Diaro di viaggio sud-est asiatico (18 luglio-8 agosto 2006) Day 1 - Milan-Bangkok
Departing from London Heathrow at 14.30. Thai flight comfortable, service excellent during the trip I also had time to watch three movies including "The Last Samurai" and "King Kong" just to enter the atmosphere east.
Day 2 - Thailand: Bangkok City
arrive in Bangkok at 6:00. The impact of local food is not 'the best lunch in fact the first stall of a flea market and' s a bit stodgy to say the least, but I will not break down.
Morning visit Buddhist temples and afternoon boat trip on the Chao Praya River.
Evening dinner in a typical Thai restaurant (the waiters very friendly, helpful and always smiling). Back to the hotel
adventure with a taxi driver who did not understand a word of English.
Day 3 - Cambodia: Phnom Penh-Siem Reap
Departure at 7:00 to Phnom Penh (capital of Cambodia).
Visit the Royal Palace (beautiful, but unbearably hot).
In late morning boat trip on Lake Tonle Sap river and visit the villages with Mekog Vietnamese boats.
Lunch at a French restaurant and modern management in the afternoon visit to the prison Toul Sleng (S21) where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge era has killed 17,000 people (2 million deaths throughout Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Dinner fabulous near Mom's guesthouse where we were staying in a restaurant where we had one of the best meals of the holiday based amok and padthai. Known
Chiang (nice person with a permanent smile on his face) and mom.
Day 4 - Cambodia: Angkor Temples Visit with Tuk-Tuk (lucky it was our faithful companion for three days to the tune of $ 4!) To the temples of Angkor (for the most ignorant those in the movie Tomb Raider). Seen in this order:
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Angkor Wat - Ta Prohm (Tomb Raider tree)
Afternoon Khmer massage (you slaughter) and evening dinner in a restaurant run by a French guy.
Day 5 - Cambodia: Angkor Temples
continued our visit to the temples of Angkor with:
- Angkor Thom (the way we got to know many monkey and elephants)
- Other 10 temples that now I will not describe because it would take me 10 websites
the evening dinner buffet (full of Chinese) with a show of Khmer dancers (beautiful)
Day 6 - Thailand: Bangkok-Chiang Mai Chiang
Salutati, Lucky Mom and departure to Bangkok (1 hour flight ).
Taxi and visit the grand temple (beautiful, long pants required) having regard to the Emerald Buddha and the reclining Buddha (45 meters long!) In the Wat Pho temple. In
afternoon stroll at the mall. Took a couple of original diesel at 10 €!
late afternoon flight to Chiang Mai.
Dinner on the road by a former monaco (1 dollar in a discrete two padthai).
around after dinner in the famous market of Chiang Mai (taken pashmina for mom) and then a well-deserved rest at the BA Guesthouse.
Day 7 - Burma-Thailand: Chiang Mai-Mae Sai (Golden Triangle)
Breakfast near to guesthouse. Scene of panic Raffi of exchange for the delirium of exhaustion (he thought he had lost $ 500, but he had already spent 3 days!). Visit the temple of Wat Prah Kew. Around 12
take a bus to Mae Sai. We arrive at sunset, but we still have time to see on a hill near the city a statue of the dalai lama and a scorpion in the most sacred and visit the border with Burma (now in the two states are separated by a river between the mountains).
passage at the golden triangle and fly to Chiang Sean to eat and sleep in the most ugly of vacanza.La room where we sleep of our trip will go down in history as the chamber of Pol Pot Just to be clear empty room with cockroaches everywhere and bloodstain on the floor!
Day 8 - Laos-Thailand: Chiang Saen (Golden Triangle)
After a breakfast and there abbodante taken by the Chamber of Pol Pot, we make a wonderful boat trip on the Mekong River.
On the way to land in Laos and do a little 'shopping in local markets.
Visit to the Buddha on the boat on the Mekong River. Met with two Buddhist monks we exchanged email addresses. Lunch in a restaurant on the Mekong. Scooter rental and fly to the Golden Triangle and visit the hotel anankara (wonderful).
dinner for a thousand and one night to 'sleep and then to the hotel anankara gin's guesthouse.
Day 9 - Thailand: Chiang Saen (Golden Triangle)-Payao
scooter in the morning we go to visit the opium museum (very interesting) until 14:00.
lunch buffet golden triangle very good.
afternoon visit elephants in the park hotel Anankara.
After our wonderful adventure on the golden triangle, take the bus to Payao where the evening we go to eat in a 60's style restaurant with Thai singer and make friends with a nice pair of Thai, but a bit 'crazy . Night at the Lakeview Hotel.
Day 10 - Thailand: Chiang Rai-Payao After a ride in tuk-tuk on the lakeside of Payao, take the bus to Chiang Rai where we have lunch in a beautiful restaurant on the river that runs through Chiang Rai owner Indian very polite and friendly, Rabiangkok Restaurant on 1131 Kraisorasit Rd
afternoon around 4 hours in the ST Motorcycle rented motor which is located next to our guesthouse, through rice paddies and lush vegetation, waterfalls, tribal villages and the Buddha in the rock .
dinner in the same restaurant where we had lunch (there was too much and enjoyed for the first time since we started we can go into a bathroom bright and fragrant!).
Night Sankisk the guesthouse in Chiang Rai.
Day 11 - Thailand: Bangkok-Krabi-Phi Phi Island
Taxi to airport for flight to Krabi with a stopover in Bangkok. Taxi to the port of Krabi and Phi-Phi ship
Don. Durante la cena in un ristorante a lume di candela sul mare, abbiamo conosciuto una coppia di Irlandesi di Dublino (Dermatt e Fiona).Giro in discoteca Happy bar dove assistiamo a uno spettacolo tribale di mangiafuoco. Notte all’up-hill bungalow in cima alla collina per evitare il rischio tsunami.
12° giorno – Tailandia: Phi-phi island Colazione a base di pineapple plumcake e frullato di cocco. La mattina prendiamo una bagnarola che ci porta nella splendida Phi-phi-Lee dove visitiamo la laguna a blu
e arriviamo a nuoto come il miglior di capro a maya bay (spot del film the beach). Rimaniamo estasiati dalla sabbia-borotalco e dal colore blu-verde smeraldo del mare tutto circondato da faraglioni. Come the director says in the film is just the perfect beach! Once back
spend the afternoon at the Phi-Phi resort where we do have a massage for an hour at sunset (unforgettable!). Night to up-hill resort.
Day 13 - Thailand: Phi-Phi Island-thani Surath
the night comes a crazy monsoon. Rain cats and dogs, and we decide to go to Ko Samui to get away from bad weather. Once in Surath Thani where we were to take the boat to Ko Samui met a couple (he in Milan and her Brazilian) that we do not recommend ko samui and advise us to go to two paradise islands in malaysia.
The trip is a bit 'long remain in doubt until the last con già i biglietti per ko samui in mano. Raffi sale sulla barca e io salgo e poi scendo avvertendola che il paradiso ci stava attendendo e avremmo perso l’occasione della nostra vita.
Scendiamo e iniziamo un viaggio che in totale durerà ben 25 ore alla volta della malesia !
Da surath thani prendiamo un taxi che ci porta alla stazione di Pon Pin (il nome è tutto un programma) dove prendiamo un treno all’1 di notte…..
14° giorno – Tailandia-Malesia: Phi-phi island-surath thani Il treno ci mette 11 ore e arriviamo finalmente a Sungai Kolok al confine con la malesia.
Prendiamo un motorino per attraversare il confine e poi un taxi fino a Kuala Besut dove prendiamo a boat in about two hours brings us to the amazing islands Perenthian: Besar (Big Island) and Cecil (small island). Moored on the latter and takes about 1 hour after 25 hours of travel to find a bungalow free! But really it was worth the effort.
Dinner at a restaurant at 5 meters from the beach.
Day 15 - Malaysia: Islands Perenthian the morning we suffered another hotel more convenient and possibly cheaper.
We find that there Moushin Chalet offers discrete bungalow with fan for an acceptable price ($ 20 double).
Lunch at 16:00 at the pit-stop cafe, aside from being a bar, rent books in exchange for a dollar or two of used books. Snorkelling in stunning high risk sunburn protection despite the 30 (in fact the same evening and the next day we were burned). In the evening we dine at our restaurant and exit then we know a very nice pair of Roman (and discover that he was a former basketball player Olimpia Milano). After dinner the disco
Salesian.
Day 16 - Malaysia: Islands Perenthian
Moushin breakfast chalet. At 10:30 we set off for a wonderful trip snorkeling. We saw and swam with
: giant turtles, sharks, black tip of 2 meters, barracudas and napoleon fish. Lunch in the big island (Besar), where Raffi buy a pashmina at a ridiculous price ($ 6). Around 16 land on the beaches of Coral Bay where the local Mandingo gives us a snack of melon and pineapple, just picked from the jungle.
know a couple of English (Robert and Sandra) who work for channel 4 and they were shooting a documentary on post-tsunami.
Dinner at the Panorama restaurant. Dingle and Rachel both known British opera singers.
chat with their friends and then all to bed at moushin chalet.
17 ° -18 ° -19 ° day - Malaysia Islands Perenthian spend three more days of beautiful dragons, IPCC, and marine wildlife of all kinds and sadly, on 6 morning we leave the island at the time of revising for krabi Kuala Besut, Slungai Kolok and recrossing the border with Thailand.
the evening to eat a kind of roadside restaurants on the road a Thai parboiled rice to steam.
o'clock finally arrived in Krabi and stayed at the P. Guesthouse near the port.
Day 20 - Thailand: Krabi-Bangkok-Milan The owner of P Guesthouse offers us a wonderful trip to Railey bay with free climbing lessons. We spend a morning in the company of Samsung (just like the TV!) That teaches the basics of climbing. We are able to rise to 15 meters in height (not bad for the first time!). Very exciting experience. At 14
quickly fury and take a taxi to the airport and go to Bangkok.
Here we head toward the center and let's have a drink Bayoke the tower (the tallest tower in Bangkok, Thailand and the 10th highest in the mondo.Dopo dinner sadly we taxi that takes us to the airport and from there after 11 hours of flight we landed in Milan.
