April 27, 2009
April 24, 2009
April 22, 2009
Tuk-Tuk
I wont have the chance now...
But if I ever return to Thailand Im going to buy a tuk-tuk...
Park RIGHT IN FRONT of the first Tuk Tuk driver I see who got some passengers and is ready to drive off; Lets call him Rahmed.
Me: "Hello how are you do you need Tuk Tuk?"
Rahmed: "No thank you, I am a-"
Me: "I show you all the temples, what you wanna see? Angkor wat,wat phramad, wat suharassy, the markets and elephants?"
Rahmed: "No,"
Me: "I show you 8 temples for special price. Special prize for you, just for you, 800 Baht."
Rahmed starts looking angry... and just a slight touch of red...
Rahmed: "I call police now ok?"
Me: "Aaaah, you from Thailand, I hear your accent... I love Thailand, BANGKOOOOK!! Thailand is my friend and special friends get special prize.... 700 Baht for 3 hours temples"!!
Silence...
Rahmeds passengers start murmuring...
Me: "Hello my friends! Do you need tuk-tuk?"
Them: "We are in one allready, if you cou-"
Me: "He is no good driver! Last week I saw him drive over a cute puppy... and he didnt even wear his seatbelt."
Them whispering to each other.
Me: "And... and his mother does it with PIGS!"
Ahmed starts walking towards my tuk-tuk.
I slowly, slowly drive backward keeping just, just out of reach of Ahmed.
The passengers get out of his tuk-tuk and walk off.
Ahmed: "Look what youve done! Customers gone! What are my children going to eat now?"
Me: "Rice bitch, like every other night."
Ahmed drives off, of course I follow him, to his house, so I know where he lives...
Ringing on his doorbell at 4 am: "DO YOU NEED TUK-TUK?"
Because there are more tuk-tuks out there then I can herass alone I would need to start a tuk-tuk business. Hiring some staff for 20 baht an hour. Then go driving with groups of 3, completely surrounding the first tut-tuk you see out there.
Me: "Sir, sir, you need tuk-tuk?"
By now they know me...
Noote: "Get lost, I am IN a fucking tuk-tuk."
Me: "Yeah, but you kinda cant drive to anywhere, youre sort of stuck..."
Noote: "That is because YOU are in my way, get lost."
Me: "Are you sure you dont want a tuk-tuk? I have cheaper rates then you."
Anyway... enough day dreaming.
Songkran
Songkran, like I said, is the Thai new year, celebrated greatly throughout the country with water fights. I find it really really good. Celebrating with the whole city on the streets for four days. Mile after mile where people stand near the river getting buckets of water to throw over each other. Sometimes adding big blocks of ice for the "chill" effect and everyone is (forced) to join in. Either you get a water gun and get your revenge or you are a passuve bystander, you will get wet.
There are as much people throwing water from the back of vans, trucks, 4wd, and scooters as there are standing on the street and it starts from early to about 6 pm. I spend most of the 4 days roaming around Chiang Mai with a watergun, "wishing" everyone a good new year, hehehe.
But if I ever return to Thailand Im going to buy a tuk-tuk...
Park RIGHT IN FRONT of the first Tuk Tuk driver I see who got some passengers and is ready to drive off; Lets call him Rahmed.
Me: "Hello how are you do you need Tuk Tuk?"
Rahmed: "No thank you, I am a-"
Me: "I show you all the temples, what you wanna see? Angkor wat,wat phramad, wat suharassy, the markets and elephants?"
Rahmed: "No,"
Me: "I show you 8 temples for special price. Special prize for you, just for you, 800 Baht."
Rahmed starts looking angry... and just a slight touch of red...
Rahmed: "I call police now ok?"
Me: "Aaaah, you from Thailand, I hear your accent... I love Thailand, BANGKOOOOK!! Thailand is my friend and special friends get special prize.... 700 Baht for 3 hours temples"!!
Silence...
Rahmeds passengers start murmuring...
Me: "Hello my friends! Do you need tuk-tuk?"
Them: "We are in one allready, if you cou-"
Me: "He is no good driver! Last week I saw him drive over a cute puppy... and he didnt even wear his seatbelt."
Them whispering to each other.
Me: "And... and his mother does it with PIGS!"
Ahmed starts walking towards my tuk-tuk.
I slowly, slowly drive backward keeping just, just out of reach of Ahmed.
The passengers get out of his tuk-tuk and walk off.
Ahmed: "Look what youve done! Customers gone! What are my children going to eat now?"
Me: "Rice bitch, like every other night."
Ahmed drives off, of course I follow him, to his house, so I know where he lives...
Ringing on his doorbell at 4 am: "DO YOU NEED TUK-TUK?"
Because there are more tuk-tuks out there then I can herass alone I would need to start a tuk-tuk business. Hiring some staff for 20 baht an hour. Then go driving with groups of 3, completely surrounding the first tut-tuk you see out there.
Me: "Sir, sir, you need tuk-tuk?"
By now they know me...
Noote: "Get lost, I am IN a fucking tuk-tuk."
Me: "Yeah, but you kinda cant drive to anywhere, youre sort of stuck..."
Noote: "That is because YOU are in my way, get lost."
Me: "Are you sure you dont want a tuk-tuk? I have cheaper rates then you."
Anyway... enough day dreaming.
Songkran
Songkran, like I said, is the Thai new year, celebrated greatly throughout the country with water fights. I find it really really good. Celebrating with the whole city on the streets for four days. Mile after mile where people stand near the river getting buckets of water to throw over each other. Sometimes adding big blocks of ice for the "chill" effect and everyone is (forced) to join in. Either you get a water gun and get your revenge or you are a passuve bystander, you will get wet.
There are as much people throwing water from the back of vans, trucks, 4wd, and scooters as there are standing on the street and it starts from early to about 6 pm. I spend most of the 4 days roaming around Chiang Mai with a watergun, "wishing" everyone a good new year, hehehe.
April 12, 2009
April 10, 2009
Thailand
The flights
Were exhausting, with 2 stopovers, no sleep the day before...
I spend some time at the airport, because I arrived at 23:50 and didnt want to get stuck in the city not being able to find a place to sleep. So after drinking some coffee, some reading and 2 hours sleep I took the bus to Bangkok where I arrived at 6:00.
Bangkok
Is great; I expected it to be a world of difference compared to Australia and it is. It is huge; while it would be allmost impossible to get lost in Australia, I could get lost in Bangkok for the reason that I dont read and speak Thai, and a very very small amount of the Thai people I met so far is able to utter a few words of Engrish.
Further it is a lot of opposites, beautifull buildings and temples as well as poor buildings with tinnen roofs. Beautifull water and parks as well as garbage piled up at a lot of streets. A lot of 4wd and other expensice cars, tuktuks, busses, taxis... I think you dont need a drivers license here to get on the road. Crossing the road feels like frogger; great fun... too bad you have only one life.
Markets
Everywhere, really everywhere are markets; Im glad Im not here with my mother and/or sister... hehehe. It is that I dont really need anything and can walk past allmost any stall without standing still, but there are So Much Stalls... labyrints of them... all selling cheap, really cheap cooked food, fruit, watches, clothing, alive fishies, lots of meat... its fun even for me just to walk around.
I was reluctant to try the food on the streets but Im getting the hang of it. Alltough Im not sure if I eat more healthier then in Australia; alltough all the food is fresh, Im not allways sure what it is that is fresh.... But so far no problems :) Actually, so far all the food really tastes great.
The only thing annoying here
Is that Im white... Ive walked past a few places where I felt just a little out of place, being the onlz white face and some people staring at me a little... what are zou (btw, when I tzpe a y on the kezboard I get an z, and vice versa, so from now on a y is a z and a z is y, ok?) doing here? But im having fun and im still alive. Wheeeee!
And suddenly I have lots of 'friends' with me being the walking ATM... can get a bit annoying when they try and try and try and try.
I bought a train ticket
After a day of walking randomly around in Bangkok I just picked a place on the map and bought a train ticket to it (about 30 euro cents for a 1.5 hour train ride... damn) I choose Ayutthaya. Alltough it is beautifull; a city surrounded by water and about 20 temples... I encounter here what I tried to avoid in Australia: Tourists, theyre just like flies, allways there where you dont want them to be annoying you. If I would stay a bit longer I would make sure I was able to travel indepently to get out of the tourist scene, but...
Chang Mai
13 to 15 april New Year is celebrated here, and apparantly the place to be (and the place Ill be) is Chang Mai. So Im choosing another city to go tomorrow, and the day after I want to arrive in Chang Mai to partaaaayyyyy....
Were exhausting, with 2 stopovers, no sleep the day before...
I spend some time at the airport, because I arrived at 23:50 and didnt want to get stuck in the city not being able to find a place to sleep. So after drinking some coffee, some reading and 2 hours sleep I took the bus to Bangkok where I arrived at 6:00.
Bangkok
Is great; I expected it to be a world of difference compared to Australia and it is. It is huge; while it would be allmost impossible to get lost in Australia, I could get lost in Bangkok for the reason that I dont read and speak Thai, and a very very small amount of the Thai people I met so far is able to utter a few words of Engrish.
Further it is a lot of opposites, beautifull buildings and temples as well as poor buildings with tinnen roofs. Beautifull water and parks as well as garbage piled up at a lot of streets. A lot of 4wd and other expensice cars, tuktuks, busses, taxis... I think you dont need a drivers license here to get on the road. Crossing the road feels like frogger; great fun... too bad you have only one life.
Markets
Everywhere, really everywhere are markets; Im glad Im not here with my mother and/or sister... hehehe. It is that I dont really need anything and can walk past allmost any stall without standing still, but there are So Much Stalls... labyrints of them... all selling cheap, really cheap cooked food, fruit, watches, clothing, alive fishies, lots of meat... its fun even for me just to walk around.
I was reluctant to try the food on the streets but Im getting the hang of it. Alltough Im not sure if I eat more healthier then in Australia; alltough all the food is fresh, Im not allways sure what it is that is fresh.... But so far no problems :) Actually, so far all the food really tastes great.
The only thing annoying here
Is that Im white... Ive walked past a few places where I felt just a little out of place, being the onlz white face and some people staring at me a little... what are zou (btw, when I tzpe a y on the kezboard I get an z, and vice versa, so from now on a y is a z and a z is y, ok?) doing here? But im having fun and im still alive. Wheeeee!
And suddenly I have lots of 'friends' with me being the walking ATM... can get a bit annoying when they try and try and try and try.
I bought a train ticket
After a day of walking randomly around in Bangkok I just picked a place on the map and bought a train ticket to it (about 30 euro cents for a 1.5 hour train ride... damn) I choose Ayutthaya. Alltough it is beautifull; a city surrounded by water and about 20 temples... I encounter here what I tried to avoid in Australia: Tourists, theyre just like flies, allways there where you dont want them to be annoying you. If I would stay a bit longer I would make sure I was able to travel indepently to get out of the tourist scene, but...
Chang Mai
13 to 15 april New Year is celebrated here, and apparantly the place to be (and the place Ill be) is Chang Mai. So Im choosing another city to go tomorrow, and the day after I want to arrive in Chang Mai to partaaaayyyyy....
April 8, 2009
Thailand
After 3 flights I arrived safely in Bangkok.
And after sleeping for 13 hours Im 热阿 。/
Eggrr, Im ready to go explore, bai :)
And after sleeping for 13 hours Im 热阿 。/
Eggrr, Im ready to go explore, bai :)
April 5, 2009
Away from this hell-hole
Not converted, yet
Don`t worry guys, I`m still converted to Krishnaity.
In fact...
I`ve been "kicked out"... hehehe
After a few weeks at the Krishna farm with regular trips away to beaches other backpacker places, party`s and Byron Bay I was asked to leave. Mooooooo
The reason was to make room for other backpackers to give them a chance to visit the farm as well, but I also overheard some arguments about "playing non-deviotional music" (fe: Pink Floyd), "the backpackers not paying any rent" and me not wanting to work for someone who wanted to organise to wwoofers. Anyway, I was welcome to come back anytime and saying goodbye to a few people I spent a lot of time with was nice, so it wasnt that bad. I really enjoyed my time there.
Brunswick Heads
The last couple of days I spent in Brunswick Heads, a non-tourist town next to the sea. I visited Siegfried and his SAE schoolmates, playing a lot of music, ping pong, chess and simultanously enjoying the huge amount of rain.
Thailand and Home
And now I`m in Brisbane, waiting for my flight to leave to Taipei, then a one hour wait, and then I`m in Thailand. Alltough I`ve been in Australia for allmost a year it doesn`t feel that bad to leave. I`m looking forward to traveling in Thailand for two weeks and also looking forward to being back in the Netherlands again. Alltough I still don`t know how it will work out when I get back home; I`m sure it will.
I don`t have any travel plans for Thailand yet. I`ll just arrive there, put all my excess luggage into storage for two weeks and then start traveling with only a small backpack and my guitar (if it arrives in one piece...)
Don`t worry guys, I`m still converted to Krishnaity.
In fact...
I`ve been "kicked out"... hehehe
After a few weeks at the Krishna farm with regular trips away to beaches other backpacker places, party`s and Byron Bay I was asked to leave. Mooooooo
The reason was to make room for other backpackers to give them a chance to visit the farm as well, but I also overheard some arguments about "playing non-deviotional music" (fe: Pink Floyd), "the backpackers not paying any rent" and me not wanting to work for someone who wanted to organise to wwoofers. Anyway, I was welcome to come back anytime and saying goodbye to a few people I spent a lot of time with was nice, so it wasnt that bad. I really enjoyed my time there.
Brunswick Heads
The last couple of days I spent in Brunswick Heads, a non-tourist town next to the sea. I visited Siegfried and his SAE schoolmates, playing a lot of music, ping pong, chess and simultanously enjoying the huge amount of rain.
Thailand and Home
And now I`m in Brisbane, waiting for my flight to leave to Taipei, then a one hour wait, and then I`m in Thailand. Alltough I`ve been in Australia for allmost a year it doesn`t feel that bad to leave. I`m looking forward to traveling in Thailand for two weeks and also looking forward to being back in the Netherlands again. Alltough I still don`t know how it will work out when I get back home; I`m sure it will.
I don`t have any travel plans for Thailand yet. I`ll just arrive there, put all my excess luggage into storage for two weeks and then start traveling with only a small backpack and my guitar (if it arrives in one piece...)
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