Hi everyone!
this is a bit of an experiment so I'm not promising anything really thrilling.. Just a place for me to write some of our experiences during our trip, and maybe if you want to read, share with you all....
so .. Here we go... To everyone, anyone - enjoy.
We started off in Bangkok - the closest place to hell... Weather wise... and as though this is the dry season (indeed no rain) and well its December... it is hot as hell...
like I wrote in my first email we did the usual, the grand palace, and what phra kao and what poh, went to the MBK and the siam square area...
(and couldn't find the Cinabonn.. they must have closed it :(... ) and to lumphini park...
I found it relatively easy to get used to the thai way of speaking english and to the food and feeling a bit like your getting ripped off all the time but.. well. all in all.. bangkok being bangkok was pretty much ok... no major criseses... hila was a bit stressed but I think she got used to it pretty fast...
we ordered tickets to India (madras) and to our surprise there were barely any seats left to the 5th of Jan.!!! I guess a lot of indians are flying around the new years.. !?!?!?! and we tried a lot of places for tickets and got such a diversity of prices that when we finally got a relatively cheap one we thought we were being ripped off... well.. especially since the next day when we came to pay he added another 1500 baht to the price under some weird combination of tax and it being the high season... dunno... you never get the the full assurance that you understand them completely...
this guy we bought the tickets from was called.. no other then "Mr. Thai"... and he had a few fingers missing... all in all he could count to six.. :)... (using his fingers I mean). I guess he pissed someone off or had an accident..!?!? we decided to go for it. he promised the tickets the next day.. and guess what ? he didn't have them the next day and we wanted to go down to the islands that same day...?!?!?!
he said something like "oh.. I'm sorry.. but its a holiday...the ticket office closed... so sorry.." like the crap the tuktuk drivers give you when you go to the grand palace... but he assured us that the tickets were ok and he promised to scan them the next day and send us the ticket scans by email... after much deliberations we decided to settle with it..(especially after we left a 1000 baht deposit the day before).. well.. after getting to the islands and waiting a day.. we got the ticket info and confirmed it with Air India.. (his scanner broke down so he typed the ticket info by hand..) so we have tickets on the 5th of Jan. mom & dad - you can write that down in the itinerary :).
(for any future reference - BKK -> MAA is 240$ - but I bet its lower when your not so close to the new years..)
well.. what can I say.. we are down in the islands now.. Koh Payam... the trip down here was ok.. the thai VIP busses are comfy and pampering (they hand out all sorts of food and wet wipers and shit..) (450 baht to ranong though we found out we could by them direct from the bus company for around 380.. )
after around 8 hrs bus drive we arrived in ranong at 5:30 am and the boat was sched. to 9:30... so we spent 4 hours with 2 auzies and a swiss guy obsessed with death, prostitutes, god and his ex wife... oh and about a million mosquitoes... then a 2 hrs boat ride to the island...
and now we are here.. on koh payam... its just.. paradise...
ill write about the island in my next post and pics will be added when we get to a place we can develop them...
please add posts !! I really want to hear your comments!!
catch ya l8r ...
love to you all
the one the only Morphhh Sleazy.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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6 comments:
Sound very fishy this thing with the tickets no?
hope it all works out!
probably alot of tourists for new years ...
its nice to read this blog thing
and yours is funny so it made me smile
keep having fun!
is Hila posting a blog too?
neely&shlomi
Hi guys
it all sounds really great and i wish i was there with you insted of here working and getting angry at the new house fuckups and the getting stressed this month to take a maskanta until the end of the month.
i wish i too could fly away from here for a while!!
this park looks great- i got into the site dad wrote, tigers and turantulas - scary
but the riding elefants sounds a lot of fun
im dying to see pictures already
after the park are you flying to India?
why doesn't hila write anything?
your stories are very funny and make it very real and easy to imagine, as if we were there with you almost.
it would be nice to see the same events in her eyes too
especialy since its her first time in the far east
tell her to write sometimes in your blogg
write soon and have fun
neely&shlomi
Suki&Clara send their lickings and whoooos
Hi guys.
How are you doing? Any news?
Tommy and Dalit
That post was the best thing i have read in my life - you guys are
soooo coool
you must be americanwith your writing attitude open your soul and join the world not for the world tojoin your need or your background from your comment you sound like you din,t really see the world just passing through how sad and a waste of time
I was in koh payarm on jan/09 for 10 days lovely stayed in bungalow call palmbeach laea tap oun on ao yai beach the bungalow was on the hill over looking the view of all ao yai beach surrounded by forest with my next door friends the hornbill birds gived me a wakeup call everymorning lovely quiet with m own private beach right next from the bungalow the owner didn,t speaked much english but we got by they,re lovely made me feeled like syayed at a friend,s home his sister cooked me a vevy nice locale southern food delicious but the bungalow doesn,t fit for old people caused theyhad to walk up the hill to the bungalow but it,s worth it the view up there was beautiful if you have a chance to go there try the palmbeach bungalow at the southnern end of the beach quite unspoil feel like koh samui 25 years ago see you around this world so long GRASSHOPPER
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