| Smiles from Siam |
In Thailand we went back from Cambodia and I must say what I brought home Thai, it is certainly their smile. You walk up to a banquet on the road, walk into a restaurant or a store, you're at the ticket office of the boat or aircraft, and come always greeted with a genuine smile. Sure, you're a customer, not a friend. But who gets really happy to have you as a customer and that's why his smile is sincere and really bright and not of mere fact: and it is different from going to a place and feel a nuisance for those who have to "serve" ! And when he smiled, there was no doubt that we were instead faced with a Chinese! In the end, our journey has been reduced to only two chapters: Bangkok and Pukhet. What I will tell you: BANGKOK.
An Asian metropolis of six million and a half inhabitants certainly can not be a whole better and more beautiful. Dilapidated houses and skyscrapers, technology and lifestyle from the Third World, there exist side by side. But it is certainly interesting and beautiful things to see tourists there. And we have not found the megalopolis of crime, pollution and prostitution. Of course, the traffic is heavy, chaotic and at certain times and areas completely crazy, but I recommend the smell of smog that is in the center of Bologna! And security issues, muggings, robberies, and so we did not and never had the impression of being able to have: the point is just to take out all the same precautions we take when we turn to our Italian cities. Finally, prostitutes and sex clubs will find one who wants to find them, but if you look for them is that you do not bump into them under the nose and the feeling that I had is that Bangkok is a city at the end of a lot less "corrupt" than his other sisters, Asia and South America. We stayed in a Guesthouse we contacted directly via the Internet, in the Banglampu, a neighborhood near the historic old town full of these small and cheap pensions crowded with so-called "backpacker tourists", that is on a budget and often just passing through in Bangkok on the way to other destinations. A room without a closet and never riassettata five-day stay, but with air conditioning (outside there were about 30 degrees with high humidity) and private bathroom (dirty and malandatuccio like everything else) at a cost of 32,000 pounds per night. If you have more demands, but you can always find better, from $ 100 upwards: you do.
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| Banglampu1 |
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| Banglampu2 |
Banglumpoo shops
Banglampu is also lined with Internet services to the public and there is almost Guesthouse that offers its parade of computers, the price of 60 pounds per minute for the connection: much more convenient to keep in touch with home and friends and work e- email rather than by phone, which costs twenty-five times more! There are also many small rooms where you eat and drink, but beware: if you are only frequented by tourists, there mainly drink beer and eat normally and badly and spicy, because it seems that the majority of Australians and Western these parts are only interested in drinking gallons of beer and therefore are served accordingly. Our advice is to stick to a place where you see almost exclusively Thai or oriental in general. And if you have the foresight to ask for food not too spicy, otherwise do not worry about anything, because in Thailand the food is very good and the prices are really ridiculous (our most expensive meals we have paid between 25 and 30 000 lire per couple). Even less you can spend in the most rustic restaurants with tables and kitchen on the road, where the quality is not bad, as long as you have the warning eat only freshly cooked before your eyes: a little 'dirty just cooked does not evil, unlike the pre-cooked that sometimes you can catch more restaurants for tourists instead of the big hotels in places such as free-range
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