Muy Thai!
September 24th, 2010
So today I went to the floating markets, it’s like Venice, Italy with the boats and small canals and jungle like. But they sell things off the boats in the canals. They constantly overcharge you for things because you are a foriegner. I have to haggle for about 5 mins to get the price down. That’s the THAI WAY. It’s usally about 50 % of what they started at. I got some good deals.
Guess, what else I did today? MUY THAI! I went to a gym and practiced for 2 hours with Muay Thai trainers. It was so dirty and had only like 2 walls. But it was fun. I’ve learned that boxing and the attitudes in gyms are the same around the world. Jovial but tough. The guy hit me upside the head a couple of times for fun and kept calling me “OOO NEW YORK CITY”. But they said I was really good.
Well that was bascially my day. I been hanging with this young couple, they are 26-27 and cheap just like me. Therefore we seperate from the old people on the tour bus all day. They pay 50 bucks to go to the floating market and we pay like 10 bucks to go. I like them because they are penny pinchers like me.
I have done soooo much for less that 160 american dollars in Thailand. I mean eating, drinking, touring, souvenirs, taxi. This place is dirt cheap. Especially because you haggle for everything. You know me too, I haggle and then I walk away if I don’t get my price. I’M A TRAINED NEGOTIATOR MANNNN! HAHAHA
On the flip side though, the people are very poor too.
Tomorrow we leave Bangkok with the tour to head to Aythuya, it was the first capital of Thailand. It contains a temple ruin that we are going to see. Oh yeah speaking of temples, I have seen about 5 temples and I am TEMPLED out! They all look the same. Budda here, Budda there, Budda EVERYWHERE. But they are very pretty!
From Aythuya I will be taking a cab to the Bangkok airport on Sunday and then flying to Phuket. Then from Phuket to Bangkok airport on the 28th where I will meet my tour group. FUN TIMES!
Ok I can’t type any longer because my arms are going to fall off from the Muy Thai today.
SA WAT DEE KAH (if you can’t tell, my extent of the Thai language is very minimal) hahah
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