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Thailand: Chiang Mai Thailand

We were stopped, as I am with Tik in the hotel "Le Chalet Suit" (เลอ ชา เล ท์ have taken root สวี ท
[lɤ̄ ː ʨ ʰ ā ː le ː sawi ː t]
). Super Nice room, as I said, and the location was great: quiet, and the ubiquitous Thai 24-hour supermarket " Seven Eleven / " same underneath. The only thing missing hangers. The next day (day 137 ) have had enough sleep and we are after dinner in the famous zoo run by Chiang Mai in order to visit the pandas. Unfortunately, we were a bit late and have such a short hand to the zoo the next day moved.
Instead, we are using Van on the top of Mount Doi Suthep (ดอย สุ เทพ [dɔ̄ ː j sùʔt ʰ ê ː p]
) issued, on which an eponymous temple
Wat Phra That Doi Suthep (วัด พระ ธาตุ ดอย สุ เทพ [WAT p ʰ ráʔt ʰ â ː t dɔ̄ ː j sùʔt ʰ ê ː p] ) was - another attraction of the foreigners (to Thai: farang , ฝรั่ง [faran] ) Flooded city. The ride was bumpy, steep and long, Tik and I felt bad and it hurt the ears thanks to a combination of cold and fast in altitude (like me one day in the aircraft times) . The next time you travel take chewing gum! But the temple was great! Very large, a huge golden dome (Chedi), had many interesting things and captions in Thai and Lanna - a traditional alphabet of
northern Thai language (native speakers of these is as tip - and I have a lot of photos that I do not all wanted to upload to Flickr , there's only the best. Above we saw then a celebrity for a: Which of the "Twins", a duo that looks something like times in Thailand won the Super Star and now makes use of vocals on advertising to any dance. Hihi. So was very impressive, the whole thing. was the evening's then on the market in Chiang Mai , where we've fully beaten the bellies (Thai food is so sooooooo delicious!), I bought a Lanna-T-shirt and we then with a tuk- Tuk (รถ ตุ๊ก ตุ๊ก [red tuktuk] ) are back to the hotel, because it's Tik was ill and she felt sick.

The next day was better. We went with one of these zweibänkigen minibuses to the zoo to look to us the pandas. Unfortunately, we were back late, because we are such Liesen and walk everywhere had to eat. The zoo there, unfortunately, precludes relatively early in the day. So we then had about 2 ½ hours to us to see the animals there. The zoo is really nice, though not as great as the Safari Park in Kunming
. Among others, there was also capybaras (
Capybara ), we see here original and forgery ! Water buffalo, deer and tigers and giraffes and birds had them there as well. A sassy hippo 's was also on view, only for the pandas it was too late, which are already gone to bed at 17:00, unfortunately. But there was something else nice: elephant feeding and stroking! I have since turned a small video, which I hope lasts should watch and download not too long :

funny way, was the price. While China is on the market or in the store like to get ripped off with exorbitant prices, most Thais are honest. But it may happen that the temple or zoo visits for foreigners like twice Costs. To avoid complaints from farangs, is the price usually written in Thai Thai - well, that Thai has its own character figure, how does this next picture: adult Thais pay 50 baht, Thai children 10 baht. As such things cost in Thailand, of course, less than in Germany, Essen, for example, usually under a €, entrance fees and the like usually so 1 to 2 euros, things in the supermarket are pretty cheap. But China is generally a cheaper country, as indeed I once had a written progress report
. have been
But this should also have our time in beautiful Chiang Mai (really recommended!), because the tour went on. In the evening we checked out the hotel and took the bus to Lampang (ลำปาง [lampa ː ŋ] ), in order a day or two with tip and Guy (who lived there now) to spend. In the next time around.

To be continued ...

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: Kunming , Xishuangbanna, Mohan, Chiang Khong, Mae Sai

I'm back from the super nice

(!) Thailand, after a nearly two-week vacation with Tik. Today is day 148 , but because Thailand is so exciting and worth telling and I have made over 400 photos, I shall divide my report, for the benefit of all. I should mention that the destinations are fairly stated by my last time itinerary distinguished. So I begin the exciting journey from Kunming to Thailand ... It started on 7 January (day 135) with a taxi from our hostel here in Kunming (昆明 [k ʰ únmǐŋ]
) to the bus station in the east of the city. With the party were out of me as only used Tik (ติ๊ก
[tics] ) and her friend Foam (โฟม [for ː m] ). The weather was surprisingly sunny and warm and I thought for fun, since we would not even to Thailand. There, we met with four other Thais in Yunnan Normal University, friends of Foam: Bow (โบว์ [bo ː] ), Tai (ต่า ย [ta ː j] ), Boat (โบ๊ ท [bo ː t] ) and Pet (เป็ด [pet] ). We waited there, ate and then mounted the coach: a Sleeper (pictured right) , something I knew not yet: in three rows and two planes were there close but comfortable beds, a metal grid structure held a dependent on falling out and allowed to climb to the beds. Shoes had to move out before. Each had a Location and hand baggage and the shoes you got in somehow. It was really very close and musty. For this kind of funny. The bus seemed to be populated for the most part, however, two Chileans were on board with the Chinese, Thais and Laotians. Towards evening, went off, leaving ... came the next morning at 8:30 we Xīshuāngbǎnnà (西双版纳 [ɕíʂwáŋpãnnâ]
;
Note: The tilde does not represent nasalization, but a falling-rising tone !) In the south of Yunnan Province (云南 [jy̌nnǎn] ) and then went right up to the Sino-Laotian border in Mohan (磨憨 [mɔ̌xán] ) and Bohan (ບໍ່ ຫານ [bɔ hǎ ː ː n] ), where our passports were checked and serviced short. The two Chileans had some problems since they could neither Chinese nor Thai nor Lao, but English. So I've helped them a bit. Unfortunately, they were also not quite clear where they would go now ... naja. Next we took a minibus to get us seven half a kilometer further to the right border crossing visas. The Thais do not need someone who can simply durch Laos durch. Deutsche müssen sich allerdings für 38 $ (die ich hatte, hehe) ein Visum für die Volksrepublik Laos besorgen, was aber "schnell" an der Grenze zu erledigen geht. Schnell ist hier relativ, denn die Schlangen waren lang und der Stempelmensch sehr langsam, zudem hatte er das Wechselgeld nicht, weswegen ich mir das dann in laotischen Kip (ກີບ [kìːp] ) habe auszahlen lassen. Ich kam außerdem wieder mit den Chilenern ins Gespräch und obendrein mit zwei Schweizern (einer davon hieß Urs), die gerade auf Weltreise waren, mit ihrem Auto. Nach vielleicht einer Stunde oder mehr hatte dann auch ich meine Stempel im Pass, die mir 30 Tage in Laos ermöglichten. 3 Stunden would have done but also's. Then we went for the seven of us with a van (in Chinese funnily 面包车 miànbāochē = "bread car") through Laos. Laos seems to be really poor, at least we have only tiny village of wooden huts with crumbling
seen. Tik said to me, the house of her grandmother would look so out of ... uff da na. In a small, overpriced Essschuppen
on stream flow Nam Fa (ນ້ໍາ ຟ້າ [nâ ː m for ː] ) went on the trip then. Three or four hours later we arrived at the Lao-Thai Border town (as is the only?) , and with a small paddle boat to seventh with our luggage on the Mekong River (Lao: ແມ່ນ້ໍາຂອງ [mɛ ː nâ ː m k ʰ ɔ̌ ː ŋ] ; Thai: แม่น้ำ โขง [mɛ ː ná ː m k ʰ ǒ ː ŋ] ) geschippert (see right) and then arrived in the Promised Land. After we had welcomed the parents of Foam and our luggage taken away from the shore, someone called me from behind: Andrew! - it was tip (ทิป [T ʰ ip]), Guy's girlfriend, with whom we wanted to meet. They had also just arrived by car. Another passport control there in Chiang Khong (เชียงของ [ʨ ʰ ī ː ə̯ŋ k ʰ ɔ̌ ː ŋ] ; Note: / k ʰ / is in Thai and Lao almost always as [x] spoken ), the departure of the other Thais, and then Tik and I went (oops, there, in Thailand so left!) with Guy and tip in the car with. Guy drove us for the evening to Mae Sai (แม่สาย [mɛ ː sǎːj] ), einer Kleinstadt an der
thailändisch-burmesischen Grenze
, die wir aber nicht überquerten, weil es schon spät war. Wir haben dort lecker gegessen, uns den Markt angeguckt, gequatscht... das ist übrigens nicht so einfach: Ich spreche Deutsch, Englisch und Chinesisch, Tik spricht Thai und Chinesisch, Guy spricht Englisch, Thai und Deutsch und Tip Thai und Englisch. Es gab also keine gemeinsame Lingua Franca und wir mussten alles immer irgendwie zweimal sagen. ;) Dann fuhr uns Guy nach Chiang Mai (เชียงใหม่ [ʨʰīːə̯ŋ màj] ), suchte für us - because he seems to really know about everywhere in Thailand perfectly - a cheap hotel, totally beautiful drum with all the trimmings, each for 800 ฿ (about 19 €) night. The next morning we were supposed to meet four of us again ...
To be continued ...

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Can not take off of you (Sho's solo)

Can not take off of you (Sho's solo)

Well girls on this occasion we bring you the only Suppin Sho in 2001, looks so cute, the song is a cover of a well-known EITO, hope you like it.

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Tag 134: Tag 134: Neujahr, Friseur & Reisepläne



New Year It is the 6th January 2011 and New Year I have survived without prejudice: but not surprising. It is in fact nothing was going on. Nothing, absolutely nothing. In China, apparently no one celebrates New Year's Eve. It's funny that invented the country where the black powder and is famous for firecrackers on New Year's Eve not heard a single blast was. As if it were an x-any evening in April. Somehow bad ... for it - so I was several pages, the word "war zone" reported use - is to leave here for the Spring Festival the right post. Well let's see ... This year is the Spring Festival on the 3rd February, when I'm not mistaken. celebrated New Year's so I'm just as Christmas
've only briefly with Tik & Mhuey exchanged New Year greetings. There is to this "event" did no photographic evidence (of which even?), Left here a photo that has taken my sister at home in Leipzig. Directly behind our house. Is not it beautiful? :)
Hairdressers


since I was in China I'm still not at the hairdresser, but my hair is naturally also getting longer. I usually go only when they are really annoying and I always hang out in the face. Just like this time What is more, I have not taken a really trust the Chinese hairdressing and there was so skeptical. In our favorite eating mile, 圆 西路 (Yuánxīlù) , there's also three barber shops, all strangely served by men (but seems to be quite normal in China). I've got a showing, say, as I wanted to have it (Containing only shorter, and the sides a little less), feared and hoped. Without glasses, I also do not see, what do the people there with me. Otherwise, the procedure was quite similar as well as at home: wash in front, then cut. Surprisingly, then wash again, and then blow-dry. About the result I was surprised it looked good, better than I's get in Germany so far, the time was about the same (just a little longer by further washing), the price: 12 € I paid in Leipzig usually including student discount. Here in Kunming's were 10 ¥ (equivalent to € 1.15), less than a tenth. Wow! I think it would have can be a bit shorter, but with the result (see left) I am very satisfied. Tik and Mhuey that matter. :)
travel plans
And now the big surprise ...
I'm going to Thailand!


... and indeed tomorrow. With Tik. :) The plan is as follows: Tik and I are going tomorrow afternoon / evening from Kunming wrong with a coach, along with another Thai woman called from here Foam (who calls his child "foam") and their 4? Friends of the Nachbaruni. This is a sleeping bus because the ride will last about 12 hours, This is very cheap but: I paid 306 yen (about 35 €). The stations of the journey will be whole:


1) 昆明 (Kunming)
: Click here 's going on at 18:00, with the Sleeper. This seems generally to be a rather ordinary long-distance transport in Southeast Asia and China. The journey takes about 12 hours to ... 2) 西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnná) : arrival date tomorrow morning at 6:00, for instance, there is a friend of Foam invited and at the border to buy me the visa for Laos. For Thailand, you do not need (it gets a hot Stamp in the passport and is good '), but even for Laos. This costs about $ 40, I have exchanged a while ago from Tip (Guys girlfriend)).
3) ຫລວງ ນໍ້າທາ (Luang Namtha) : I think through this Lao town it goes through, and then just take the bus to Thailand. The roads will probably be very rich serpentine, Guy has already warned me. Bad I need a Laosvisum, because even though I only travel ... Laos is, after all the guilt that it must lie precisely between Thailand and China!
4) เชียงราย (Chiang Rai) : first stop in Thailand: here, met with Guy and tip, and possibly a bit rumgefahren. Where, we are not as clear ... Let's see the two coming by car. :)
5) เชียงใหม่ (Chiang Mai) : Tik and I might stay there for 3 or 4 days, there it is ment to be very pretty, scenic, there is also a zoo with pandas. Oh, and located in northern Thailand, and that figure will probably still 30 ° C and more to be there. Uff ... Sunburn in January!
6) กำแพงเพชร (Kamphaeng Phet) : grandma lives there Tiks mother's side, yet also her aunt and several other family members. It should be possible to live there for several days. Tik but says there's is pretty boring because Kamphaeng Phet is a 100,000-strong village level. Supposedly can drive motorcycle but Tik - The yearning I want! : D
7) ชลบุรี (Chonburi) : is where the
University of Tik, Mhuey and pretty much all other Thais here. In addition, there lives one of the few Esperanto speakers in Thailand, which are Pasporta Servo mentioned - I have requested; it works: we can live there for 2, 3 days in his house. The man himself, Mark S., Australian, Thai and has a house with his wife, their son and a few others. Chonburi is the way to the sea. I will take lots of photos. *-* 8) กรุงเทพฯ (Krung Thep) : better known as the Bangkok
(and yes, I'm just starting the full name by heart), the capital of Thailand!. Here I'll 1, 2 or 3 days to spend without Tik, which goes to her parents in Chachoengsao. But that is not bad because there Mhuey, Noom and his brother Nuke (Thai nickname, well ...) live. I can probably stay there in the next room of the latter two, to just watch them and let it show Bangkok. Eventually, 20 probably as to the January creating all around me (including statistics) to the airport and put me back in the plane to Kunming, the cost would probably almost 2200 yuan proud ... uff. Well. Sun described briefly. I do not know how it looks like this in Thailand with the Internet, but I hope that I one probably. from each city (except for the first few) a record will be able to write (I think less). Mhuey is actually already in Thailand, describing the climate there as "damn hot" (ร้อน ฉิบหาย, spr.: [rɔ̀ːn ʨʰìp hǎːj]</a>). Na da... :)