Alright, kids, I don't have much time but I posted up some pics so I figure I should give you some reference points:
1) Bangkok
I arrived to people flinging water and smearing this weird muddy stuff on each other...and me.
Turns out it was the last day of their 5 day celebration of the Chinese New Year. The tradition began with people peacefully sprinkling water on the Buddha for good luck. It's now a no holds barred, 5-day water assault. Not water fight, that sounds too playful, this is a massacre. After a few hours of laughing and playing along, I finally put up the white flag and slunk back to my guest house to hide.
Though the I'm waiting on getting pics from my buddy Adam, the rest of the week was a blast. Met up with some NZ friends as well as my brother's best friend from high school who is from Bangkok. Lots of live bands, eating and drinking. Sweet action.
2) Chiang Mai
Opting to go north to try and experience some "culture"
before I head to the tourist saturated beaches in the south, Chiang Mai seemed like the way to go. Took a cooking class which I RULED at (this of course is hyperbole: I was the worst in the class. But definitely front runner for "Most Spirited") and will be very willing to give you a demonstration when I get home--though I'm quite certain that when a chef and his 4 assistants aren't around things are gonna look quite a bit different.
Met a couple travel buddies who then went with me to...
3) Pai
A hippie village to the north west that's chock full of farangs (again, the name for tourists) but a good time anyway. Met amazing people including a dude that's been on the road for 15 years and still has remained un-weird (a great feat in my book) and went on:
4) THE JUNGLE TREK
That's in caps because it deserves them. It deserves every exclamation point ya got. We ate freshly sling shotted squirrel and other mystery meat, helped construct a bamboo/banana leaf hut in a driving rain storm and clambered about on some sweet waterfalls. Ooh and got leeches. That was fun. The second night was the best--spent it at a rural Thai village whose towns men were just a little too ready to shove rice whisky down our throa
ts...and of course, in order to be polite, we acquiesced. I still feel sick.
Okay, that's the quick and dirty, but enjoy the pics and I'll try and be more verbose later!!
1) Bangkok
I arrived to people flinging water and smearing this weird muddy stuff on each other...and me.
Turns out it was the last day of their 5 day celebration of the Chinese New Year. The tradition began with people peacefully sprinkling water on the Buddha for good luck. It's now a no holds barred, 5-day water assault. Not water fight, that sounds too playful, this is a massacre. After a few hours of laughing and playing along, I finally put up the white flag and slunk back to my guest house to hide.Though the I'm waiting on getting pics from my buddy Adam, the rest of the week was a blast. Met up with some NZ friends as well as my brother's best friend from high school who is from Bangkok. Lots of live bands, eating and drinking. Sweet action.
2) Chiang Mai
Opting to go north to try and experience some "culture"
before I head to the tourist saturated beaches in the south, Chiang Mai seemed like the way to go. Took a cooking class which I RULED at (this of course is hyperbole: I was the worst in the class. But definitely front runner for "Most Spirited") and will be very willing to give you a demonstration when I get home--though I'm quite certain that when a chef and his 4 assistants aren't around things are gonna look quite a bit different.Met a couple travel buddies who then went with me to...
3) Pai
A hippie village to the north west that's chock full of farangs (again, the name for tourists) but a good time anyway. Met amazing people including a dude that's been on the road for 15 years and still has remained un-weird (a great feat in my book) and went on:
4) THE JUNGLE TREK
That's in caps because it deserves them. It deserves every exclamation point ya got. We ate freshly sling shotted squirrel and other mystery meat, helped construct a bamboo/banana leaf hut in a driving rain storm and clambered about on some sweet waterfalls. Ooh and got leeches. That was fun. The second night was the best--spent it at a rural Thai village whose towns men were just a little too ready to shove rice whisky down our throa
ts...and of course, in order to be polite, we acquiesced. I still feel sick.Okay, that's the quick and dirty, but enjoy the pics and I'll try and be more verbose later!!
3 comments:
Ok,Kari. That's enough. It's time to come home. Mom
Oh my god... Please visit me in Portland and make me some thai food!
In reference to mom--Whhaaaat? What did I do??
as for brian: oh hell's yes! and you can teach me all your fancy vegan recipes. We'll edit, cook, edit some more, cook some more and then go do whatever it is you Portland people do...I'm guessing it involves a hukah.
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