I Love Thailand: Travelling around
    Thailand Slide Show, Part 2

    (The author before Kaw Maeo and Kaw Nuu --cat & mouse islands-- in southern Thailand)
    ©1997-2001 Martin Kraemer
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    Travelling around


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    On every larger bus stop, people selling drinks, newspapers or chewing gum enter the bus, offer their things and leave again on the other end of the bus.


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    When you travel by train, you should not miss the chance to make a ride in the third class with one of the diesel trains. It's impressing: on the train you have the choice to try many thai dishes, all neatly prepared and wrapped in natural (``biodegradable'') banana leaves with simple throwaway bamboo chopsticks. And it's ever so tasty!


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    Waiting for the midday heat to pass... (in Hua Hin)


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    The "real" Floating Market in /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/, three hours from Bangkok.


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    The peak time at the Floating Market in /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/ is early, long before the busses loaded with tourists from Bangkok arrive.


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    One of my favorites... At /dam-nEEn-sa'duag'/


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    When you head north on the train to visit the old capitals, you have plenty of time to enjoy the incredibly green rice fields in the plains of central Thailand.


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    Usenet reader McCherv@aol.com wrote me about this picture:

      I particularly like image #0083. The woman in the market. The sign says Mangda- 4 baht each. I remember catching them in Nakhon Phanom Province in 1969 and giving them to villagers. I always thought they were a meal of last resort. But now I see they are 4 baht each. I never would have thought of them as being so expensive.


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    Let's visit a Temple Fair: you'll find everything like on a normal fair, but then they also sell traditional medicine to cure all kinds of diseases.


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    And of course, at the temple fairs you'll find Buddha amulets in all sizes and shapes. These amulets are known to help against accidents, even against being shot at(!).

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