I Love Thailand: Travelling around
Thailand Slide Show, Part 2
(The author before Kaw Maeo and Kaw Nuu --cat & mouse islands-- in southern Thailand)
©1997-2001 Martin Kraemer
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Travelling around
On every larger bus stop, people selling drinks, newspapers or chewing gum
enter the bus, offer their things and leave again on the other end of the bus.
When you travel by train, you should not miss the chance to make a
ride in the third class with one of the diesel trains. It's impressing:
on the train you have the choice to try many thai dishes, all neatly
prepared and wrapped in natural (``biodegradable'') banana leaves
with simple throwaway bamboo chopsticks. And it's ever so tasty!
Waiting for the midday heat to pass... (in Hua Hin)
The "real" Floating Market in /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/, three hours from Bangkok.
The peak time at the Floating Market in /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/ is early,
long before the busses loaded with tourists from Bangkok arrive.
One of my favorites... At /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/
When you head north on the train to visit the old capitals, you have
plenty of time to enjoy the incredibly green rice fields in the plains
of central Thailand.
Usenet reader McCherv@aol.com
wrote me about this picture:
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I particularly like image #0083. The woman in the market. The sign says
Mangda- 4 baht each. I remember catching them in Nakhon Phanom Province
in 1969 and giving them to villagers. I always thought they were a meal of
last resort. But now I see they are 4 baht each. I never would have
thought of them as being so expensive.
Let's visit a Temple Fair: you'll find everything like on a normal
fair, but then they also sell traditional medicine to cure all kinds
of diseases.
And of course, at the temple fairs you'll find Buddha amulets in all
sizes and shapes. These amulets are known to help against accidents,
even against being shot at(!).
©1997-2001 Martin Kraemer
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