Update 17: Thailand is not India
1:40PM
Saturday 13 January 2007
Krabi, Thailand
Hello Beach-goer:
I had a pleasant flight from Chennai to Bangkok on Christmas morning. New Year's Eve was interrupted by bomb blasts in central Bangkok, but few were injured thanks to a shutdown by police. I discovered Khao San Road, Soi Patpong, and Sathorn Road. I found a technological supermall called Pantip Plaza. I suffered a little from a fever relapse, but successfully put it down with some antibiotics and had a delayed departure from Bangkok.
Thailand is not India. Everything is different: the people, the traffic, the architecture, the climate. It was a bit of a shock for the first few days -- but a good shock. I walked up and down the street and looked at things. The people are so quiet! There's so much meat! There are so many 7-Elevens!
At the moment I am in Krabi, a long bus ride from Bangkok. I'm about to go to Railay Beach nearby by long-tail boat. We'll see if life on the beach is all it's cracked up to be.
Safe travels,
Mark
Blog entries since my last email update:
- From Bangkok I go to Krabi and Railay Beach
- Sathorn Road finance and Soi Patpong shopping
- How to Eat Watermelon with a Fork
- My faith in antibiotics is partially restored
- Bangkok fever is an exercise in frustration
- Photos from Bangkok near New Year's eve
- Hotel Sawasdee Khaosan Inn
- New Year's Bombings in Bangkok
- Pantip Plaza, technological supermall in Bangkok
- The Land of Smiles
- First impressions of Bangkok, Thailand after ten months in India
- I connect to the matrix in Chennai Airport
- A few packed days in Chennai; goodbye India, helloThailand
