long day October 12! started early on the day before straight appearance at the international airport in Muscat, the flight of qatar airlines flights to Doha, where after an hour of waiting I expect the shipment to Bangkok, the gateway to Asia and Thailand. It starts at 6 am from Muscat and 50 minutes to get to Doha. the airport is very organized, serves mainly as an exchange for international routes. the part after a short flight to BKK and will last for about 8 hours but the time your arrival time is scheduled for 19. then day by air passing also quite good: the food is good and I can see between a nap e l'altro anche un paio di filmetti nuovi. il vicino 'di banco' è un russo che velocemente lascia il posto per sdraiarsi nella fila vuotaa accanto. bene mi accomodo anche io! siamo in orario e si arriva a suvarnabhum intorno alle 18.40 ora locale. sbrigare le questioni doganali è cosa molto semplice ma lunga. all'ingresso del paese ti fotografano e ti danno la possibilità di rimanere per 30 giorni senza bisogno di nessun visto. raccolgo il bagaglio e mi avvio all'uscita. il caldo è molto diverso dal medio oriente qui l'umidità si sente molto e anche se la temperatura è di poco al di sotto dei 30 gradi si suda parecchio. dopo aver prelevato ( 10 mila baht circa 200 euro ) vado subito a comprare una sim-card thai in modo da comunicare con i My local contacts, then I read that data communication with the mobile phone has some ridiculous prices and then go to the shop of a trader and I spend all my early baht (299 - about 6 €) for the sim, 149 baht of talk time and 20 hours of internet connection (yeah, yeah 10 euro cents per hour - standard communication edge where it is served! fuck TIM and Vodafone and the other Italian players without a contract makes you almost one euro mega!). second task to try to get to the hotel booked from Italy. I'm overwhelmed and have no idea of \u200b\u200bhow this city and I go back to the taxi rank, of course surrounded by thousands of Thai companies offering shuttle service or names of hotels. first I can find an office tourist information that gives me a map and tells me that the taxi can not cost more than 500 baht to go downtown is a rule for the serive airport which costs 50. I went to the door, take a ticket and accompany me at once to the vehicle that takes me half an hour at the hotel, for 'only' 400 baht. The hotel is phenomenal! I had cost about 60 euro and was worth all of them for our 5-star standard with every type of service. but in hindsight I realized that the first few days I spent in thailand heresy! I could live a week with the same amount. of course, ignorance and the power of the euro makes you believe it's also cheap to spend 10 € by taxi and 60 of the room but if I think that after a week I learned to stay to live in hotels with swimming pools and 6 euro take the minibus to the airport at 100 baht dispiae I have 'wasted' resources in that way. no matter the whole experience. the room is huge with 2 single beds and a buffet of fruit and super view from the 25 'plan. I also left a 50 baht tip to the porter who brought me a suitcase (that jerk who is!). Tomorrow I'm flying to Koh Samui in the early afternoon so I will have enough time for breakfast and put on the Baggage why I call the shower and Moraz (a Butel of Verona, which opened a bar in samui) that gives me some tips on areas Bangkok, there are possibilities beyond the 2-3 red light area and opted to Khaosan Road. easy-way I dress and I go in the lobby where I take a taxi in a few minutes and a few baht leads me to the destination. I read a lot about this road is at the crossroads of Asia, meeting point of millions of backpackers, a mixture of races and cultures from around the world! and so it is! are just over 500 meters of road and the area extends for some way parallel or perpendicular, but no bigger than a small neighborhood of the Italian province (the rounds a couple of times per hour), but the atmosphere is fantastic Thousands of small shops and street vendors sell you any thing new or used mostly of clothing or glasses or false patarrate by tourists but also for travel agents across Asia, restaurants, pubs, guest houses and laundries; and all at ridiculous prices. What you eat peacefully down the street 10-20-30 baht, the accommodations range from 100 to 1000 baht per room, the cocktails are 80-90 baht more expensive, American breakfast at the restaurant around 2 € (eggs, cheese, ham, bread, jam, coffee and juice)! Barucchi then a myriad of services that we offer: taxi drivers, tour the city, tuk-tuk, massage, go-go bars or ping pong show, visas, shopping assistance .. other incredible thing is the ease with which you socialize with people: do not you sit more than two minutes alone in a bar without someone asking you something, aside from the waiter, boys and girls from all over the world who seek to communicate and find out again share their experiences and make new knowledge.
the impact is very strong coming down from the taxi is catapulted into a strange world full of sounds, colors and different people, but less than 5 minutes you feel at home! are part of the world and the world from here.
do a lap pool and a couple of streets around are now 10 and I'm hungry, I eat something in a room down the road and make friends with korean 2 give me a couple of tips for places in the area. then 2 more steps and I left the casino, I find myself in an area a bit 'more thai that Faran (term a bit' pejorative with which the Thais call foreigners West) deep and up to a room full of little people, are the 'single Western There is live music a group of young girls playing music and dancing wild rock the east as a teenager. the boss of the situation (with a thirty year old fat and greasy long hair) is now up to me and offers me a drink that has entered amazed and love the sound, 4 on the local gossip and the area around midnight and I greet him and make my way back to Khaosan. gulliver by one of the most famous clubs in the area here and I find the korean two ballets with them and their friends, fortunately in this country do not smoke inside public places and the air is quite breathable, there are several girls mostly local prostitutes think of how you behave with strangers, but the place is crowded with Americans, Australians, Israelis, Japanese. few Europeans. 2 o'clock I retire tired and keen to learn about this country that intrigued me from the start. tomorrow's flight to Koh Samui and breakfast within 14 to 10. I take the taxi, I'll bring to the royal princess and goodnight players.
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