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Saturday October 17, 2009 - Bangkok

After the beautiful summer in Salento I'm back on the road, the first destination Thailand. Compared to last trip there 's a major news': for this first month I'm traveling with Michael, a friend in London, than having to go to Australia has decided to have the first four weeks here, and then begin his adventure.
So as I said Thailand, the idea of \u200b\u200bexploring a bit 'all over the south-east Asia. For me this is' part of the world completely foreign to discover and then, light years away from western culture.

Tuesday '20 October 2009 - Bangkok

Bangkok had to define a few words, I would say and that 'a market in endless road and very smoky, but that' it would be quite an understatement. In this great city ', within a few meters, fine Buddhist temples coexist with high grattaciali and popular areas that remind me of the return in the second world. For road traffic, smog, heat and humidity 'are boulders on his head, and all the' but 'softened, in fact, the presence of a thousand markets which are very common economic status and the kindness of local people.

Bangkok of course you can 'fully enjoy Thai food and Asia in general. I must say that for the moment seems fairly good, but 'about it I have to admit that the Central American triumphs. Matter of taste. Among other things, not the few times that I have to make do with chopsticks instead of Leng of the most 'ordinary cutlery. The first time a real tragedy that is to keep the hunger!

Chinatown, the Chinese district, where he sells everything and more ', and' perhaps the area more 'living city' during the day, and it seems to be in an anthill .

Wandering the streets in tuc-tuc (local taxis) masks to breathe not to be redundant ... How to smoke a cigarette without even a fumarne!

air we breathe but certainly different in many temples (in Thai: Wat) of the city '. In this extraordinary setting of worship, surrounded by meticulous art of gardening that makes it even more 'unreal and mystical and containing gold statues of Buddha sometimes giant reigns tranquility ', silence and meditation. In these places you get little (actually 'around here you get poor everywhere), and once inside, the prayer takes place sitting on the floor, or better on a soft red carpet going to buy the entire surface of the temple. The monks, with their famous orange robes, are the custodians of these holy places, among other things, always available to tourists, even if in fact the English is not 'their forte. Most
'War is majestic and beautiful Arun, Wat Pho, and Wat Wat Suthat Ratchbophit.

If there 'but' in this country an almost more 'present of the Buddha, and' that the King and Queen. All, ignoring the real name of the kimono Re number IX, and 'worshiped as a saint by all people known and precisely, its image from roads to homes and 'almost everywhere.