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The Album of the Asian Pictures of Mamilu |
| I live in Thailand for
about 10 years, often with my family that does
not fail to come to visit us and stay with us in
Krabi.
In these pages I would describe groped my
Asia.
Give and share my impressions, pictures and
colors, tastes and smells of the East |
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In Krabi we arrived the
first time in 1985.
Viet Nam was that we wanted to see, this
mythical country of Apocalypse Now that ten
years after the end of the war against the U.S.
giant finally reopened the borders.
And so it was that we discovered the
sweetness of the Thai people and the magic of
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On that first trip through Thailand
from Chiang Mai to Phuket, via Bangkok, and
Pattaya, Surat Thani, Ko Samui and finally Pang
Nga and Krabi.
The beautiful and legendary charm of the Far
East enveloped us since the early days and to
return to Italy ended with the radically
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Chiang Mai fascinated us for its Night Bazaar, a huge
maze and antique wood consumed by time on three levels where
it was possible to visit a variety of colorful and exotic
stands and admire the thousands of fine handicrafts from
that corner of South-East Asia.
In the maze of staircases and ancient corridors was
easier to find tiny restaurants that cook outdoors, and
where he can enjoy the fragrance of the Siam of the past. |
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Bangkok struck us the majesty of Chao Praia and
smells of ancient markets in the area of the Temples.
The floating market is picturesque and pleasant, but is
now just a show for tourists.
Bangkok is not certainly a great place to visit
and from there you need to escape quickly.
Ayuttaya, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of
Siam, about 80 km north of Bangkok, still maintains the
charm of Thai and it is nice to visit the ruins of the
temples and the royal palace.
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In Pattaya
there is the famous American base from which for years have
taken off the air for the American daily missions bombing of
Viet Nam.
At night the marines goes off of everything and bought
all the different shops have learned to sell.
Now the U.S. and 'the most discreet and thousands of
marines have replaced thousands of tourists, who continue
undeterred in its mission to buy everything |
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Shurat Tani is already in the deep south of Thailand.
We arrived by train and were immediately fascinated and enraptured by the
beautiful tropical forest with its red earth and giant trees
a thousand years old.
The atmosphere was already Sandokan style and pirates of
Malaysia, in that forest still to live the tiger free! |
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Ko Samui was a wild and quiet islet with nice
bungalows from straw that is reached with an hour's ferry
from Surat Thani.
Few tourists and a few villages and a forest all around
fabulous.
Now only a vague remember. |
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Pang Nga is the area of mythical stacks that continue
into the sea from ones from forming clusters of beautiful
islands including the famous James Bond Island, just south
of the famous floating village of sea gypsies.
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These islands are among the finest in the world and it is in
the
Krabi and Ao
Nang and that it can visit the most fascinating.
Do not miss the strip of white sand and coral in Ko Tab
and then the incredible Ko Poda, Ko Hong and Paradise
Island.
In fact we were bewitched by the islands and the fragrant
tropical jungle and so that was one time we decided to
change our lives.
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Our first trip in Thailand ended in Phuket.
While in Phuket in 1985 was a very different from today,
it was already possible to see signs of a savage
urbanization as both chaotic and confusing, the island was
already paying a high price to tourism which has finally
shaken the original appearance.
In Krabi Mamilu was a
Dmoz Editor for Thailand and China.
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