Kp Hotel Udon Thani

... touriste je veux dire). J'ai flâné dans les temples tranquillement en tachant de me mettre dans la position de celui qui médite. Et bien j'y arrive mieux.. Le thai (enfin lao) massage aide t il ? c'est bien possible ! Cela à été très reposant. Je suis ensuite allée voir des monuments pour finir à l'arc du triomphe local et ses de champs élysées de l'est. Sympa ! J'ai dégusté un nem et un jus d'annanas en regardant le couché du soleil sur le mékong, puis suis ...

... angebauten Ohrenstoepseln zurechtrueckte od** seine Kleidung wechselte. Die Fahrt war dann ganz ok, auch wenn d** Fahr** wohl einen p**soenlichen Geschwindigkeitsrekord aufstellen wollte und mal wied** die Klimaanlage auf -20 Grad gestellt war. Jedenfalls kamen wir dann nach 12 mehr od** we***** **holsamen Stunden in Udon Thani an, jetzt hiess es nur noch auf zur Grenze und dann nach Laos.

... like myself who can't say the real name correctly. This park is full of sculptures of Buddhist and Hindu figures that were made from cement by an excentric artist in the 50's. The coolest sculpture looked like a giant gourd and you could climb inside through a demon-like mouth. There were 3 levels inside that were supposed to represent hell, earth, and heaven. The hell part was pretty freaky, skulls and people being tortured and killed in a ...

... and had made heaven and hell like depictions with larger than life figures. Some of the hell sculptures where quite gruesome with dogs ripping out intestines etc. but it was amazing to see. Later that night we went to a festival in Udon and ate in a traditional Thai style. Our last day in Thailand we traveled north to Nong Khai, visited the market, another Wat with amazing Hindi and Buddist sculptures. Then we crossed into Loas via the Thai-Laos friendship bridge.

In the morning my leg felt a little better, but I had a three hour bus ride to Udonthani in Thailand and then a 14 hour overnight bus ride to Chiang Mai. I arrived in Udonthani after crossing the border and bought my ticket to Chiang Mai and went and sat down. I was stoked that my leg didn't hurt as bad until I finally ...

... Mike promised that things would improve though, and soon I found myself facing the most beautiful temple I have seen in awhile. We drove a small bit farther and into a park... what a beautiful day. For the next couple of hours we rode around under the trees, fed fish, and read our books. That night we rode our bikes beside the Mekong and discovered that the sidewalks were converted into restaurants after ...

... 6 months later seems entirely logical. On the tourist front, we took our bikes to a sculpture park. Intended as a monument to religious belief and understanding, its too higgledy piggledy to be understood at any deep narrative level. But at the level of the basic male need to make pointless stuff and show it off, its deeply fulfilling. The sculptor used concrete ("because its cheap and there's lots of it"), and started of with 2ft high dogs but progressed to an ...

... are working at Mut Mee for the next few months) and Meleek, and generously gave away potential victories by sucking at the wrong moments. I had a conversation/argument with Nick, a former flare bartender from San Francisco, about what should be considered a sport...I would elaboarte on this, but you would just get mad at me too, since my defintion of what a sport is is extremely narrow and apparently "wrong." I talked to Julian for a while ...

... on the roof. The comforting part was that our luggage was insured up to 1000 Baht. About $25 USD. That's comforting, the bag covering our backpacks cost more than that! But an hour later we arrived - with our luggage. A bit sweaty, but we arrived. We stayed at the Pantawee Hotel. The driver of the "limo" said that it was a very nice place. Maybe so. But maybe not. It's not bad, but seemed kinda expensive for what we got. We ...

... ride. The three of us went to this awesome statue garden that had really big Buddhas and other sorts of Thai deities. My favorite statue was the giant Buddha with seven snakes rearing up behind him. The concrete statue was probably 500 feet tall, and the tongues of the snakes were twenty feet long. I felt moved to buy a little pewter statue replica of it half an inch tall. It's cute.