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Published: February 8th 2012
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Oh how poignant a single song can be at times....
It's 10.37pm here in good ol' Chuncheon, most simply the place I now call home.
Just been dropped home by a rather lovely taxi driver, who despite minimal English managed to get it out of me that I enjoy "old school songs" and put on What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Now of course, bare in mind I was still horribly jet lagged..and feeling the effects of about 20 hours sleep in two weeks...ANYWAY that's enough of that my god! Now it's time for the good stuff. That being what was the grand vacation of 2011 baby. To Thailand with a Motley Crew of friends...
So I'll start at the beginning because you KNOW the drama or craziness would have started early..and bloody hell did it ever...The moment we got to the airport to check in...
Ok.....here it goes...we come along to check-in, and get told DIRECT QUOTE "maybe no fly....typhoon" umm...we look at each other rather suspiciously....ask again to clarify, to which we are told (and this became a statement we heard A LOT) lol god bless the Koreans...."No-one Knows?!" huh we say....no-one knows~!! BUt...you
guys are telling us we can't board our flight...so surely YOU must have a reason or can tell us what to do... After about five more "I don't knows" we started to realise what was happening/or what wouldn't be happening. Long Story Short there was a Typhoon heading straight towards China (we had a stop over in shanghai) and we might not be able to fly for another WEEK or so. Rather devastating news as our vacation was only two weeks but as luck would have it...both flights left on time. And we touched down in Thailand and boosted to Khaosan Rd - mega cheap spot to find accomodation, and of course shop until we dropped!
On the third day we went to the Floating Markets ( I should mention this was after staying up ALL night and going to this crazy party where I befriended a boy I'm sure wasn't a day over 18! Thank god my better judgement won out for once and I choose to sleep beside a delicious looking chicken kebab as oppose to the former.)
So of course here we are on the way to the floating markets, feeling less than great,
we arrive and go leisurelydown this canal. Really nice actually! Stopping every now and than to buy some overpriced something, or eat some mangos, drink a coconut (they are delicious!)
We then went to see the Tigers. Now - I'm not too sure what to say about this. Yes, it was rather crazy to hold a tigers head, and pat the damn thing BUt it struck me as VERY strange how sedated "sleepy as they called it" the Tigers were...a little too sleep if you ask me. Also seeing them all chained up was a bit weird. And then of course the money shot was meeting some monks, who then proceded to smoke and play on their ipods! I'm sorry...but I wasn't aware modern day Monks smoked cigarettes and listened to Ipods. hmmm.....the joys of travelling
We than went to see a few temples, I lit a candle for mumsi which was really nice. And made a promise to myself that if I was EVER to become religious Buddhism would be it. I tell you...it is SO relaxing, and has such good values attached to it.
That night (and let's be honest...many of our nights in Thailand)
really did consist of a lot of cheap cocktails, and I'm not going to lie, A MASSAGE or three most days, they were all so amazing and cheap, I couldn't help myself I really couldn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they were just epic. And of course the cheapest and most delectable Pad Thai. And of course you can imagine our happiness when we realised these street vendors worked AROUND the clock. So it was generally 8pm dinner Pad Thai, restaurant and cocktails...followed by 5am drunken stumble to Pad Thai.
The night after this was when the now infamous 'robbed by a pregnant Prostitute" comes into...I hope your sitting comfortably. Ok...
so there we are taking a crazy tuk tuk to this Ping Pong Show. I should have known things were going to get crazy when we tried to source one of these tuk tuks only to be told "pussy VERY expensive. you pay NOW!"
Oh I should probably mention here we ended up fighting about 5 croatian guys for a taxi aka they hillariously lifted up the little thai tuk tuk driver and said they were running away with him
(which looked from our angle absolutely hillarious!) and then we fought with
them but they let us have it. So we barrel on up to Super Pussy - once again should have known! walk inside and am greeted by truly the most shocking of sights. Prostitues everywear, fawning over men young and old, and of course the copious foreigners who I had to laugh at, because we all looked so similar. Everyone was just chilling and smiling, as if to say "Yip, I'm from a western country....just hear to see the madness and tell ALL my friends" First things first we witnessed a Thai lady smoke a cigareete out of her you know what...we then ordered a beer and decided to chill for a bit..bad idea! at one point me and coco were gripped in this D n M about god knows what and suddenly I feel like splash of water...WAIT FOR IT! On my lips AND neck. There I am wondering what that was...and low an behold I look towards the stage and this thai lady is smiling at me with an OPENED bottle of water! Oh god! Turns out she had managed to pop the top off with once again you-know-what...
Next it was the lighting of a rather
oddly, and quite scary, childrens birthday cake! I KNOW! and finally the money shot...I go to bathroom, only to return to find two prostitutes sitting suspiciously by my bag and they hand it back to me/ and I thank them and voila' check my bag and is my money still in there? I think NOT... I found myself inbetween laughter and tears about the whole incident.
We then headed on to Koh Samui (after a wait....FOR IT....) 12 hour bus ride. MY GOD! what were we thinking........................where we stayed in a sweet resort. And drank 40 ounces on the beach, and woke up to the birds chirping, and went swimming, and had massages to the sounds of Led Zeppelin. We than attended the allmighty Full Moon Party and wasn't that a HOOT!!!! I tell you...we painted ourselves in pink, and yellow, and drank out of buckets. I tell you I was in my element. I then procded to dance with a man who I knew simple as Israel because that's where he said he was from...yet when I asked his name he would just repeat Israel, Israel. He then got a little too much for my liking, and god
bless the drunk guy as soon as I pushed him away he managed to grab my friends breast, once again shourt Israel and then come onto her! safe to say we left him alone...
! We than took a rather shambolic boat back to the Island in the morning...and another hillarious thing happend. You know those funny charcters (often with a french accent) on movies....the pirate ones with the funny moustache that curls inwards on both sides...I swear this guy resembled one of them and was the bloody funniest sight to see in the early morning! Perhaps because he leapt off the boat with people trailling behind him and then climbed onto ours from the water...when he sat down I swear it was like the bloody titanic....as in "We have to go back and get the others...it's your men out there" because we were all sitting all huddled up because not everyone was allowed on our boat....And better still this guy got on and muttered the funniest sentence and then K.O..it went like this "I've lost three phones, ALL my money, and my only friend" OMG we say what happend to your friend..."I don't know" he says in perhaps
the happiest voice I've ever seen..."DRUGS!" he then screams and lets out a huge laugh and falls baCK INTO HIS chair on the boat.
So that was the trip, I must say, it was one of the best vacations I've ever been on. Action packed yet relaxing at the same time! Now roll on Semester 2...
"Live with no excuses and love with no regrets"
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