Koh Pha Rain
By the time I left the internet cafe is had started raining again.
To answer Beau's question - I'm not sure what role Snoop Dogg plays in the Snoop Dogg Boat Tour. There is a Reggae Boat Tour and my guess is someone was like, "Yo, hip hop needs to be represented. I'm gonna start the Snoop Dogg Boat Tour!" The Reggae Boat Tour was all full and the other option had a boring name, that's why we went with Snoop's. They all go to the same places, do the same things, and cost the same price.
In addition to Australian teenagers are more Isrealis than I think I've ever seen before. The computer that I'm typing on right now has English and Hebrew characters. There are a ton of signs in Hebrew also. Very unexpected.
Personally, I'm not digging this place too much. I finally got into Thailand but now this doesn't even feel like Thailand! There aren't any red pick ups, no tuk tuks, no wats (temples), no monks walking around, the people working at the stores don't even try to make you feel like you're in Thailand. At least in Chiang Mai they would say "korp kun kah/kap" (thank you, female/male) when you bought something and you could try to say it back and feel like you've learned something. Here they say thank you. Boooring. And internet is a lot more expensive. In Chiang Mai an hour is 30 baht ($0.75), here it's 120 baht ($3). I don't know if I can stay here the whole time. Besides the one day boat tours there isn't really anything to do. I think you're supposed to sit on the beach all day. I'm having a hard time getting into that. And then if it's raining you sit and watch movies all day. That was the plan today but the movie I wanted to see turned out to be a bootleg and I couldn't hear what they were saying at all. They turn the closed captioning on but the captions are usually way way way way off. The bad captions are sometimes more entertaining than the movies.
So my mission today is to find a tour group to go to Laos with. It would also be really nice to just have all the transportation/lodging/food/attractions done for me. And maybe I would meet people???
I think I'll reserve the last week or two to go back to the elephant park. I'm afraid to go back too early and then not want to leave or do anything else for the rest of my time. It happens all the time with that place. A couple who had planned on staying for three days ended up staying for 2 weeks, left, and then went back for Christmas/New Years.
I uploaded some new pictures to Chiang Mai set on flickr. I tried to do Cambodia and Koh Pha Ngan but this computer is also really slow. Soon I will find decent computer! But here's my new hat - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wigramroad/77974181/in/set-1620680/
Ok, peace out everyone.
To answer Beau's question - I'm not sure what role Snoop Dogg plays in the Snoop Dogg Boat Tour. There is a Reggae Boat Tour and my guess is someone was like, "Yo, hip hop needs to be represented. I'm gonna start the Snoop Dogg Boat Tour!" The Reggae Boat Tour was all full and the other option had a boring name, that's why we went with Snoop's. They all go to the same places, do the same things, and cost the same price.
In addition to Australian teenagers are more Isrealis than I think I've ever seen before. The computer that I'm typing on right now has English and Hebrew characters. There are a ton of signs in Hebrew also. Very unexpected.
Personally, I'm not digging this place too much. I finally got into Thailand but now this doesn't even feel like Thailand! There aren't any red pick ups, no tuk tuks, no wats (temples), no monks walking around, the people working at the stores don't even try to make you feel like you're in Thailand. At least in Chiang Mai they would say "korp kun kah/kap" (thank you, female/male) when you bought something and you could try to say it back and feel like you've learned something. Here they say thank you. Boooring. And internet is a lot more expensive. In Chiang Mai an hour is 30 baht ($0.75), here it's 120 baht ($3). I don't know if I can stay here the whole time. Besides the one day boat tours there isn't really anything to do. I think you're supposed to sit on the beach all day. I'm having a hard time getting into that. And then if it's raining you sit and watch movies all day. That was the plan today but the movie I wanted to see turned out to be a bootleg and I couldn't hear what they were saying at all. They turn the closed captioning on but the captions are usually way way way way off. The bad captions are sometimes more entertaining than the movies.
So my mission today is to find a tour group to go to Laos with. It would also be really nice to just have all the transportation/lodging/food/attractions done for me. And maybe I would meet people???
I think I'll reserve the last week or two to go back to the elephant park. I'm afraid to go back too early and then not want to leave or do anything else for the rest of my time. It happens all the time with that place. A couple who had planned on staying for three days ended up staying for 2 weeks, left, and then went back for Christmas/New Years.
I uploaded some new pictures to Chiang Mai set on flickr. I tried to do Cambodia and Koh Pha Ngan but this computer is also really slow. Soon I will find decent computer! But here's my new hat - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wigramroad/77974181/in/set-1620680/
Ok, peace out everyone.
posted by beth at 7:38 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Beth,
I love you in the hat!! I can see you parading around the states in it. I hope you find your Laotin travelers..mostly, I can't wait to hear more about the elephants, the 39 plus dogs and the pick-ups.
stay safe-have fun,
Love,
Barbara
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