Thailand - Bangkok & The South
Right, so, we headed from Laos to Bangkok and met up with Ingrid's Father and Sister who came to visit us for 12 days. Good Times, always great to have family around.
Bangkok had dozens of great things to see and they're all conveniently located in a single block! It's the Grand Palace and The Great Golden other Things. Whatever. The highlight is a MASSIVE reclining Buddha. Just look at this guy, and some thought I have a big head!
At the foot of this gargantuan tribute to the enlightened are his holinesses' Mother-of-Pearl inlaid feet. It was only AFTER this photo that Adam had the "Don't poke fun at the deity" sign pointed out to him. My Bad! (No joke - "Poke Fun at the diety" was there, in text, next to the world's largest Golden Buddha. Gotta love it)
Just outside the door of the Temple of the Reclining Buddah one enters the Magical garden of disturbing Gnomes.
It's just Creepy.
And if the Garden of disturbing Gnomes doesn't get you, these guys will.
Admittedly, these Demons are pretty cool to look at and they probably won't give my nightmares the way that bug-eyed gnomes' gonna.
After the gauntlet of creepy Gnomes and Demons , the Thai's throw this guy at you! Apparently we're all destined to be consumed by the Maori tattooed distant Asianic relative of Mrs. Piggy with his giant Teeth and Mr. T fashion advise. Whoa is Us.
And just as you make see the light at the end of the tunnel, the Thai tribute to "I'm gonna git you sucka" is there at the exit to wish you well on your travels.
A favorite of mine was to stand behind this guy and yell "Two for flinching" to Westerners as they passed.
At this point you gotta ask yourself, Self "What is it with these Thai's"? If you ever learn the answer, please pass it on.
From Bangkok Inx & Co. headed North to Ride elephants (That was SOOO India for me) and I headed South to Railey Beach, home to World Famous...
I spent 4 days climbing amongst the Limestone Cliffs and went really, really high. Lead-climbed a 6b+ so that's good too.
Rejoined team Eesti 5 days later in Kao Tao, a sleepy little island in the Gulf of Thailand that's perfect. Great snokeling here and this is where Ingrid and I notched our second "playing with sharks" experience.
Admittedly, the black tipped reef sharks were as dangerous as 3 week old kittens, but it still gets your heart going when a 5ft shark swims toward you.
We toured the famous Beaches of South Thailand over the next few weeks with stops at Ko Phi Phi, Phuket, Ton Sai, Kangeh, Ao Noi, and others. Yeah!
Tough work, but someone's got to do it.
Beaches ranged from Rocky
to tidal
to Psychadelic
Should you long for further detail, I'd be glad to provide the full report over a few cold ones.
After Southern Thailand Inx and I packed our bags (which gets old on day 217 in case you were wondering) bowed to our favorite Buddah (below) and shuffled off to Malaysia to continue the beach quest...
Bangkok had dozens of great things to see and they're all conveniently located in a single block! It's the Grand Palace and The Great Golden other Things. Whatever. The highlight is a MASSIVE reclining Buddha. Just look at this guy, and some thought I have a big head!
At the foot of this gargantuan tribute to the enlightened are his holinesses' Mother-of-Pearl inlaid feet. It was only AFTER this photo that Adam had the "Don't poke fun at the deity" sign pointed out to him. My Bad! (No joke - "Poke Fun at the diety" was there, in text, next to the world's largest Golden Buddha. Gotta love it)
Just outside the door of the Temple of the Reclining Buddah one enters the Magical garden of disturbing Gnomes.
It's just Creepy.
And if the Garden of disturbing Gnomes doesn't get you, these guys will.
Admittedly, these Demons are pretty cool to look at and they probably won't give my nightmares the way that bug-eyed gnomes' gonna.
After the gauntlet of creepy Gnomes and Demons , the Thai's throw this guy at you! Apparently we're all destined to be consumed by the Maori tattooed distant Asianic relative of Mrs. Piggy with his giant Teeth and Mr. T fashion advise. Whoa is Us.
And just as you make see the light at the end of the tunnel, the Thai tribute to "I'm gonna git you sucka" is there at the exit to wish you well on your travels.
A favorite of mine was to stand behind this guy and yell "Two for flinching" to Westerners as they passed.
At this point you gotta ask yourself, Self "What is it with these Thai's"? If you ever learn the answer, please pass it on.
From Bangkok Inx & Co. headed North to Ride elephants (That was SOOO India for me) and I headed South to Railey Beach, home to World Famous...
I spent 4 days climbing amongst the Limestone Cliffs and went really, really high. Lead-climbed a 6b+ so that's good too.
Rejoined team Eesti 5 days later in Kao Tao, a sleepy little island in the Gulf of Thailand that's perfect. Great snokeling here and this is where Ingrid and I notched our second "playing with sharks" experience.
Admittedly, the black tipped reef sharks were as dangerous as 3 week old kittens, but it still gets your heart going when a 5ft shark swims toward you.
We toured the famous Beaches of South Thailand over the next few weeks with stops at Ko Phi Phi, Phuket, Ton Sai, Kangeh, Ao Noi, and others. Yeah!
Tough work, but someone's got to do it.
Beaches ranged from Rocky
to tidal
to Psychadelic
Should you long for further detail, I'd be glad to provide the full report over a few cold ones.
After Southern Thailand Inx and I packed our bags (which gets old on day 217 in case you were wondering) bowed to our favorite Buddah (below) and shuffled off to Malaysia to continue the beach quest...
posted by aiechter at 6:43 AM
1 Comments:
really? no comment on the pronounciation of "ko phi phi"? adam, i'm suprised at you!
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