February 22, 2007

  • Rolling Down the River

    So bright and early the next morning, Koh, Ward and I began our 3 day 2 night excursion into the countryside of thailand visiting many a rural and jungly site along the way. Again, in an effort to hold your attention, i will be posting by activity and not by the full day as that many pics per post would take way too long to load.

    So the first stop was located in kanchanaburi about 2.5 hours drive from bangkok in morning traffic

    But what is a floating market you may wonder? In my head, I had visions of hopping from rowboat to rowboat to purchase produce while around me paddled thai people and crocodiles in the middle of the jungle. Then again, we all know i have an overactive imagination. In reality, the floating market of damnoen saduak is a tourist craft market in this day and age, but it was still a very unique one and no less cool for that, and there was still produce to be found. But I digress. lets begin, shall we?


    The travelers-and yes I am well aware i look short in said company and no it is not due to any perspective or camera tricks. Koh is just a giant of a man


    And our transport to, from, and around the floating market. Can you imagine what it is like to ride in one of those things? Well if not, here you go!


    And my obligatory traveling pose

    All the houses are built on stilts along the river, presumably so they do not float away or get submerged during the rainy season. FYI: Thailand has 3 seasons, hot, cold and rainy. The week i traveled there was the end of the cold season. during which time the coldest temp i felt was 86 degrees farenheit with about 30% humidity. Native Thai people would die in chicago.

    The morning commute. Cmon, sing with me now. left a good job in the city

    workin for the man every night and day

    but i never lost one minute of sleeping, worrying bout the way things might have been

    vendors keep on rowin

    tourists, hope their money keep burning

    cuz we rolling

    rollin
     
    rolling on a river

    OMG! Snakes on A Josh!

    Snake Break times 2

    Feather Boas are for pussies

    Ah a good start to the trip. Now to bid goodbye to our driver and set off deeper into the jungle

    there you have it folks, every asian person is genetically programmed to do this when a camera is pointed at them

    Next Stop: Buddhists and Tigers and prayers-oh my!

    -J

Comments (3)

  • I'm still a little confused as to where the "floating" part comes from. I figured it would be like the unlicensed vendors in Beijing who would have to run when the cops came by. You know, like the" oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York".

    Still, awesome pictures! I'm gonna show them to my friend from Thailand)

  • hey that video seems really cool.....imagine it going about 60mph...

  • "FYI: Thailand has 3 seasons, hot, cold and rainy."

    Hehehe, that's the seasons they say they have, but my aunt always said "Thailand has 3 seasons, hot, very hot, and damn hot."

    And this might explain why Crystals don't do well in cold weather...although I wasn't born there.

    Also, I'm jealous that the boat you got for the floating market was so big, nice, and covered! Once when I was little we had what appeared to be a canoe with a motor and it somehow was filled with ants... which since my diet consisted (and still does consist) mostly of sugar was a very very bad thing. I ended up completely red from sunburn and ant bites.

    Did you buy anything at the market?

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