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Da: Explorer !
Date: 22/05/2003
Time: 13.33
Trip notes by explorer. Hi friends! ... first ... I am very sorry about my English ...try to read it ... if you can .. and don't laugh too mach please ! I am just coming back from one of my insane stories and I want to tell it to you. This way, meantime you are bored navigators on your screen, looking for something of sparkle able to heats your soul and stimulates your imagination, I send you a little of heat and magic tropical warmth, that here there are a packages! Well, let's start telling that this travel I didn't even want to do, however because of the story that I had not arrived to the extreme north on the Mekong to the Laos border and even in the depth south Thailand between the 150 Andaman Islands, my friends started to laugh me back,.. and telling that was not so god for an explorer as me ...so go ! - I leaves again. Chiang Mai - you forget Chiang Mai, that of the guides, of the photos and of the stories from the magic oriental taste practically it doesn't exist anymore. I believe that the last rampart has demolished it in 1992, or perhaps 93, shaving at the ground the old and fascinating Night-bazaar, enormous and ancient covered labyrinth in wood, with more levels under which were hundred stand-shops that they sold the most unbelievable and eccentric objects from China, Laos, Burma etc and often of a good artistic level; there were small restaurants in every corner and the smeal it was an exotic fragrance, you could stay there cradled by the soft walking of the people, a strange crowd coming from the whole world and to spend there whole days to meet the most unbelievable persons and to drink tea, Nam-Cha with them. All dejected, and near there an enormous shed in armed cement has taken his place, inside fast food and Mc. Donald and in the shops only vulgar imitations done by machine in big series. The Old Wall of the old zone stay only, red as the Old Wall of the Forbidden City of Beijing. I sleep in the Chiang Mai Hotel (2,900 Baht), cement also here, swimming pool at the foreground of 3 x 6 meters.... cement. Street on. However it is from here that I leave for the Mekong. The area of the Mekong arouses different emotional reactions; of there it is Laos, with his endemic, true and fierce poverty, thousand year-old leap to the back in the history where it doesn't exist any type of medical assistance or something that can be called shop, and obviously without any safety,... it is easy to see to float dead bodies in the Mekong, swollen and obscene brought to valley by the slow but inexorable tide as the spend of the time. Here is Thailand and is as to say Disneyland and the contrast is lacerating. Here there were ( they still to be ) the folk villages as Kareang with the women from the long ringed necks.... but they still to keep it only for the tourists, coming here a big group as a flys, …and then the stroll with the elephant and the small waterfall and... look there a pretty snake. That’s all, almost plastic. The fear, hunger and poverty out side, Disneyland inside and the Mekong with his afloat dead bodies disemboweled by the fishes in the middle. I don't return there anymore. Krabi. - 2 hours of flight from Ciang Mai and we are at Krabi; strange place: new airport, new highways and new buildings with the bright insignias, the center is look like a big metropolis with the mobile staircases and the whole rest but …it just measure 800 x 900 meters. All around jungla. And between the jungla and the first houses, one hundred barrows smoking – frying all their strange foods with their delicious tastes. There is the Real King Palace next to Krabi! And precisely to Ao Nang. Ao Nang, I go there because the most beautiful beaches are there and then because from there all the small boat depart to go to the Andaman. The public taxi brings me there for 30 Baht and I go directed to the Frittomisto Villa; others upset as me has written curious stories in internet about this village and I want really to verify by my self. For 1,700 Baht they give me a good room with A/c and after a swim in swimming pool ( 8 x 20) really some Italians guy start to tell me stories as down head.... and we immediately make friends. Mauro has departed from Bologna in motorbike, with others 3 person and by forced marches of thousand kms. a day try to arrive here through the Himalaya but when they have arrived between the Kazakistan and the Tagikistan many person was shooting every where and due they mast to abdicate. Instead Stefano has departed from Ravenna with a 6 meters small boat assembled by him self and he has succeeded to arriving here a cross the ocean in 2 months and 24 days. As crazy panic. In Frittomisto are upset indeed. The 6 m. small boat has parked in the bay and obviously I books him a beautiful excursion to some of these islets. The islands are between the most beautiful of the world. Uninhabited and spellbound. We have remained around 5 days from an island to another, fishing with the shave savory barracudas that we cooked in the evening in the lukewarm silence of candid beaches. At night we have slept in the beach on the sack and with the fishing-line attached to the wrist, fishing on bottom the small sharks. When they eat… they immediately wake you. On the beach of Ko Tab I have assisted to the unbelievable phenomenon ( quite rare ) of the fluorescence of the sea. Billion of small bright organisms in the dark and in the silence absolute of the night, as so many fireflies illuminate the sea in a frightening dream, then… that stuff that they done me to smoke was not exactly tobacco, and in effects it has me upset a little all this story . To returning in Frittomisto, Gabry (another of the strange guy of Frittomisto) has seen that I appeared not so fine, so, after the barracuda cooked on the fire, a dish of frittomisto (obviously, it could not miss there) and the divine spaghetti allo scoglio , to let me be full fine he has brought me with oneself to take a body-massagge. In Krabi the lady don't do the body-massages so bitches as in Phuket, where the yang lady take you, they strip you and they wash you all, then they are also stripped and they anoint you completely and therefore they massage you by the body for 2 hours,… that someone becomes also crazy at the end. In Krabi the yang lady are decidedly more moderate and polite, but at the end, when I have gone out and Gabry has seen my face, … I don’t know why but he has laughed very strong. At the last floor of the restaurant of Frittomisto there is a kind of terrace games-room with a dream sight on the bay and... .a very big round couch at 10 places with carpet and pillows in mean, placed in front a TV connected to the satellite. There was pleasant to enjoy bier all together, accompanied by our friends watching the foodboll match live in the evening. The Singha Bier, after the barracuda at the fire it is a great thing, but after a little time, may be because the dream sight on the bay, …may be because all that soft pillows, … may be because the whole rest.... someone loses the account of the beers and it becomes difficult to refer the staircases to go in room, and therefore that upset of Frittomisto friends come to bring you the coffee, all satisfied and laughing, directly the morning after, then they also accompany you in the Jacuzzi to let you wake up fully. And you can look around then, and you see all those palms and the sight on the bay, and then all those kind girls of the staff, all in their Thai customs that seem so many pretty dolly . Frittomisto is in effects a village a little strange, …certainly magic. I will return there, rather, you also take a look at www.frittomistovilla.com that I believe that could be a god idea . Hi to all from explorer and... at the next one www.krabiemerald.com