Friday, April 24, 2009

A few reasons to love Thailand

Bangkok has really grown on me. Coming back from Nepal, an even more frenetic, noisy, dirty place, made me realize how good I have it here. Some more evidence:

1) My lunch today cost me $1 Canadian Dollar. I had so much I am still full (at 4:30pm) and I have some for dinner.

2) I booked a flight to Chiang Mai for a weekend. It cost me $60 Canadian Dollars to fly there, return, for the weekend. It would cost me that much to drive to Windsor and Back at home.

3) I just took a motorcycle taxi home. It took me 30 minutes to get from school home. No helmet, sun on your face, weaving in and out of traffic. So enjoyable.

Come visit!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Greetings from San Diego, California, USA.

Friendly visitor to your site planning to take a visit to Bangkok this summer. Wondering if I could ask you some travel related questions:

1) How "easy" is it to travel around the Southeast Asia region (Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Nepal, Burma, etc.)? Are there accessible planes, buses and/or trains that travel these spots regularly?

2) It sounds like you are originally from New Zealand? Did you have to take various vaccinations/shots in order to travel to Thailand? What would you caution for those who will be acclimating to the region there in terms of health. I know there's a lot posted about this, I figured I'd ask you as well! Thanks for your consideration to answer if you have a moment.

3) Are visas necessary to travel from country to country around the region there?

4) How much Thai must I cram to learn to get around? :-)


THANKS FOR SHARING ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURES! Good luck with the rest of your teaching year.

Looking forward to my visit to that part of the world!

Sincerely,

Jnaseh
isanghamahal@yahoo.com