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howsmyenglishSo... our travels continue and in a few days' time I'm leaving for Mexico, where we'll stay for a week, then go for a week to Guatemala, then come back to Mexico and travel around until we get back home in the beginning of October. And I still haven't written a word about Thailand! So, here are the traditional (third time makes it a tradition) three-good-things about the places we've visited in Thailand.
Bangkok first time:
- the first one has to be that place where my friend HK took us on our second evening in the city, it was an all-you-can-eat-and-drink-in-two-hours place, where you get two kind-of-stoves (one for meat, the other for seafood) and cook stuff on it - it was great for many reasons, the least of them being that we didn't die of alcohol poisoning afterwards;
- I really enjoyed using boats as public transportation;
- our first evening: the traffic officer, who waived us over, when we couldn't find a way to cross the street, stopped traffic just for us and walked us to the other side; the wonderful dinner we had in a street restaurant, the fact that we'd only just arrived in a country we've never been to before and weren't overwhelmed; the fact that I accidentally had some garlic during that dinner and, despite being allergic, didn't feel a thing wrong with me.
Krabi, Ao Nang:
- the pool at our hotel: it made us dream of building one ourselves one day;
- the perfect Mohitos we had at that one place, and its very nice owner, who let us go, when we found that we didn't have enough money on us (*touches head*), and believed that we'd return with it the next day (and, of course, we did);
- our last evening there, not so much the barracuda and the papaya salad (which both were great!), as the boy who worked at the restaurant and helped us decide what to take, and his beautiful smile. And the cats.
still Ao Nang, but Railay:
- the long-tail-boat journey there;
- the unbelievable beauty of it all;
- the Thai woman Natthacha, whom I should have let give me a massage. I'm remembering her name for the next time.
Koh Yao Noi:
- the speedboat journey there;
- the view from our "villa";
- the Thai woman Nana, her little restaurant with a nice outside sitting area, her cooking and nice smile, the fact that she taught me to say "thank you" and "hello" (I won't write it in transliteration, though, it would be embarrassing).
Ayutthaya:
- being picked up from the station by HK and brought to hotel by ferry; first evening there with the night market and dinner in a street place;
- the OMG unbelievable tiny sushi place with a wonderful AC and "Italian soda" after hours of looking at ruins on a hot day;
- the last evening, food from street market, eating seated on a concrete something in the middle of a round square (how does that sound?) among a crowd of people doing the same; not being afraid of doing so.
Bangkok second time:
weeeell... these things are not so much good as memorable...
- the very strange Vietnamese food we had: my husband has been to Vietnam, but has never tried or seen anything like it, and we had ordered four different things; it really was interesting, and the fact that my body rejected that food not ten minutes after we left that place is interesting, but probably says nothing about the food quality;
- staying at our hotel for hours (because, you know, the maybe-Vietnamese food...) turned out to be lucky, because there was a huge fire not far from our home (at home, not in Thailand), and our daughter was alone, and needed thinking help, instructions, support and comfort;
- Wat Arun: the going there by boat, and the fact that we first saw Ayutthaya, which has ruins of things that were meant to look like Wat Arun does. This kind of completed the circle for us.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you're interested in details!
Bangkok first time:
- the first one has to be that place where my friend HK took us on our second evening in the city, it was an all-you-can-eat-and-drink-in-two-hours place, where you get two kind-of-stoves (one for meat, the other for seafood) and cook stuff on it - it was great for many reasons, the least of them being that we didn't die of alcohol poisoning afterwards;
- I really enjoyed using boats as public transportation;
- our first evening: the traffic officer, who waived us over, when we couldn't find a way to cross the street, stopped traffic just for us and walked us to the other side; the wonderful dinner we had in a street restaurant, the fact that we'd only just arrived in a country we've never been to before and weren't overwhelmed; the fact that I accidentally had some garlic during that dinner and, despite being allergic, didn't feel a thing wrong with me.
Krabi, Ao Nang:
- the pool at our hotel: it made us dream of building one ourselves one day;
- the perfect Mohitos we had at that one place, and its very nice owner, who let us go, when we found that we didn't have enough money on us (*touches head*), and believed that we'd return with it the next day (and, of course, we did);
- our last evening there, not so much the barracuda and the papaya salad (which both were great!), as the boy who worked at the restaurant and helped us decide what to take, and his beautiful smile. And the cats.
still Ao Nang, but Railay:
- the long-tail-boat journey there;
- the unbelievable beauty of it all;
- the Thai woman Natthacha, whom I should have let give me a massage. I'm remembering her name for the next time.
Koh Yao Noi:
- the speedboat journey there;
- the view from our "villa";
- the Thai woman Nana, her little restaurant with a nice outside sitting area, her cooking and nice smile, the fact that she taught me to say "thank you" and "hello" (I won't write it in transliteration, though, it would be embarrassing).
Ayutthaya:
- being picked up from the station by HK and brought to hotel by ferry; first evening there with the night market and dinner in a street place;
- the OMG unbelievable tiny sushi place with a wonderful AC and "Italian soda" after hours of looking at ruins on a hot day;
- the last evening, food from street market, eating seated on a concrete something in the middle of a round square (how does that sound?) among a crowd of people doing the same; not being afraid of doing so.
Bangkok second time:
weeeell... these things are not so much good as memorable...
- the very strange Vietnamese food we had: my husband has been to Vietnam, but has never tried or seen anything like it, and we had ordered four different things; it really was interesting, and the fact that my body rejected that food not ten minutes after we left that place is interesting, but probably says nothing about the food quality;
- staying at our hotel for hours (because, you know, the maybe-Vietnamese food...) turned out to be lucky, because there was a huge fire not far from our home (at home, not in Thailand), and our daughter was alone, and needed thinking help, instructions, support and comfort;
- Wat Arun: the going there by boat, and the fact that we first saw Ayutthaya, which has ruins of things that were meant to look like Wat Arun does. This kind of completed the circle for us.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you're interested in details!
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Date: 2019-08-18 02:09 pm (UTC)Have you been to any of these places?
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Date: 2019-08-18 02:12 pm (UTC)I've been to Tulum, Akumal, and Cozumel. :) All of them were gorgeous/fun! :D
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Date: 2019-08-18 03:14 pm (UTC)Aren't cenotes the most wonderful things on earth? I think, up to now, Yucatan was the place on earth that fascinated me most. I can't get enough of cenotes.
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Date: 2019-08-18 03:50 pm (UTC)They aren't too far from Tulum. Cozumel is more touristy, but still fun. :) And yes, cenotes are fascinating!
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