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Travel to SE Asia (part I)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:17:06

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20 January 2000

I arrived in the city of Bangkok Jan 19 2000. I noticed that from the time of my last visit in 1994 the assortment of consumer products sold by street vendors considerably improved. Previously it was only grasshoppers, now you can buy a big black bugs, two types of larvae and whole small frogs fried in a boiling oil. All are $0.25 per bag. Send your order to mumzhiu@yahoo.com!

Alex Mumzhiu
Bangkok Thailand
Jan 20 2000

24 January 2000

Road from Thailand to Angkor Wat is 100 mi. 8 hours butt torturing. These who selected this route are real hard core backpackers. They look, feel and smell like tourists from our student years, the only difference they do not sing song "Hey podryjka moia bolshaia kryjka". They are traveling on very small budget, but traveling for months or years. In Angkor Wat they stay in guest houses for $3 per night. Howard and I stay in very expensive and good local hotel for $13 per night. However we have to learn how to use paperless toilet. Angkor Wat is most significant structure I ever seen, even more impressive then pyramids.

27 January 2000

I am 3-d Russian speaking tourist at Angkor Wat, according to two Russian speaking employee selling tickets. In reality Angkor Wat is easily to reach. From Bangkok only one day and $9. There are no apples and pears here, only Durians (king of fruits), Mangosteen, Dragon fruit, Jack fruit and lots of other which I don't know names.

Best regards
Alex
Jan 27 2000
Angkor Wat Cambodia

28 January 2000

I already left Thailand. I started my trip around Indo-China peninsula from Bangkok with my American/English/Japanese friend Howard Wrathal Jan on 19th, 2000. In Bangkok we observed wide variety of local food: bugs, larvae, grasshoppers. We did not try it, but ask salesperson to show ...