Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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Phnom Penh Cambodge, une ville de paix

Friday, February 5, 2010, departure to Phnom Penh.
I wake up with terrible back pain at the point of not knowing if I could wear my backpack or even support the bus. At the pharmacy, "I have backache" enough for the girl of 15 who keeps his shop, while his mother Papotti with a friend, I brought back from ibuprofen 400, this has got to go!?, a good dose of anti-inflammatory!
I leave Koh Kong at the back of a bus beside a mother and her 2 kids, dressed in pajamas like many women in Cambodia (it seems that it is the women's clothing but it is mostly Khmer a real pajamas, have you even rabbits or teddy
above :-) I hesitated to go, this small quiet town and very pleasant, waterfalls has 20 pins that I could make bike and one turn at a nearby beach with no tourists it was tempting, but it is time to move.



The journey still remember enormously Guyana and vegetation between Cayenne and Kourou, the wooden barracks, sometimes on stilts, half finished, the system still D everywhere. On the long road, every 500m, a sign warns of mines red if you entered the space, AC reassuring.



After 6 o'clock, we reach the outskirts of Phnom Penh, huge factories and some workers in uniform to make their break, I'm curious and probably sick of how they earn and how much bossent.

center of Phnom Penh is not so large and the buildings are the size of those of a small town in our province. Lots of scooters and motorcycles, normal, as in India, it's cheaper and + fast and traffic is just as dangerous if you cross a street, better not stop on its tracks if they encounter too close to the drivers who had been anticipating our crossing.



I found a room at $ 5, it is cheaper but it would be in the neighborhood and tourists while the rest would become too expensive. It is often like that, if the neighborhood is not touristy, hotels are a bit more expensive and life is at local rates, but if it is tourist guesthouses fight and have good prices but the Besides, restaurants, tuk-tuk ... are not and can not think of tourists and local vendors, and both say that the report is never very frank. So my room was $ 5 is the luxury, I was not expecting it but I have 2 very large stakes, satellite tv, towel provided with toothbrush, toothpaste and soap! I walk around and falls on a pizza, but I keep going hard and trace, really expensive. A fried chicken in the restaurant next to the guesthouse, it smells a bit of old France in this restaurant, run by Chinese, necessarily, funny ^ ^, is full of backpackers, these guys have done a hell of a long road , it reads on their faces.

Saturday, February 6, 2010, motorcycle taxi to the Pasteur Institute for the 4th anti-rabies injection, I am greeted by a nurse who speaks french, in fact everything here is written in Cambodian, french and english.
Then, towards the palace but it closes it is noon for a fun spot but it reminds the public servants french ... (Yes, me first ^ ^).

I go see Tuol Sieng Museum, a former high school that was transformed into a prison and torture center by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, the 1st explanations of the guide (boy he was forced to clean these torture chambers), are Following violent and shocking in that classroom, with a bed of scrap metal bar or two slip rings to hold the feet and the metal box as a toilet.



Prisoners were tortured 3 times a day until unconsciousness for at least 2 weeks and then shipped a Killing Field for execution, and I do not go see that place. No reason, just a doubt about their silence, they were taken him here under the pretext of training, some even smiling in the pictures on arrival meant it to find something beneficial here. I would like 5 minutes before leaving this room full of pictures.



like that of this young woman too beautiful, Tortured dead without reason or explanation of this man, one of seven survivors, who explains his ordeal with a smile. So many deaths, much suffering, so much willingness to suffer, is not horrible enough.



I go on foot, need to take the air and passes through small steps in the small streets, this city is so pleasant, we quickly found a corner very quiet, like a huge town, and those smiles so frequent, exchanges simple and pleasant, people are open, friendly, humble, reserved and even shy, friendly, warm, soft AC resume well, that's good.



I then visited the palace, both of gold, a game is prohibited, residence of the king. What a contrast even after Sieng Tuol ...

Back foot, the best way to discover and know the city, a little Internet to swing Ko Chang this Island, beach, palm trees and sunshine that I've already forgotten (but not its meetings).
Dining in the street, I hear a guy explain that Capitol, this neighborhood center where I live, is still a pure right corner of travelers. Fries and salad, I'm still disgusted with the meat from this afternoon, I felt at Tuol Sieng is still anchor.



Sunday, February 7, 2010. Direction the Russian market, Gave to buy stuff and send metropolis.
I go to a hospital for children, keep a few hours, a girl of 5 years. Here, caregivers do that care and do not mind the needs for grooming or eating, and Yolles, an orphan aged 5 years, has not the right to walk and need someone constantly. Too cute and prankster, she really that character kids who have already seen too much, as these street children in Kathmandu.

Surprise, I had made some small erraflures on the ankle, passing between the two chairs during the games has an orphanage last Thursday, I did not pay attention or disinfected, and yesterday one of they woke, ankle swelling + in + big pain, too hard to market, and that falls on the day I keep Yolles, imagine if I had to take him to the bathroom, bring one arm lift the infusion of the other door, and walk with a limp for a half to reach the toilet, have the 4h long been waiting for the volunteer who had taken over so I can have my turn to go hosto, one of Phnom Penh.

Calmette hospital, another sacred song, not reassuring that big room full of beds with wheels in all directions, some glances jévite too cynical and watch what happens to them. It sends me into a small room with a nurse a little awkward, he looks for gas sterilized tweezers and ditto for my already dry cleaned the wound but my ankle is swollen like a balloon, I could not remember what has point it might be painful to clean an infected wound. I stick a plaster on a pad, my request $ 5, I file a prescription for pain and infection, and told me to come back in two days to change the dressing and no shower in the meantime. I take what is pharmacy, two days without a shower is not possible here and I intend to clean the wound and change dressing at least once a day, I experience ... Back to the motorcycle taxi, like all my trips here, I'm feverish pain, it's been a while since I had not lived ca.
Decidedly, medical document I used to Asia, go, a report of 2 weeks: gastrointestinal, angina, and bite anti-rabies injections, backache rifle, wound infection of a single point of difficulty in walking. I do everything at the same time after I'm tanquille is this??

Monday, February 8, my ankle has not improved, still swollen, but no pain during the night to rest. Well, I will not move before a program screen of the Internet has finally answer every email waiting. Amazing how time passes very quickly and we lose it very easily on the net, and I Gave again. At lunchtime, do not tell my doctor, I go into the streets by side and find a large covered market, just one example, an alley in order: a seller of rice, then a seller of TV and DVD player, then a hairdresser, then a jeweler, then a deli ... I feast on a small stand in front of one of the inputs, frying and salad choices with some cucumber slices dipped in this sauce white vinegar / sweet and already adored in Guyana.



Tuesday, January 9, breakfast as yesterday, coffee ice as it is good here, and fresh fruit salad (Baban, pineapples, orange, guava) and a chocolate bread not yucky, yes colonisaion of french has left the memories like that too.

At the other end of the table, the french 50aine talks with the Khmer also 50aine and a young girl of 23 years. He said the girl was 50, which in my opinion it organizes meetings to marry, he can not marry this girl Culturally Diverse (really very nice way) because she is not educated, do not speak English, and do not read. It was impossible to share them during the few moments he spends with and it is a bit annoying. He wants to meet educated women who speak English, he asked the woman to bring him to apologize for not marry but he can not marry a woman with whom he will not speak and she also is too young for him. The young, understanding, has a look jaded and still throws me more and more peeps, yes I know, my natural charm ^ ^

I digitize my queue continue to kill, internet, internet, internet or how to pass the time sitting, it reminds me all the time that I was losing strength during the two years of work stoppage, was unable to walk easily.



Henket I go with a moto-taxi (Yes it's just scooters), see for Vietnam visa, but they ask the dates of entry, and I still have no idea (my beloved liberty), because I am not even gone yet Angkor. Was spun to a small market standing, I find pants lightweight, hand. The saleswoman, Huang, speaks English. She sells clothes the day and evening from 17 to 20h it goes to university to study economics for later work in a bank. The education here is the only solution, she learned English for four months and is already doing very well. I'm leaving with a fute to 1.5 euros. I then spun

Ounalom Wat has a large Buddhist center in the center. I walk into a small temple, and am now greeted by an old gentleman who opens the door, with a Buddha at the bottom and 1 on each side. Synchronicity ...
What I love here is the simplicity in this image of Buddhism, much less fuss than around a few temples that I saw in France. Here the stupa, you live next door, then you will put away the brooms, and the shower is behind, but it takes up space on the terrace anyway ^ ^ Buddhism is so ubiquitous, it is natural and familiar, like the monks who come to beg in the streets in the morning, or all of these young people dressed in orange, that I ran across the tracks on the north, in the backwoods ...



Wednesday, February 10 2010, my ankle did not change, I may be a little too much walking, in any case is ... swells, can no more! I'm off this time at the private clinic that I recommend. Hope Staphylococcus aureus multidrug special "Remember Guyana" is not returned.
fact is different from the public hospital. After a quick test temperature before entering, it opens the door, greeted by 3 very nice hostesses, secretaries uh sorry, but as it makes you want to return. Here everything seems new, sanitizing, nikel pooooovre to host a European patient. I see a doctor almost immediately, the treatment I took for 3 days has no effect, it puts me on a drip 1 / 2 hour with a powerful antibiotic that I replay the coming days and if nothing changes in 2 days, changing product, we'll go try that, guinea pig session!
1h after I leave my break infusion, the consultation is $ 75 here, not the same as me that the $ 5 bills for me the hosto disinfect, bandage and put a spin me an order, go, gonna ^ ^
Day march has glandouiller, is not really that I walk.
Come on, tonight I go get a massage. I came across a massage center, run by Chinese. The masseuse speaks only Chinese and the massage is nothing extraordinary, not bad but far from Valloire Javanese massage I had was Paramaribo and I want to learn Java has ... At the end, I file the planned $ 6 and request a tip. I am willing to spin a small thing, but $ 6 is already well paid for this massage not great, I leave a small tip and irritated by the Chinese not enough according to her. While I emerge just massage, it's hard to see this girl who was annoyed because she herself is not full of gold coins and more as I am European and filthy rich! I go really disappointed, massage, the masseuse, the center, I would know for next time. And next time it will be deemed massage center facts not blind.
excellent dinner, pasta, with a mixture of eggs, a saice excellent and crisp vegetables.
A round-cutter objectives, I arrive just before a show and 2 girls open for me, it's really done everything to a max of customers here, and there is a 10aine salons in the same street. To be cut chveux in Phnom Penh, it must be in the neighborhood. The guy goes directly to work, to start with scissors, then a mechanical hand mower, then the engine was finally used it without even taking her comb as a shoe, and the job is nikel for $ 2 and 20 minutes.

Thursday, February 11, for breakfast, I returned to the clinic to infuse me this special mixture of deflation of the foot (ankle also yes I know ^ ^ is the side effect of the blog ca). Then I go see if I find a massage center, masseurs are blind and the center shall be deemed, but I do not find it. I walk around here has tourists, riverside, hoping to find fresh sandwiches, but at what I find does not tempt me ...


Must admit that this sauterrelles fried, or beetles or water snakes I have not often seen elsewhere in this corner tourists, surely something that works in the late evening and with the "you're not heading!"

I pass a supermarket, between (yeah j'adoooore shopping) and I see the dream for weeks, a wand, and Roquefort, and it will be a good sandwich for lunch, has a price but for a Barje After ca not refuse. Back up to the guesthouse, I but should not take a sick motodop every trip and I was not sore foot though it will not help to deflate. sandoche in my room before the movie Wolverine Magneticman cons or something like that on the satellite. And me today, glandouille on the net again after a nap.

Friday, February 12, infusion again, my foot a little less swollen. Rental bike, and walk me to the streets in Pedro. Nothing exciting, it quickly while I queue!

Saturday, February 13, 2009
I queue at the clinic last hot date, last infusion, my foot has resumed its normal size, and I left with a lot of cachetons ... a bike, do not tell the doctor who said "no steps or bike."
Everything is closed for Chinese New Year (and Tibetan!) And Cambodian benefit to ask to leave after noon, and it's a luxury.
I go by bicycle to the Russian Market, a corner where there are vegetables, snacks not necessarily a very tempting first sight, and full of souvenir stalls, and I regale in an alley, with lots of small objects I negotiated hard, often with a great smile face like mine, too nice to do good business here.

Sunday, February 14. I walk with the anchor screwed into any direction for 3-year anniversary coronation and nice charts!
I took a bus ticket to Siem Reap but would stop halfway, has Kompung Thom. A little village with a road that goes north, these corners not tourist trails and small roads to get high, to sleep with the locals and visiting temples or draw back is sometimes alone in the jungle, a real scenario díndiana jones, and all that I tell you next time, in any case it will be a coronation full of images and emotions.

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Happy Valentine!
And on my side, it is with all the love I have for my uncle always Alain who left while I was the first track on the northern Cambodia and Monday must see this magnificent first temple stood up by the roots a tall tree, humble and kind, like my uncle.
Hi uncle!

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Como Fazer O Bracelete De Jeff Hardy

Cambodia - Koh Kong and the White Elephant Orphanage



Tuesday, February 2, 2010, departing for Cambodia, I left Ko Chang, the Thai island paradise for lovers of fiestas and lazy sunny. I slept 4 hours, evening departure from Ko Chang obliges, and the road will be long.
It's good to be lulled by the hum of the ferry, I fall asleep already. The taxi driver baratine me that my ticket does not go to the border, but he stopped quickly, seeing that I am in no mood to negotiate a joke or this morning. I fall asleep on the road to the border after chatting with my neighbor's mini-bus, Haiden, a Turk who arrives in India for 2 years and go on southern Cambodia, the same sauce as Ko Chang, sun and relaxation: - /

on the Cambodian border, customs officers ask me 1200 Baht, or $ 36 while the normal price of the visa is $ 20, I was accused. Even the Lonely Planet guide warns that it is impossible to pay less, but the association that I joined me a little rundown of arrival, stress and try to pay $ 20 only difficult but possible. I grumble with customs and starts to get tired of these greedy, and even officials. I'm exhausted, my 4 hours of sleep and a few beers the night before should give me an unpleasant mouth sacrament. A customs asks me to put a time on the sidelines, and I see they want to pay 1200 baht and be done with all the other tourists who line up before starting to negotiate with me. After 1 / 2 hour after they scam the tourists present, they make me finally VISA, I did not loose the piece, the 16 dollars more is almost a week of hotel here, and for the meager pay of customs officers is a very good pension.

The tuk-tuk to Koh Kong is not evil abyss, AC is in the mood Cambodia. This short journey from the border to the city is full of emotions, not only that reminds me enormously Guyana, with its warmth, simplicity, the system of local ambience, mentality, it's more that this direction I wanted take the lease from a coronation. Not specially Koh Kong and Cambodia, but to continue my trip to the dotting of the raids or I can.



I arrived in Koh Kong, a tiny town, we take a small dirt road and arrived at an orphanage. A 20aine of kids are playing outside. They stop me doing big hello, clasping hands (chomisoa) with a huge smile! How welcome, then they do not even waiting for me and do not know me! Immediately, barely down from the tuk-tuk, three children come to the gate to take my hand to get me. They are accustomed to what the volunteers come to spend time with them one day, one month, and they need it.



I would spend the afternoon with them and after Sandrine, the volunteer facilitator for 1 month. Lots of times I smile, it takes my hand, you want a hug, it's really troubling, children who have no parents, or so I'm not accustomed to children, simply ^ ^. I rent a bike
was leaving the association and ask me in a cheap guest house has 3 dollars a night at the Neptune Guesthouse (Thomas 011 984 512 for the pub). And a few in a small cyber internet, or I'm working on the blog from Bangkok and there's a job.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010, cafe snack too much sugar in one of the simplest is a small countertop edge street and behind a house on Pilotti, crowded below, a family. I leave my torn shorts and no button for the tailor who wonder only 30 Baht, so little! 1 lap to search for bananas for children at the orphanage in the covered market, you fit a new strap on my watch Taiwanese bought in Suriname. I love lost between the different parts of the market, meat, shoes, bazard, fish, jewelry, fruits and vegetables so close, it's dense.



Internet to finish the blog from Bangkok, a very spicy sandwich by mistake was wanting to test a chilli sauce but this one is super strong, the sandwich is almost like a bread in France, with meat, vegetables and a little jam in the bottom .. not bad, all accompanied by the traditional green papaya salad, which I love!
Little nap after eating, it's good to find patterns of Guyana in the heat, then towards the orphanage. Even a home full of smiles, a few games with the children. Some kids test me a little, normal, but it is mostly a lot of love in these exchange smiles. The evening dinner chicken noodles on the street, I was a kid offers a beggar sharing with 2 others, too bad they can not be all supported by a generous area in an association.

Thursday, February 4, 2010, bike ride, snack street or I find a faux bread with jam not bad buying a bus ticket to Phnom Penh that I manage to negotiate the $ 5 regular price, then pay the equivalent of $ 6 because I pay in Riels. Here we pay in dollars, Thai baht or Cambodian riel, by having it on almost all exchange rates not rounded as possible. I spin a few gold coins to an American of Cambodian origin who says he made me steal his bag of money and need to sleep in Phnom Penh and then go to the embassy the next day, I never or rarely queues of money on pitches like that, I hesitate and then choose to believe. Not easy after all panky I've heard since the beginning of the journey. Myself but my bag was stolen in Brazil and have had some good shots of hands and to be on the momentum generated with the changeover to the orphanage, it makes me look like something that should have a big heart or a beautiful naivete

:-) I buy a bottle of coca 10aine for celebration and games starting Sandrine who leaves the orphanage tomorrow. The french couple who took over from the animation for one month comes at the same time as the games begin, it has as much fun as the kids.





White Elephant The association takes care of the orphanage and 25 children, from the smallest to the largest 2 years who was 18 if I'm not mistaken and it is really great to create more joy and good projects for the lads. Tari, a Cambodian converted dietician, child care and meals, she lives on site and there are one or more volunteers who lead and care for children when not at school.
the evening, dinner excellent, Tari is a blue ribbon and curry is delicious. The children dance and sing on the TV tubes on DVD. I tell them goodbye, I do not see them again probably.
I sentence myself to leave, a small town like Koh Kong, quiet and with this association is a good place to ask, but I want to move (as usual) and Phnom Penh will be full of surprises, I already know. So

direction Phnom Penh tomorrow, the capital Cambodian.

Photos of Koh Kong , and the orpherlinat
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Ko Chang, an island paradise?

Departure from Bangkok towards the Cambodian border.
bus with air conditioning, clean, TV and DVD player, a donut and coke served ^ ^, WC, luxury for 250 Baht (5 euro) for 5 hours away. What a difference after the Nepali bus or we should pray for not crash to the ground in a ravine and the driver falls asleep too quickly. The road is somewhat reminiscent of Ceara in Brazil, it's flat, sunny, nothing really interresting to see from this astonishing cleanliness, the organization, everything is as nikel!


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Arrived in Trat, I hesitate because one island is just opposite, Thailand still has a few Baht and 1 hour boat. It would be a shame not to taste the same if it smells 100% tourism and AC may disappoint me after spending 2 weeks Tobago ^ ^. A taxi takes me to 3 banks before finally finding a place to change dollars, as in Cambodia, the dollar is the 2nd monaie after the Riels served in all distributors.



So towards the coast, ferry puis1 after having reserved a bungalow for 200 baht. Arrive in Ko Chang, the share-taxis charge all the other tourists, who go Flights and hotels nearby and do not want to take me to the other end of the island, add a few notes.



My hotel, or rather the bungalow is on the other side of the island, although after the corner of expensive hotels and hoopoe. Tourists with whom I end up making the trip finally stop in one of these hotels in 1300 Baht night against the 200 of my wooden hut, but it far from me dream ^ ^. I go to restaurants, clothes shops, beach bars, bars and prostitutes has lady-boys (who these girls), I already feel a surge of allergy to this corner and ca recall that I am in Thailand. The cottage is 100m from the beach, surrounded by other small bungalows made of scraps of boards in every sense that clog the holes and as far as wood is rotten and the humidity. 1 fan and a mosquito net above the bed that takes up the whole cabin, all this surrounded by palm trees, gas! The sun sets in the moonlight, excellent! I go to swim direct, hot water and transparent, LA, CA and Tobago reminds me tomorrow I would wander around the rocks, under water!



a beer on the beach, while in a bar terrace on the beach as all the bars here, a DJ will prepare and mount the lights and speakers for the night. I'm off to the shower, too pleasant, 4 walls and no sheet metal on top, just lighted by the almost full moon and palm trees around like ceiling. The opportunity also to get a free laundry too bitch for once. I return to the streets to eat less, it is a corner of backpackers (travelers backpack), + young - much as the beginning of the island. 5 or 6 bars "hot" style full body massage, 5 or 6 restaurants, 2 stands diving, clothes, beach easily I choose the restaurant good and cheap, there are tons of local Thai who eat there.



Saturday, January 30, 2010, beach and swimming. After noon snorkling along the coast in the rocks but I do not see anything. Siesta fiesta then. I am also remains tonight as a huge full moon party is on another south island, Thailand, and I wish her good taste in this evening, but I have not had the courage to bear the bank of the American tourists. Arriving on Ko Chang I saw posters for a small fullmoon party tonight, the opportunity to enjoy here. Choke with a "Samsong" mix whiskey + coke + red bull served in a small seal full of straw, he begins to float in torrents and the evening will go under water with a good DJ.


The sign says it all ;-)

Sunday, January 31, 2010, woke up to 15h and it's early for me (no comments please). Beach and relax, I meet a guy who Bourlingue for 5 weeks in Thailand Cambodia, all this wheelchair! It has a concrete moral, always smile, and too jovial, a sacred lesson of life itself!


Did you know that AC can penetrate much rust as a foot crossing tong here?

Monday 1st February 2010, the last day, I turn around and diving here is not interresting, I'm off tomorrow. 3 days of sauce tourist beach, sun, beers, relaxing, fiestas in bars at night, I saturate faster than I thought.



Directorate Cambodia tomorrow, Koh Kong, a small town, there is an orphanage built a new kitchen and I should get electricity for the part.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

When Do You Need Ear Plugs

Bangkok, Thailand, a station wagon full of surprises



Departure for Bangkok, Kathmandu, woke up at 5am, I have a cold, probably from the fever. Waiting for 2 ha airport, but fly to Delhi 2h late (as usual it seems) from Bangkok to blow my correspondence is impossible.
Waiting 8 am and it gives me a place in a direct flight to Bangkok. The Efferalgan codeine has had to help me take I think ^ ^.



The flight to Bangkok, with a view of the Himalayas, has the same height as the clouds, a beautiful way to leave Nepal! The

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arrival in Thailand, the airport is the 3rd largest in the world, hard to describe this great ... building? It would still have 1 / 2 hour on the treadmill to get out and get a taxi. The Kathmandu
contrast is striking, but I am sick and tired already taken this morning, my Creve did not loose, the air is hot here, it reminds me the temperature of the Guiana ... I agree Bankok center, the road is a highway 2x5 channels with commercials than 100m wide along the route.
Thewet I arrive, a district deemed quiet and cheap compared to other chaotic as + chinatown with which I hesitated, Kao San road or an area 100% tourists no question Thewet be perfect to rest. I have a room at 250 Bat, 5 euros is not cheap and AC looks like the price was mini here.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010, woke up at 7 am because of my belly bulk, as usual for two weeks, I ask how to see a doctor and the only solution is the hospital.



first tuk-tuk ride for 60 Bat, these devices that resemble rikshaw Indian engine but more nervous, probably more lightweight, in any case wider (like roads), but less comfortable. I'm waiting for my turn to the doctor, was asleep, too feeble even though I do not have a fever after the nurse. The doctor found an infection seen in my stomach pain by touching it. Not surprisingly after all these corners so rich in good food cheap and good microbes burbot in Nepal. But the doctor wants to see me coughing and also test my blood because there is a risk of contamination by a so-called "influenza", a microbe I did not know where they speak English as badly as me so we do not include masses. Analysis in all genres, and I await the result being still a little anxious because the doctor asked me to stay in the hosto if my blood contains this bug!

(1 mocking, I coughed in his next post!)

The result is OK, and someone finally explained to me that the analysis they did was to find out if I had the H1N1 wicked, I finally understand what they were testing time I bring this bacterium or from I do not know. I can now remove the mask that protects my circle of my hypothetical monstrous germs
^ ^ I am leaving with a big dose of antibiosis combines big for my throat infection gastrointestinal well bodied.

I take a scooter-taxi (+ Fast and the - expensive) if I have an accident, the most dangerous in the present case will probably be too thin plastic helmet that door. Chinatown Branch, a name that is dreaming. The traffic is very fluid, the streets are wide, one-way, 2 or 3 channels, clean and clear. What a contrast after Kathmandu!



Chinatown is full of narrow streets full of stalls selling everything! I even had trouble finding pumps, here is instead of wholesalers, the first would not sell me less than 6! Back
by express boat on the river Mae Nam, and the river is also a sacred axis navigation, small boat in the shape of this canoe with big engine in the rear that the boatman may raise risk if the propeller to move on a floating object too big, to gravel barges that feeds the yards in town.


Arrive Thewet, people just give bread to a school of fish used to come and gorge themselves at home is rather Some pigeons are fat.
Internet in a cyber chair semi-extension, 21-inch 16:9 screen, computer overboosted RAM and processor, an impressive amount of games PRELOADED, full of kids CONNECTED parts online gaming, large flow of internet connection, another coronation contrast Kathmandu. It is indeed a city full of hi-tech.



Dinner in a snack bar near the hotel, excellent, a simple dish of noodles, sticky, soaking in a soup, 40 Baht, 80 c euro.

Thursday, January 21, 2010, the district executive or everything was cheap.



Stands sidewalks on each side and behind the shops, halls, towers, themselves barred with shops and stalls. Prices sometimes as metropolis and other times really very interresting. Every time I negotiated too, the seller makes a kind of plaintive wail. A mall gives me a new SD card brand and a battery charger, a wealth of technology, my brother will enjoy here!



I finished last with a 7-storey shopping center, close to 400m long and wide enough for 4 alleys, incredible! A palace of consumption.
Back exhausts with a tuk-tuk. I stopped before finishing the guesthouse was thinking but I mixed up my bearings, I 'm still far away and I get lost somewhere between the narrow streets until you see a bridge that I recognize to be happening underneath boat yesterday. I spin but falls into a cul de sac. Standing out in a pack of dogs barking behind me and I do not take care. They are already on me and one of them bites me till the blood before I do the hunting. A beautiful sanguinolent wound. I returned to my room disinfect but the boss of the hotel told me that if I want to be a werewolf tomorrow I'd better go in the hospital, you never know what crap or what I could surprise chopper j 'would have to wake up tomorrow ...
Branch hospital, I know, I even have the card yet barcode with my info, I'm in luck! Hosto a 23h, after a small dish of noodles sticky peanut sauce all the same (hmmm this Thai food, I imagined not so good). After the dressing, it injects the first dose of vaccine against rabies. I would have to do another 4 stalls for 1 month and a half. So I right that this vaccine before leaving I felt useless, so I thought I'd watch out for the wild dogs in the Nepalese countryside, you're talking! I'm good to go 4 times has hosto find a dose of magic potion, next Sunday here in Bangkok, but the next may be in a hosto in the north, and the following ... Laos? Vietnam? Inshallah!
Back at the hotel, I make a chocolate milk from the grocery store open 24 / 7, makes me sleep well and the chocolate is good when we stopped the fags. Only I did not see that chocolate is loaded with vitamins special breakfast, it boosts me like a Red Bull, it's 1.30am, I have no desire to pioncer ... Reminds me of my last inspection job or take a day I think INFU Granny to sleep when I stopped the fags, but it was an Energy Tea, no sleep either! After reading, writing, and finally made a walk on the jetty going to drink a beer myself, I return my kip, it is 4am.

Friday, January 22, 2010, woke up at 6am, 2 hours after sunset, feeling sick. I'm trying to force me, nothing comes out, I am back kip until 9am. I did not remember at 4am with the cachetons I take, the nurse told me well not to drink alcohol. Day
bulk head. I visit MBK Center, another shopping center or should I find cheap pumps. This Mall is full of tourists, I see a camera Lumix ZS3 to 200 euros instead of 280 euros TZ7 the same I just look on a french site VPC, it's been like compared to my Sanyo bought the most basic in Brazil after the theft of my bag. Still a lot of stalls, stands, business! Evening ended soon after dinner due to lack of sleep :-)

Saturday, January 23, 2010, I send my warm clothes in metropolitan France, the parcels are less Kathmandu's expensive and I have a feeling they are more likely to reach its destination.



I still walk the walk until the Royal Palace, the huge gilded Buddhist monuments, statues of dragons, a palace with a thousand details, impressive, but I'm still too tired and I troll radar .



I continue by boat to Chinatown, photos, purchase dates and dried apricots, I love those stairs made of alleyways too narrow for two people meet and are filled with stalls as food, textiles, plastic gadgets sold the 12aine ....



Sunday, January 24, 2010, rising again to radar because of the stamps. Between those who hunt my Creve angina, those who care my intestines, those who make sure that I not contract rabies and that means that I need to blow my nose every 2 minutes, I'm really ... Gave. Direction the hospital for a 2nd anti-rabies injection, this hosto Bangkok is routine now. Then walk in a walk this weekend. It looks like a huge shopping area with lots of shops rather well prepared for a march this weekend, but still everything is not given.



I finished my day a 2 a time by going to the tourist street in Bangkok, Kao San Road a neighborhood or there are only tourists, expensive prices, and a tourist scams of all kinds. I find a Lonely Planet guide which includes full details about the countries of Southeast Asia, a good mix for not having to buy one of each country. And in this paradise of the copy, the first guide that I found and it was eventually purchased a copy. Very well done, just pictures on paper and less ice, the latest edition as nine to half price in my bag.
I ordered a fried fish restaurant next to the guest house, a treat. A guy eats on the table next to a tourist like me it makes gringue has 2 girls. A beggar comes and sits next to my desk, I will file 10 baht come yesterday, he demands nothing is not embarrassing, just sitting there. After 5 minutes, the tourist from the table beside the saw and decided to make its territory to hunt, as hunting dogs, starting to bawl, up his sleeves. The beggar does not go away and sit on the floor next to me, the guy pretends to get excited, and I do not flinch as he does not touch him. I do not leave the eye and he finally realized he should stop his film and he calms down, keeping his air irritates. AC rather disgusted at seeing a rich hunting dog like a beggar. He just has him spinning 10 Baht, he will leave himself, otherwise he agrees to eat a meal in this restaurant before a dear guy who is hungry and has no money to pay a eat, we are in Thailand, and it is not wealth that runs the streets, even if it's very clean and tidy as Westerners love. I do my preachy but this con really disappointed me, although I probably make the worst of a bunch of times!

Monday, January 25, 2010, up late, feeling better but still ca. I look at the Assos and humanitarian contacts in Cambodia an association of time I can lend a hand in passing, maybe for the electricity of the new kitchen for an orphanage being built, or to change Phnon Penh neons. ..



Ballade in Chinatown to spend the day, boat, I get lost in the lanes and passes through a neighborhood to sell phones. Here the shops that sell the same products all in one place. I hesitate one second to buy a copy of I-phone with terrestrial TV option for 58 euros, the I-phone is worth 400 euros in France it seems ^ ^

Tuesday, January 26, 2010, a tower Sky train, Skytrain, even magical, as in the manga.



I returned to scootertaxi. The scooter makes little strange and I guess shortcuts to avoid traffic as they do sometimes, but it stops in a small street next to 2 guys that I translate it now wants to bring me back 300 baht was under Thewet because there is too much traffic. Another scam, I feigned hurt the guy ennerve (because I do am not too jaded after the scam in India and Nepal, I'm blind) and I plan to leave the yelling, but in my opinion it does not subside. I later regret not having given him a lesson, say yes for 300 beats and spinning him that the sum provided by 80 beats on arrival, to steal a thief ... This will be the next addition to these scammers are all too kind and zen in this country and grandpa who led very cautiously had good will.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010, departing for Cambodia. Reveille was 6:30 by the owner of the guesthouse, I speed till the bus station towards the Cambodian border. I grab a city bus, long drive up to one end of town (there is one in Bangkok reassures AC) a ticket for the bus leaving in just one minute and away! And what a bus! pink curtains prepress Fasteners, comfortable seats as in metropolis, air conditioning, TV, toilet, I must take a picture because after the bus and especially Indian Nepali, the luxury! And
nasty surprise, the screen of my camera died.
Fortunately we are not yet out of the city, and I quit my departure, this would be a shame to travel without taking pictures! And Bangkok is the best place to buy a new camera, and I even know where to go ^ ^ Back
my guesthouse scooter taxi with a driver or the street racing I regale the bag over 10kg back. The very friendly owner, Som, who má already well help to go to the hosto, tell me to go in front if I can not do repairs and change the screen in the neighborhood Thewet. Unfortunately, I can not find a repair of electronics in this neighborhood. Branch MBK Center, a huge shopping mall of 7 floors (with a Pizza Hut in the 7th yes yes ^ ^). Here to repair screen it takes 3 weeks, damage. I could see the quality of the apparatus of friends with whom I toured the Annapurna, a Lumix, Leica lens, and I find the latest model for 2 / 3 of the price sold in France. A nice Christmas present!

Thursday, January 28, 2010, I start with a meeting to hosto, I am still today For this reason, I have an anti-rabies injection has done today. I also want to see a doctor, my left ear is blocked for 5 days and it does not stop as I thought. Matches, middle ear infection, I am not surprised at my medical in Bangkok! Another treatment is to take as I just finished those I had been leading last week!
then I'm going to lose my foot in the streets as jadore do to really discover the cities, and I find that I am a channel, there are several Bangkok, driven by "water buses" is quiet, and it makes me want to settle down, why not build a guest house in one of those tranquil spots filled green, while I am in the heart of Bangkok!



I visit a temple built on a hill



then another temple below, or I am invited for a meal is a celebration of induction of a monk in the temple. I visited Wat Pho finally visits the monuments of Bangkok, a huge temple where I see a statue of Buddha lying on his side, statue of 46m long and 15 tall, impressive, as all temples and stupas around equally beautiful.



Friday, January 29, 2010, I go towards the Cambodian border.
Scooter with an old Raleur until the bus station, apparently there are many such old Raleur after the scammer in scooter last time. He asked me more than expected on arrival, as nearly normal demand, so much fun I'm jaded. Depart by bus, and this time I left, my camera is not stranded.

I hope to come back to Bangkok, I loved the 10 days spent here, even though many times they were tired, it's a place full of rich sensations and really nice even for a great city!

And what is the journey, I will perhaps not happen in Cambodia ...



photos of Bangkok