19/02/2007 - BANGKOK IS AMAZING...

 

...as I have mentioned before.  Here some impressions:
Cats are incredibly small. Not only skinny, but small. I thought that I had watched a 2 weeks old kitten for a while, until I saw its kitten coming.
Thais love eating all sorts of colourful things. I started trying out whatever crosses my way, but I have to admit, that I had to throw away nearly full cups with -?- twice...


Vehicles here are not only loud and exhaust-intensive, they are beautiful and used for no-matter-what. See this cocktailbar:


His Majority, King Blumenkohl is depicted (abgebildet) everywhere: on traffic islands, in hotels, on skyscrapers, in the bus, next to the train timetable...

I would probably be shot by the Thai CIA if they knew what Blumenkohl means in German.
Everything here is "same same - but different". This is not only a slogan to be found on Tourist T-Shirts, it is the prase I have heard -looking for a room - nearly as often as
HEY YOU, WHERE YOU GO? This really is a heavy test on my nerves. I cannot walk 15 meters without hearing that sentence, mostly from 'teksi'- or tuk tuk-drivers, but also from 'flying vendors' or anybody else. After getting really mad, I chose the 'doing as if I heard nothing'- method, folling by giving answers like 'straight', 'nowhere' or 'insane'...
You better not mess around with Budda. Well, you would not, but just in case, they put up signs for that everywhere... This is the biiiiiig budda I visited today in the famous WAT NU? (german insider) aeh - Wat Poh. Check out the Fotoalbum to see people as a scale to it.


Thais are rude. Nobody ever tell me again that Americans are superficial (oberflaechlich) and Thais are friendly. I DO NOT AGREE. Maybe there are some superficial Americans, and probably there are some friendly Thais, but most of the time not around me. The times when white people were interesting not only for their money are over. They do not even make the effort to hide their frowning face (misbilligender Blick lt. leo) behind their fake smile until one leaves. I guess, mass tourism just spoilt them. This of course is my personnal oppinion and impression, I guess other travellers might see it differently.

After all these impressions I figured, I am ripe to visit a new country. Well, I bought a train ticket to go to Laos tomorrow. And a map. It is called "Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam". So, stay tuned for news. ;-)

Of course, I uploaded new pictures into a second Thailand-folder. Somehow I screwed up again and they are in reverse chronological order. I am sorry. I tried hard.

 

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