good bye snow...

lost in a thai village...

Hello everybody...

Here I am with a post from last Wednesday... sorry for the delay, but what can I say? Teaching is hard ok!


Last week Lisa and I decided to head downtown after work in search of climbing gym that was listed on the worlds greatest map ever. Whoever comes to visit me will live by this map I swear... it helps even me find my way around the city... a task that most of you had no faith I could accomplish.


We began in familiar territory, the docking spot for our Chinatown adventure. Except, this time we had a much farther journey on the Klong Taxi. We ending up getting off the boat after about a half an hour ride, and ended up on this little fishing pier. When we arrived we looked into the marsh and there were thousands of massive fish, the were flopping about like mad. And we all know with fish come BIRDS! For every fish there must have been about 8 birds, dirty, scary pidgeon type birds. We were trying to figure out where to catch the little boat that would take us across the river and we had to walk along this rickity little ramp. And yes, this ramp was covered in birds. I said to myself be brave Crystal be brave, the birds have the fish to eat... they don't need your flesh. And then I closed my eyes and crossed the ramp... and you know what? I didn't even get pecked once. Although it was maybe the scariest time of my life.


Once we crossed the river we ended up in this tiny little Thai village. All of the signs that across the river would have had English script was now only Thai... we were definitely the whitest people there... it was awesome. Finally I felt like I escaped tourist town, and was actually in Thailand. Then we started walking... and walking... and walking, after a while it dawned on us that that main road we thought was just ahead, may not be. We ended up in the courtyard of this thai school, when a man came out and with the little english he knew tried to direct us to the climbing gym that he didn't know existed. (our map didn't detail this small village) So, the man drew us this really suspect map, that miraculously Lisa could decipher. We stumbled upon this abandoned Wat (temple) , we walked along this really narrow cement walkway, while being trailed by a motor cycle, we nearly got attacked by rabid dogs. It was so fun. What we saw was so cool that we didn't even care that we didn't find the climbing gym.



We realized that it was gonna get dark soon, so we better get back across the river. When all of a dudden we stumbled upon the next Klong stop on the river. We hopped back on the boat, got off at khao san road... grabbed some cheap cheap grub, and then headed back to Bang na. Overall a satisfying day of discovery.

A note to Teresa... I love love your blog. I miss miss you. I don't have your email. I want it.

The double word is what they do here in Thailand... things are cheap cheap or same same, it's really cute!

Anyway, that's it for now. Love to all.

posted by Crystal @ 5:52 AM