Great, the mainland has resumed overseas travel, Thailand has become the first popular destination for many friends to travel abroad, recently many friends plan to go to Thailand, which reminds me of my first free trip abroad is Thailand, do a strategy before leaving, see people's travels, after all, it is the first free trip, very excited. On the way, I recorded a lot of what I saw and heard and my feelings, and now I share these original copies with friends and friends, although it seems that the writing seemed a little clumsy and naïve at that time, but it really reflects the mood at that time and the experience of playing in Thailand, and it is quite interesting to look at it now.
In December 2014, I saw a friend's Thailand free trip news posted by a friend in the WeChat circle of friends, and the content was updated daily, which was wonderful and interesting, and I was very envious. I thought, if only I followed, the more I looked at it, the more I was moved, and I thought why not try it myself? Easier said than done, English is a big problem, in different language countries, everywhere need to communicate with people, what you say to make people understand, people reply you have to understand what it means, the fur English I learned when I was studying has long been lost to the country of Java, fortunately in the encouragement and substantive guidance of friends, thinking of taking advantage of their not too old age, the only trace of passion and a healthy body, discuss with three friends, open up, nothing will be so decided, Do you call this impulsive? It is said that three stinkers top one Zhuge Liang, how can our four female men be stronger than his old man, haha!
In the following days, under the guidance of friends, make itineraries, visit attractions, book air tickets, accommodation, visas, learn simple and commonly used spoken English, and read the strategy travel notes on the Internet. The preparations were carried out in an orderly manner, and the departure date was ushered in in the anticipation, anxiety and anxiety before leaving.
On February 25, 2015, I took a direct flight from Fuzhou to Suvarnah Airport in Thailand three and a half hours later and arrived at Mangu at 2 pm Thai time, and found an ATM machine before leaving the airport, and I learned before traveling that it is best to use the Huaxia bank card abroad, and the first money is not deducted from the handling fee every day, but the Bank of Thailand deducts 50B for each withdrawal, and takes it on the purple ATM at the airport, the exchange rate is higher, followed by green. Sure enough, at the airport currency exchange office, we saw that the RMB exchange rate was 1:4.49 that day, we looked for a long time and did not see the purple machine, just took it on the green plane, the menu has a Chinese interface, very smoothly took out 10,000 baht per person, and soon received a text message notification from Hua Xia Bank: spending 1944.34 yuan, convert the exchange rate, 1:5.143, which also includes the 50B deducted by the Bank of Thailand, it seems that the homework was not done in vain.
I saw colorful taxis at the exit of the airport, very beautiful, queuing to get tickets, waiting for taxis, it was our turn, the driver looked, the luggage could not be put down, afraid that we would have to use time to get the tickets again, personally got off the bus to help us go to explain to the staff, and took a ticket that could put down the luggage of four people, and then left with a smile. The enthusiasm and civility of the taxi drivers suddenly made us feel good about this country. Remember my friend's instructions, as soon as I got into the taxi, I immediately said ba meter, the meaning of the meter, and then pointed to the English name of the hotel we had prepared to show him, and it took about 40 minutes to arrive at the Khao San Road Friends Hotel, which was about 34 kilometers and charged 420B (including the cost of taxi to the airport 50B).
When we arrived at the hotel, we began to test the effect of our simple English and gestures, the waiter at the front desk is a slender little sister, speaking softly, Thai pronunciation is mostly second and third, speaking in a good tone, she roughly understood what we meant, won the first battle, and increased her confidence. The picture below is the hotel room we stayed in, the room is clean and tidy, fully equipped, especially the elephant with bath towels and towel folded on the bed, exotic jumps into the eye, very warm, it can be seen that the hotel waiter works meticulously and carefully, the plug of the room is flat-headed and plugged, the mobile phone camera brought to the country can be used, no need to switch the switch, however, for the sake of safety, I still brought a universal plug to go.
Our hotel is located on Khao San Road, twin room 426 RMB per night, breakfast included, after arranging accommodation, go out to see the night view.
Business is booming on the street.
Khao San Road, a backpacker's paradise, is also a favorite place for foreigners, and street open-air bars are mostly where foreigners relax. The hotel we stayed in went out to the lively street market, did the check-in procedures, a little tidying up already hungry, went out to find food first, chose a Thai fried noodles, a 30B (equivalent to 6 yuan) when the street swallowed dates, Sven swept away, fried noodles are naturally swept away, after the meal and fancy mangoes, such a package is 20B about 4 yuan, juicy and delicate, sweet and sour, eat into the mouth, full of fragrant.
As soon as the stomach is full, look around the street, there are too many fresh things, you see that a large plate of more than a dozen are scary insects, there are scorpions, cockroaches, and spiders, there are more than a dozen on the plate, caterpillars, silkworm chrysalis, etc., do not let you get close to shoot, otherwise, you are more afraid to see it.
Can spiders also eat? incredible
This is a water cockroach, scary no.
A father and son hesitated for a while in front of the roasted scorpion stall, bought one (100B), the child held it in his hand, I asked the father, does he dare to eat it? He asked me, do you dare to eat it? Haha, it turned out to be bought and played!
The roadside is bustling with local snacks, fruits, bars, foot presses, clothing, trinkets, and people dressed in different skin tones. Considering that we had to get up early the next day, we had to close the stall and do it, so that we planned to stay in this place for three nights and have time to visit again.