After the experience of the Kobra village, we wanted the last week, but rather quiet. So it went up in this most northern northeastern Thailand, to Nong Khai directly to the Lao border, and more importantly still, the impressive Mekong River. Once there came to us in a cute little guest house, which quite a few years on his back and had it sprayed its charm. Just like our sugar-sweet service, whose smile was not to resist. The place itself is absolutely ugly and dirty but otherwise in particular. In the evening played out there, the same spectacle as in many other Thai cities from even the stray dogs and the seemingly awakened cockroaches armies make the streets unsafe and somehow sinister. Nevertheless, the place was a sight that has even made it to the highlights of the Lonely Planets, the Sculpture Park was built over twenty years, he is now a more impressive collection of Buddhist scenes in some of gigantic size. So we took a tuk-tuk and started to explore the park. We discovered countless Buddhas, the largest of which was about 25 meters high and was topped by a giant multi-headed snake. In addition, many of the smaller statues were good for a chuckle, such as two embracing skeletons. The ridiculous 10 baht entrance had been invested in any case very true. However, the heat made us an hour to create pretty, so we decided to flee to better-conditioned rooms. But right on the park exit, these great clothes shops, where all the clothes with only one hit euros. When I had stocked up enough, it was finally back. In the evening we went as usual to eat, but now something has to be said. So well yes, the Thai cuisine may be in part, so gruesome, however, is the service. Here are some examples: We order two Cokes and to move instead of the two bottles on our table, they will be placed on the next table and a waiter, in its discretion, refilled. It is not, however, as we thought, so topped that everyone gets a bottle, no, there is simply where the first to drank his glass, the rest purely tilted and the other gets nothing at all! Or then there are waiters, the wait is not only pushing ten minutes next to the table until you choose has, but also those who remember anything, exchange Beverage, glasses, plates and real food and then we start to click with pen drive you crazy. Besides this main dishes are sometimes served with distinction twenty minutes of each other, which paralyzes all communication at the table, because one is always busy loop to be either cold or boiling hot food down fast. Besides, we now have calculation errors and such jokes, making the dinner to the real torment, because if you took some twenty minutes to explain to the taxi driver where you want to go, you have usually little desire that the same procedure still times carried out with false invoices. Anyway, other countries, different customs ... stood next on our to-do list going to be a ride on the largest Southeast Asian river, the Mekong. We then made a one-hour sunset tour, which could not have been more romantic. The Mekong is indeed dirty, but we were rewarded with stunning images and have the certainty of at least thirty seconds in Laos to be the contact of the boat. Here we arranged to meet with three Canadians for the evening, the Matthi spoke with the disarming statement: "Qu'est-que vous voudrais faire aujourd'hui?"
Instead of a nice evening to have the three went to bed at ten, however, what we should not interfere, however, we had long ago started with a Swiss woman and her daughter charmed a conversation. As the little girl was only five but had the two at some point away and so it was that we met Charles. Charles is a native of Ami, but lives for ages in Thailand. With him, we discussed not only Günter Grass confessed to the Waffen SS, but also the installation of the Jewish state and what else you may tell if you drank too much Mekong (the whiskey, not someone think we would have on the river passed). Eventually we gave to Charles, that in his guest house could stay in Chiang Mai and we still want to go there anyway, we are already looking forward to seeing our friend almost seventy years (estimate). The next day we also still in non Khai and could make even a few young elephants that ran through the streets. Then we went back by bus to Khon Kaen, where we learned that our bus got on to the next destination, only towards the Clock Night evening. Suboptimal, because we still had to pay a full night in a hotel, even though we checked out at 19:00 clock, there is not only to put the full price, only the less useful for us Bum-Bum deal, in which a room for There can be two hours, for whatever. Then then were seven hours by bus on the program. Since Thai buses usually have no free space left and you can fold the seats back was infinite, the ride less comfortable. However, one got a little lunch box, with a mini bag of chips, a bottle of water and disgusting Pappwaffeln, net value: three to four pence.
In Sukhothai, the first capital of the Kingdom, we arrived at about 2:30 at night. However, we return here in a beautiful bungalow, including cable television, so this morning but we could actually watch Fashion TV. At least it is better zuzugucken emaciated Eastern European women strutting in as be drawn to one of the many Thai music channel in, in order to find Karaoke and still runs along the text. This "form" of music is, at least stimulate our Aoke never.
Basically we visit the historical park in the city tomorrow, a huge temple complex. Let's see whether it can compete with Angkor and otherwise, wants us to two fantastic weeks, before we dwell among you again!
sign of the other kind
sculptures
snake Buddha
skeletons
Mekong
little Anna from the sweaters Ländle
Charles!
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