So here we are in hot and sticky Thailand. It hasn't been a culture shock at all... and the more I think about it this place seems to be a mix of Hong Kong and Moscow... Moscow architecture and Hong Kong stalls on the streets and constant bargaining.
We're staying in the heart of dirt cheap tourist place - Chinatown... Koh Sun Road... the street is full of touristy crap and tuk tuks.
Some noteworthy things at first glance...
- lots of t-shirts being sold on the street with all sorts of things written on them. At the same time I saw a Thai guy pacing up and down the street with one that said 'Shut up bitch'... not sure whether he knew exactly what it meant or whether it was aimed at someone in particular (his wife or mother perhaps) but it did strike me as a little odd.
- both McDonalds and KFC do deliveries here... Straight away I see images of the obese children in Australia statistic rocketing off the scale
- we stayed in a 700baht a night hotel last night (which is reasonably cheap)... about $23. And the blankets which we got were nothing more than a large green towel :) And the shower (and this is in every hotel that we looked at) is strategically positioned over the toilet! So in other words the toilet is always damp and makes me shiver with thoughts of how hygenic this actually is, but no matter. We managed to locate a similar arrangement place for 380 baht and relocated this morning... and although this place is cheaper we actually get proper white sheets for bed linen.
- one thing I just love about this place is fresh fruit - there are people walking around with trolleys of frozen watermelons, pineapples, you name it... so you get a large slice of that in a platic baggie all cut up for 10 baht and it is delicious! mmm - this is almost as good as russian ice-cream in waffle cones.
- along with fruit in a bag you can also get softdrink in a bag... literally - so imagine a normal small size blue Coles bag with a straw in it and full of something cold and refreshing :)
- streets are abound with cats and dogs... both very friendly. And cats are very small in size - much smaller than either of ours which are King Kongs compared to these ones.
- tattoos... there are heaps of people with them and heaps of places offering them. If I wasn't a whimp in thinking that the places are probably very unsterile then I'd get myself one. May be a large head of a lion accross the whole of my back... and something cool like Yakuza over the top of it?... or not.
- speaking of tattoos, yesterday we saw a bunch of guys on harleys ride along the street.. and here I don't think there is a law which says that you have to put a silencer on it... it was SO incredibly loud that my ears hurt like from a rock concert. And Hell Angels must be pretty popular as I saw a couple of guys with that tattood on their backs.
- last night standing on the side of the street and eating 15 baht worth of Pad Thai which was made riht in front of us on another one of those trolleys we noticed a couple of girls in very short golden hot pants prancing back and forth along the street, and a bunch of other girls wearing very skimpy clothes... a huge asian guy in black t-shirt and gold chains approached one of the girls and gave her some sugar floss on a stick which she started eating fairly slowly and then licking her fingers in such a sexually revealing fashion that it made me even hungry for it... not.
Tomorrow we're off to Authaya Provence which has the largest island of temples around... *end transmission*
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