up early departure for the tour today that includes: a spa, a visit to a temple, step-by chiang rai, arrival at border with Burma and Laos, boat trip to the island on the river that forms the boundary with the three states where there is a market for tourists, crossing the border with Myanmar for those who had visa problems, a visit to the village women giraffe (not the last), return to Chiang-Mai in the evening.
is obvious that the Thai were still asleep when I go for breakfast but now they refuse to prepare but I insist and I tell them I'm late for the trip for which you seek to take something ready. I have time to prepare a couple of biscuits comes the minivan to retrieve them I do have to wait and finish the meal. I get on mezo. the party is as follows: two young Irish boys, an American girl, an elderly New Zealand and an English girl, plus of course the inevitable driving smoker (different from that of yesterday but with the same brand of cigarettes) and the driver! I now take place at the rear of the vehicle and I settle up to the reclining seat: the journey will be long!
after about an hour of 'highway' we stopped at the first stage, a square at the bottom of a swimming pool with thermal water and a small stream to sink your feet and near the road where a fountain of liquid sulfur-boil the eggs with sticks with some sort of big spoon end to immerse the eggs in hot water and wait 10 minutes for it to be ready canonical, strictly to coc (you spell it?). nenache do not have to say that all along the perimeter there are a myriad of the usual junk Banquet for tourists. a footbath and a 'hard ovo' and again, before thankfully I can also defecate in Thailand know you never know .. I learned from the wise Zinga that when you find a decent place it in some countries take advantage of it because you never know when you will be able to find another ricapitare.
now we wait 3 hours to walk up to chiang-rai! Fortunately, we chat a bit 'and I find that the tour van is also called visa as the opportunity to those who have seen the end to cross the border for another 30 days to get permission to stay in Thai territory. In fact, both Irish and New Zealand are among us for just that: you see it also because they show little interest in things that as we visit (oh my God, not that the fountain with the eggs was the maximum of Thai tourism but the rest was not bad). then stop at a Tepli the outskirts of the town's capital region settentrinale Thailand, the site is one of many, about a hundred of that area and one of the oldest in this guide. in fact there are many ruins Tuttintorno and the main building is a colonnade of stone ruins rebuilt wooden half to show the difference between the most ancient and restored the statue of Buddha is very large as well as the area surrounding the area . the usual half an hour and then again: 2 more hours to get to the golden triangle! is named the boundary between Burma, Laos and Thailand as the river that borders the three countries form a sort of three-pointed star. then in the center of this bifurcation is an island in Lao territory, where they just placed a rich market 'tax free' for tourists. not to say they sell the same things as opposed to some other items like t-shirts are not the tiger or Chang (Thai beer), but the laobeer, and then sell after I made you try the famous grappa with the snake should have unique effects on both male and female sexual performance! I have tried and it was just very strong, but because of a lack of raw material to test the product! to reach the island take a boat that goes around the area before moving to the market and a voice explains the different parts of the border: the Burmese side is famous for gambling is strictly forbidden in Thailand and maybe this is much appreciated by his people, the Thai side famous for brothels forbidden in the Muslim part of Myanmar and Laos known for the low cost of living and the opium dens. short sex, drugs and gambling, three products that never go out of fashion! we are an island Oretta between the various stalls then the boat takes us back in Thailand, the price of the vessel was not included in the tour even if there had in fact said some people have crooked 'nose to the request for 200 baht then another 100 for the boat to travel abroad with the fee stamp in the passport showing a triangle and an elephant! back to Thailand is the time of the visa, but not before a stop a couple of hours for lunch in a restaurant, with adjoining market .. go to the border with Myanmar in the most northern town about an hour from the Golden Triangle. is a village of a few thousand souls with a bridge a hundred meters connecting the two states, from the Thai market is obviously junk, but this time with things a little 'different and very low prices. I got carried away and bought a pair of glasses in less than 80 baht, ryban! I also met a German girl, there 6 months for a project to help orphaned children in a local school .. poor six months in that place! told me that she arrived a few weeks ago and I was the first Western person to talk to. the area does not offer much apart from the brothels to the Burmese and Thai for the casino the other side, ah .. and the market. are the minimum necessary for the operations of immigration and then another hour drive to reach the last stage before the return, the village women with better market boom! ENOUGH! in 'sun' 2 hours but as I arrive at your destination and New Zealand had not paid the fee to the village we 'touch' wait downstream but the guide gives us a special price to join the expedition, only € 5 each for see the ladies. Clearly defiladed and we get to wait for the others near the minivan, is the sixth time is the mosquito! to avoid being killed by mosquitoes take refuge in the van to sleep. Fortunately, the boys return infretta and now we will have 'only' the monster final 3 hours and a half way back. boredom is maximum and it's dark now, luckily I can get some sleep '.
finally are when we arrive at the hotel are 10 and have a hunger buffalo Vietnamese. greet you all and hope to never see them again (kidding), then back to room to pack your bags, tomorrow morning you go back to BKK! quick shower and go out for dinner, is a bit 'late and I'm afraid that I give to eat so I go to my shack along the walls of trust I know it's open late. In fact, I make a feast of Thai and pad it down a liter of chang but all too quickly I feel like a sack full and not at all drunk! just enough time to get to the night market then begins to rain, fortunately, not like yesterday. I drink another beer on the street and decide to return to the hotel 14 hours of the trip were really heavy and grappa snake had already finished the invigorating effect. the usual hookers on the street trying to convince me for a short-time but also not wanting to believe that we would run away in the hotel management. prepare a quick shower and then split the last things on the bed until the morning! good night, good night!
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