We have seen many other tourists and questioned some of the ethics around just traveling to see a place.
In southern Thailand, we have met many European travelers and a number of people from brazil.
Today was the first day we met someone from California.
So many people come here to party. It's an interesting "culture".
Getting off the tourist track would give me a muh better opportunity to get to know the real culture of the area.
I was happy to meet someone today who spoke English and was intersted in chatting.
He was originally From Chiang Mai. He moved to the south after getting married to live with his wife's family. In this area there are many Muslims and he married into a Muslim family and converted from Buddhism.
He seemed happy with the move as he has lived here fr over 10 years.
My last post that I deleted was about the best meal we have had so far. Eating in railay beach to try to avoid "ton sai tummy" we ended up with railay tummy. Julia was sick all night and out of energy today while I'm with a bit of a tummy bug.
Here we wish that we had just had dinner back in ton sai. We stayed an extra dy here as we were told that there was no bus on Sunday to phang gna.
So here we are sick ad waiting at this waste of time bus tourism center this seemingly sweet guy at a tourist office on tonsai sold us.
Oh man, here I am, just trying to enjoy the journey.
As I reflect on these travels, i'm reminded of the same theme that I prefer bike travel and or travel in a place where I can communicate with the locals.
I think either that kind of "tourism" or a structured service or long term stay should be next if I continue to go places.
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