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Published: December 6th 2010
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At the fightOk starting from last night (I tried to update, but the page wasn't working), we took a tuk tuk for 80 baht to the Muay Thai fight. When we arrived at the curb, there was a very large person waiting for us/trying to get more people into the arena. Anyways s/he, who was taller than Ronald (he's 6'1''), led us to our seats and we sat down at a little plastic table with a tablecloth and plastic chairs and then we ordered a beer and watched the fights. There were around 7 fights, and they started with the younger ones and girls and then moved on to foreigner vs. Thai, and then to the main fight. In between some of them our lady boys wore banners for different countries (including "Chaina", "Venezuera", and "Potorico") and danced to some fine, classic tunes such as YMCA. There was a group of French people and a couple had brought two of their kids. Poor things. Punch me in the face if I ever take children to a boxing match. Anyways, after the main fight there was a fight between a kid and a dwarf, and the dwarf won. I think most of the fights
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The...women? were rigged, so I won't be going back to that any time soon. After we just headed back home.
Today was the King's birthday, the day they apparently weren't supposed to sell any sort of alcohol. We found that little tidbit to be absolutely untrue throughout the whole day. I went out in the morning to get us some bagged fruit (10 baht each) and yogurt so we could take our malaria pills. When we left around lunchtime, we started at the Ginger Kafe, which was nice but pricey. Then we had some time to kill before the Sunday Walking Street, a market from about 5pm to midnight that's only on Sundays -- this was another recommendation from Becky.
We walked around town looking at some of the wats around the city. In one of them there's a fiberglass monk that looks incredibly real. When the market finally started, we roamed through that for a couple of hours. Once while we were in there everybody froze in their place to sing/listen to what I assume was the national anthem. We bought some little lights and that was really it before going to Jerusalem Falafel, a really good Middle
Durian
so smelly hotels won't let you bring it in Eastern/Turkish/Greek restaurant.
What I thought was really neat was that beside the stage at the end of the walking street people were lighting little fires underneath lanterns and setting them off into the night sky. They set off a few fireworks, had a little show, and everyone went home.
Goodnight, pictures later.
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Emilio
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Bhumibol's Birthday circus
That's it for another12 months! We'll have to wait one more year for this circus again. What a complete waste of public money! All this just to pretend that the Thai king is "revered" by his people. Bah!