Or rather dozens of postcards, because in Thailand you can't probably take a bad photo. Nature is the best and the most talented set designer. Each subsequent photo is my favorite holiday postcard.
Late evening in Bangkok. We are reluctant to end wandering around this fascinating city and return to our hotel. We have to pack. It won't take much time - we only have two backpacks and an absolute minimum. Being a backpacker has its undoubted charm. Especially when traveling without children
Packed, we head to the airport, from where we fly to Krabi. However, before we get on the plane we will manage to "season". Air conditioning at the airport is so awesome that we are already landing colds in Krabi. The difference in temperature inside the building and outside is about 20 degrees. For an organism that normally lives in Central Europe, it's really a shock. But the most important thing is that we arrived safely in Krabi and very, very soon we will lie on a white sand, sip drinks with a palm, take a bath and sunbathe. It will be beautiful. At least we thought so. About whether our visions and dreams coincided with reality, whether Ao Nang is our place on earth and whether we will go back there will tell you in today's post.
Late evening in Bangkok. We are reluctant to end wandering around this fascinating city and return to our hotel. We have to pack. It won't take much time - we only have two backpacks and an absolute minimum. Being a backpacker has its undoubted charm. Especially when traveling without children
Packed, we head to the airport, from where we fly to Krabi. However, before we get on the plane we will manage to "season". Air conditioning at the airport is so awesome that we are already landing colds in Krabi. The difference in temperature inside the building and outside is about 20 degrees. For an organism that normally lives in Central Europe, it's really a shock. But the most important thing is that we arrived safely in Krabi and very, very soon we will lie on a white sand, sip drinks with a palm, take a bath and sunbathe. It will be beautiful. At least we thought so. About whether our visions and dreams coincided with reality, whether Ao Nang is our place on earth and whether we will go back there will tell you in today's post.
After a short flight, we landed in Krabi late in the evening. We caught a taxi and went to the previously booked accommodation. We chose the cheap option, close to the airport, because we knew that the next day we would go to the beach. The place where we stayed for the night turned out to be sooooo specificWhen we arrived it was dark, and at the reception sat a gentleman who was so busy climbing the next level in the game that he did not really notice our arrival. He was quite uncomfortable when we knocked on the window, but a moment later we had the keys to our houses in their hands, and in them mega comfortable beds were waiting for us (this is a common feature of all the places where we slept - beds). In our house, apart from the bed, there was also a clogged toilet and cold water in the shower, but who would care about such things, when jet lag is still tired and a man only dreams about going to sleep.
When we arrived it was dark, and at the reception sat a gentleman who was so busy climbing the next level in the game that he did not really notice our arrival. He was quite uncomfortable when we knocked on the window, but a moment later we had the keys to our houses in their hands, and in them mega comfortable beds were waiting for us (this is a common feature of all the places where we slept - beds). In our house, apart from the bed, there was also a clogged toilet and cold water in the shower, but who would care about such things, when jet lag is still tired and a man only dreams about going to sleep.
The next day, the first view after opening the curtains was:
Good morning Thailand !!!
We were hungry! Unfortunately, it turned out that we are in the middle of nowhere, somewhere near the highway and breakfast we are unlikely to see. It's time to get together. Especially since the resort, apart from us, live snakes (one escaped from under my feet), crocodile-sized fish swim in the pond, which almost come out on the shore (yes, it's my imagination), there is nothing to eat or anyone from the service. Ahoy adventure.
The gentleman from the reception did not even go to sleep, after all, the war in his game is still going on, there is no time for a break! At our proposal that he would give us a lift to the city of Krabi for an appropriate fee, he made a face as if we had at least asked for a ride to Poland. What is the opportunity to earn a pretty cool cash in the face of a defeat on a virtual battlefield !? He asked us to order a taxi five times.
He agreed, but returned to his reception on the pretext of finding the keys. When he did not show up for another quarter of an hour, I went for him and of course I found him at the monitor with his army regiment ...
Finally, slightly offended, he took us to Krabi, where we could have breakfast and rent scooters, and then hit the road.
Riding a scooter is so much fun that it's hard to describe. With these scooters we were to traverse Thai roads for the next 5 days and I really tell you it was the best entertainment we could serve. Of course right after eating.
This entertainment also had its weaknesses, namely on the first day of trips on a scooter we burned in the sun to the maximum. We spent the next days instead of a drink with a finger in the shade, dressed from head to toe. Well done stupidity and faith that the sun hidden behind the clouds does not tan. Man learns from mistakes. This mistake was very painful - literally. But let's forget about the bad when you remember photos of SUCH Thai roads, and on these roads tiny pubs with the best food in the world. We stayed in them on average every hour.
Imagine it. You ride your scooter among the densely growing palm trees, whose leaves even drift along the way. When gasoline runs out, you stop at the station and refuel for PLN 6. Then you drive on completely aimlessly and constantly say "but it's beautiful!" When you get hungry, you just stop by the road in the first, better place packed with boards and for another PLN 6 you order something that claims to be the best that you have eaten so far. For me it was noodle in broth with duck meat and vegetables. Good God how delicious it was! Then you go on and stop at an old man who sells fresh, sliced mangoes. Perfect for dessert. And so on. This is more or less the trip on the scooter "unknown where" and "unknown for how long". Only minus? Backs and hands burned from the sun.
In Ao Nang we stayed in a really fantastic apartment. Amazing view from the terrace, two separate bedrooms with huge, comfortable beds and bathrooms and lush vegetation literally entering through each of the windows. It was a really special place and I gave you the link to this apartment in a post HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR FIRST DEPARTURE TO THAILAND?
| It was from this place in the photo above that I took a few grafts of flowers to Poland. This is definitely my favorite souvenir. I'll let you know how many of them are accepted.
And this was our terrace and place for an afternoon chill with iced coffee in hand. All around, fragrant plants stopping the scorching sun, the cooling windmill, the sounds of the jungle and the book in hand. Let this moment last. It's best until we get hungry again.
It's really good to be hungry. We're in a place supposedly with the best food in the world.
The city beach in Ao Nang itself disappointed me a lot. Just like the town itself. We had a really fantastic apartment with a terrace, where it was great to relax, which the jungle even penetrated. However, the town itself is so-so. A sea of tourists and hundreds of huts with souvenirs of dubious quality and beauty. A beach that did not impress me, although I realize that I still compare Thai beaches to those in the Caribbean. Evening Ao Nang is loud and full of tourists. There is a lot of plastic, rumbling music, smells, colors, drunk people and various other strange things. This is not what Tomek and I expected. We, Ao Nang, have made our accommodation a base and a base. Every day we got on the scooter and drove straight ahead. Or we were buying a trip to the islands, or we took a water tram and also sailed to some island. We did not take these trips as if we could and wanted and most of the time sat in the shade dressed from foot to neck. We burned this sun as if we saw them for the first time. To this day, I'm ashamed: /
The water on the land in Ao Nang when the sun was setting had exactly the color like that in our Polish lakes. This real azure appeared only at the islands. Advertising brochures and photos on Instagram often distort colors - you must be aware that this real world is doing on a daily basis without any filter, and the color of the water changes during the day depending on the weather, light and time.
It is really worth leaving the land and these crowds behind and sailing to some island. Such a trip costs a penny (20 PLN one way), and despite the enormity of tourists you can find a quiet corner for rest and sunbathing. It is really beautiful! Provided you look at Thailand and these landscapes, at nature and what it has conjured for millions of years instead of focusing on what is bothering you. At the beginning it can be hard, because everything is obscured by people. Everyone wants to have a photo with a characteristic boat. You frame your photo so that it only has a boat, rock and beautiful water, but in fact about 50 people are waiting for you in the queue to get the same frame. This is more or less the reality.
I am of the opinion that everyone sees the world as they want to see. That's what I stick to when traveling. I try to see good things. When some do not suit me, I try to change them, find a different way, a different perspective.
Thailand is absolutely delightful and beautiful country. I dream of going back there as soon as possible, having more time to discover more remote places. I also dream about this country surviving this tourists' invasion. It is understandable that the whole world wants to visit Thailand. Everyone wants to eat well, admire the islands that have so far watched in movies and experience amazing things. However, I dream that everyone who comes here behaves like a cultural guest, with great respect to the place, to culture and to nature, above all, who does his best to regenerate, but with tens of millions of tourists every year sometimes and its hard.
TRAVELS is a goal that I work for every day. Traveling is something worth spending your last money on. Nothing teaches me so humbly, it doesn't open my eyes to so many things, it doesn't give me so much experience and it doesn't enrich me like traveling.
Finally, I highly recommend you my entry from a few years ago about minimalism in travel. It will be useful if you decide to go. Not only to Thailand
MINIMALISM ON THE TRAVEL
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