When you get to a city, the first impression of the place depends a lot on coming. So, contrary to what some believe, Bangkok seemed to us a clean, orderly, modern ... to quiet. But coming from Mumbai is likely to be a hasty impression.
to prove we were not, our objective was clear and had nothing to do with a big city. We went directly to the southeast of Thailand, a town called Pequenho Trat, where we carry out our cultural immersion. Thais have seemed a friendly and smiling people, but a little histrionic when speaking. And that is their language includes a previously unknown variable, the intonation, according to the tone (ascending, descending, flat ...) a word means different things. As the talks are an endless number of ups and downs, it would seem that they are discussing all day, if it were not usually smile.
They love to eat, and they do all the time in hundreds of posts to flood the streets, or special outdoor markets where people are at any time. We went to dinner at one of them, and after two laps seeing signs in Thai, without knowing to ask or how to do, just using the old technique of pointing the finger at a few pieces of chicken hanging on a post and receive in return a rich bowl of soup noodles with trips, a success. continue south, because we actually had planned to reach the beach, and for that we went to the island of Koh Chang near the Cambodian border. As almost all the Thai islands, is far from a paradise lost, as almost everywhere has come development. But fortunately there is still room for everyone, for those who like the luxurious resorts with all amenities, and those who prefer more natural places but a little uncomfortable.
In just the last one of us, not only because it had enough charm to sleep in a bungalow near the sea, made from four branches of palm trees, no more than a light bulb and a mosquito net, but also because it was terribly expensive. Here you see some of the rooms, the shower was very currinho banho (the shower is based on the frozen water buckets of the pylon). The terrace of the hostel was the best, chill-out style on the rocks, it was a pleasure to dine overlooking the sea and spend hours in the shadow of more heat of the day.
here agree with a friend of Dani's his time in Bath, Eva, whom I had met in Prague (this girl squirms .) He now lives in Goa, but unfortunately we could not find there. With her great desktop we talking about the divine and human, sharing our views and knowledge about India and Thailand. These discussions occasionally joined other recent known as you can see in the picture. With them we went through a Full Moon Party, but the original is in Koh Pha Ngan (a megaparty on the beach that started as a celebration of cumpleanhos them out of hand a few hippies in the 89), now There's one in every beach in Thailand and is an excuse to phase in electronic-paced beach illuminated by the fire jugglers Thai experts. To me it's the rave parties I never was really excited, but I guess it has its point.
The beach where vegetate called "Lonely Beach" was not lonely at all but was fine. There we spent a few days with no more concern to decide that we wanted the fruit smoothie or an island wanted to go snorkelling.
Koh Chang is located in a natural marine park, and I extranha, because I dare to say that we have seen here a variety of corals on a par with the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It is a pleasure to "walk" for those fields of coral amazing colors and shapes bizarre. Animal life, though not as varied as Australia, it was not bad and loved above all swim in huge schools of fish trumpet their elongated bodies, almost transparent. Here you see John in action, that day we fell suddenly and for 5 minutes, the deluge, at first only John was shooting water, while the Thais, who generally are not very good swimmers and like to snorkel with a life jacket, he looked frightened face.
addition to the beaches of the coast, the second attraction of the island is inside Mountains covered by rain forests. To know we have a walk on the back of an elephant, there are plenty in Koh Chang, in fact, the word means elephant Chang (Koh is an island). The Elephant Camp partake of a rather special session banho, elephant skin is the most rugged I've seen in my life and his hair incredibly hard, but I love brush head and shower with it myself.
was wrong not to give him some bananas that quickly disappeared into his mouth. The ride however, and therefore we do not get excited, it was supposed that this was a fairly didactic and where many of the animals concerned. But we seemed a mere business, as we got out of "Cindy", others jumped on the next trip and the treatment of animals did not seem the best. Elephants were not at all happy because they were not allowed to stop and eat. Could only, from time to time, stopping to scratch against a tree, which seemed to be out to break the onslaught of the animal. I'm afraid this will only let him do it because they think it's funny for the tourists. However, the landscape through which we walked was splendid, and see elephants near to charm us.
Since not all could be resting, we leave the beach to return to Bangkok, which we did by the way in a bus decorated like the home of a Disney princess, inexplicable. This time we found that, indeed, is not the quietest place in the world. Especially when we went to the huge market in Chatuchak weekend, where we spent hours wandering through a heat of death among stalls selling everything. Another example is the tourist street by excellence, Khao San Road, where the novel begins Beach, which DiCaprio plays in the film. This place if a bit frantic full of business, hostels, European-style bars and finally, much much abroad. Tais here are the only sellers. A site not recommended. 
The best way to get around Bangkok is by boat on the River. They have the same problems that multicolored taxis traverse the city (most of them, continuing the Disney style, are fuchsia). By boat we travel to the Grand Palace that is in the midst of a huge room full of temples with the most brilliant and colorful decoration I've ever seen. All buildings were either gold with multicolored mirrors or china facts (say) with bits of old bone china cups. 
A great place is the temple of the Emerald Buddha, which resembles a little Manneken Pis Belgian, and not just because his tamanho is totally disappointing, but because they put outfits according to the season, just that these are gold no less (in the photo you see with your summer suit.) The temple is beautiful, without an undecorated square centimeter inside and out.
decorative After this binge, we went to Wat Pho, another temple grounds where they have the largest number of Thai Buddhas, sitting, standing, as well as the largest reclining Buddha there . This is the most impressive, though not the most beautiful, because it is so large that it occupies the entire building is barely visible in all its magnitude. As you can see we hardly fit into the picture. 
The Culinary it was time, we must emphasize that whole range of stalls selling delicious fruit (some still do not have dared to try it), Moorish kebabs of all kinds, fish and noodles, many noodles. The Pad Thai is one of the most common dishes, noodles with vegetables and meat or seafood in any place will sell you one for 25 baht (about half a euro), good and cheap. There are also lots of fish and dried seafood (usually sun-dried), creepy look and smell (you know I hate these things) but nothing can be perfect.
As a curiosity, we confirmed that Coke tastes the same regardless of container, and as in India here's Mirinda, but although we do drink a lot of illusion The richest remembered.
Our Pequenho visit Thailand ends for now, but return to find something more to the north. For now we will know Pequenho parentheses to Vietnam and Cambodia, but that's another story.
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