这是我10多年前的老内容了。首发于百度空间，后来百度空间倒闭，再备份到网易lofter，最近发现网易也不靠谱，很多图片无法打开，反倒是百度空间的备份链接还在，于是拿来重发一下。多个备份多点希望，多次分享多些价值。


It is my first time to go aboard for vacation, I think write it down in English will have special meaning and I dont care if here have many mistakes.


This trip spent me almost 21 days, and over 20 thousand RMB, because it include learning diving and pay for a guide. I'd like talk about this trip by some main topics below:


Bangkok
As capital of Thailand, this city looks old and poor, except its big and modern international airport. On the way from airport to khaoshan road by bus, I saw many poor and dirty house, it is for Thai masses. There have a little few high and new buildings, but Thai temples looked everywhere.


Khao Shan Road
Khao Shan road is a very famous place, maybe it is cheap for foreign backpackers. Here has many kinds of stores and hostels, and most western foreigners. The average price of hostel is about 120 RMB per day, but all the room is small and not good decorated.


When night coming, the street boiled. Western foreigners are everywhere: bars, 7-11, stores, and booths, everyday these activities are continued to 2 PM. or later.


Living
Thailand is convenient for chinese. At first, many ATM support china union pay, it means that you can take Thai money directly by your chinese bank card, and the fee is only 10 RMB per time, so you dont need take some cash or US dollars then exchange them in Thailand. BTW, the currency between RMB and Baht(Thai money)is about 1:4.5, it means you can get 4.5 baht by 1 RMB.


'True Move' seems the biggest and best operator in Thailand, I used its mobile phone SIM card, it is more cheaper than China mobile. I can make a oversea call by their IP phone number '00600', it only cost 0.x RMB per minute, and Thai domestic call cheap more.


Many people wondering if Thai is cheaper than China, the answer is maybe. For example, Thai massage, fruits and room rent are cheaper than China, but some product like mobile phone, international brand clothes and some food are more expensive. And, western people will become little rich here, because the high exchange rate, but it is not same to chinese.


I had enjoyed very professional massage in Khaoshan road. Small store, very ordinary woman, but what is professional, it is! I cant describe what and how she done, but more comfortable proofed everything. And it is so cheap, only 30~40 RMB enough. I recommend Thai massage and foot massage, and notice that you should do it in Bangkok or Chiang Mai, maybe last one is the best.


Many fresh and cheap fruits is another reason for loving Thailand, it is too cheap, one piece 2 RMB, I tried pineapple and watermelon, the pineapple is very fresh and sweet, good taste without any acid, It is totally different from chinese.


Although 'tom yum Goong' soup taste good, you will sick if you eat it everyday. I think Thai food is just so so, most Thai food are same, they always mix pork, chicken, beef, shrimp and vegetables, add some sweet, spicy and acid sauce, the meal is odd and quick to tire. So lucky there also have pizza, Mcdonald's, Subway and etc.


Some taxi drivers may let you dissatisfied, in China they called 'black taxi driver'. Same as Thailand, they prefer to make a fixed price instead car's counter, no doubt it will let you pay more money. Fortunately these drivers only stay close to the center street, you can get rid of them by walking a little far and then call a normal taxi. A interesting thing is, almost every taxi drivers or store seller seemed very like to speak two Thai-English phrases: 'same same' , 'up to you'.


Sex
I visited three red-light districts in Thailand. Two of them in Bangkok and one is called 'patpong', it has 4 streets, for sex show, commercialized sex, gay and lesbian. I was not go into the bar because I was scared, really. When you see many many ladies dancing then wave to you and say welcome, you dont know what will be happened, especially you dont know who is she or he.


In the daytime, 'patong' street In Phuket island is a very normal street, only few people walking and some bars have no customer. But when dark coming, here have many many people and only about sex. Here also have sex show and 'go go bar'(some ladies in it and you can pick anyone away). The numbers of visitors, ladies, and that kind of atmosphere, all better than patpong.


Some people are interested in lady boy. In Thailand, lady boy is regard as third gender, they are equal with others. In my opinion, though I dont like them, but lady boy is really poor. I saw a lady boy show when I sat outside the bar, the lady boy fished its penis out when the music playing 'I'm not a girl', funny and sad. So, the work of most lady boy is sex show or other dancing show, and they aslo support sex service. They like say hello to asian, someone told me japanese is their customer, because japanese cant identify they are lady boys.


Diving
I learned diving in 'khao tao', a small island, it spent me 7 days and about 5000 RMB. Finally I got PADI open water and adventure open water certified, so in future I can dive 30 meters deep and do night diving and etc.


The course is very hard and painful to me, it need do many tasks and practices underwater, even in swiming pool I also felt nervous, maybe I had bad body condition those days. I suspended my AOW(adventure open water) course because my ear had some problem, they ached because I had not do good pressure balance underwater. Frank talk, I panicked at deep diving course, I thought I was dying when I went down 26 meters deep underwater, my coach swam so fast and I cant catch her, then I felt my heart beat violently and I was afraid I would shock, then I decide to quit this course and go up, and you know, so I can write this blog now.


I'd say diving is a most interesting thing, underwater you can see many kinds of fishes and coral, so close even you can touch them, weightlessness feeling and many other reasons let you like diving.


Thai boxing
Yes, I also tried Thai boxing. I bought 3 times for learning but I quit after second time.


First time, I flowed down the most sweat in my life, and second time, my sweat is 3 times more than first. How terrible it is! Even I cant do rope skipping for 5 minutes!


It's ok, I'll come back!


Bangkok, Khao Tao, Khao Samui, Phuket, Phang Nga
Above is my trip map, Phuket is the best of all, because Phuket almost has everything: beautiful beach, delicious food, comfortable and cheap hotel, many foreign girls, hot red-light district, and many entertainment places.


Khao Tao is only for divers;At Khao Samui you can have a rest, but it is all(I tried jet-ski there); Phang Nga is a tourist attractions, people can go there by ship; If have beach, more new buildings and a little cheap, maybe Bangkok is prefect.

Others
It seemed Japan and Thai have very good relationship, in Thai cities, 95 percent cars are made in Japan, Toyota is most, second is Honda. I remembered, Thai driver must seat down the right side, they drive along left side, it is more unaccustomed to chinese and other country people.

And, 7-11 is everywhere, I never see so many 7-11, 3~5 7-11 stores are in the same street, even though the street is short.


In a massage store I thumbed through the guestbook, about 80 percent guests come from Australia, maybe it same as entire tourists of Thailand. Asia tourists, what I had seen most is singaporean, and then are japanese, korean and chinese, absolutely this is related to chinese holiday.

Many foreigners stayed in Thailand for many years, working or living, So many Thai learn English for their business. You can see English menu, post, newspaper and everything everywhere. But many Thai speaking Thai-English and have Thai accent, it is hard to know what is it. I asked a England guy, could he identify Thai people say '3' ? He said no, because the Thai's pronunciation of '3' is similar like 'tree'.


Feeling
I was stimulated.
How many beautiful western girls in Thailand but nothing I can do?! Why? English!
If I know someday English is so important and useful to me, I must learn English harder than anyone from middle school.
So I write this blog in English, and make a decision: I MUST LEARN ENGLISH WELL!!!


那次旅行本来只有上面这坨菜瓜英语和少量几张照片做记录的，但既然要发，干脆再补点内容吧。


这是我第一次出国，给我的冲击和感触蛮多的。最大的感受是：人可以有很多活法。在泰国大部分人相比我们都没什么钱，但生活过的还都挺舒适，每个人的状态和心情也都很好，相比之下，我们为什么要给自己徒增那么多压力呢？


那时候并没有“躺平”这个词，但感受到的是在泰国比躺平更高更自然的生活状态。所以很多老外很喜欢去泰国，一部分是因为消费低，一部分是因为那种氛围，更贴近生活本身吧。


关于英语：

1、我高一就放弃英语了，大学？没上大学。

2、去了泰国受了刺激，要学英语，于是强行用英语写。

3、大量的使用了词典软件。

4、众所周知，经过我不懈的努力，最终我终于成功的放弃了学英语。

5、如果你还不到30，听我一句，好好学英语吧。就不必等我到了40后悔，再学习，最终还死活学不动，只能含泪放弃。


到泰国后，我朋友直接拉我去了龟岛学潜水，因为英语不灵，所以找了中文教练。


这个是PADI OW的认证要求。


学习如何倒腾潜水装备。



出海潜水回来的船。


我的学习记录。


我的潜水学习比我预期的费劲，因为耳朵不给力，平衡一直做不好，也生扛不住，耳膜虽然没破但是受伤了，中间请求休息几天，然后到了普吉岛来玩。


国内的摩托艇大都是有人带着玩，生怕你搞坏了还是怎样，而且费用不菲。相比之下，泰国的摩托艇便宜而且随你折腾，这样很爽。


说是拍007电影的景点，普吉岛攀牙湾。



那时候还有点头发。


学泰拳。没跟人打，自己先要累死。


泰国的足疗和按摩真的无敌，便宜又专业。


耳朵恢复一些后，回到龟岛继续课程，而且咬牙要学完OW再上一个级别的AOW证书。



学习水中摘穿面镜。


学习不用面镜潜水。


学习面镜排水。


下海实战。





只要耳朵平衡搞定，一切OK！


因为海里的水会把光做过滤，所以看上去东西都好像只有蓝绿色，其实如果在浅水区光照较好，或是用闪光灯的话，你会看到一切颜色斑斓。


海鳗，吓我一跳。



这是教练用的……妈蛋我都忘了名字了，就是充气把这个塑料棍戳到海面上，避免上面有船经过造成危险，然后再上浮上去。


继续海底练习摘穿面镜。


练习顶级中性浮力。这个我还是比较强的，有那种完全倒立并且保持在固定高度的，只可惜没拍照。


海里打手势可以用OK但不能翘大拇指，那是另一个手势指令。


龟岛下面可以看的东西不多，但对初次潜水的我来说，不错了。






练习人肉导航。


碰到了鱼群。没学鱼类辨识这门课，所以是啥鱼我不知道。


必须来一张。




如果无法用手势简单沟通，就在水下写字说明。



下水有两种主要姿势，一种是这种从甲板上大跨步下去，还有是坐在船上朝后翻过去。


这张照片用了闪光灯，是我在学习夜潜。顾名思义，就是晚上潜水，是我认为潜水里必须体验且非常好玩的选项。晚上下水后，因为四周都是黑的没有光，而且因为水里的失重状态，没有参考物可看，人无法分清楚自己实际的位置和姿势，不知道自己是不是直立、侧躺还是倒立的。而晚上来临时，海里的很多水生物才跑出来，可以看的东西更多……可惜，这一趟是练习，所以没有更多照片啦。



就这样，我出国了，我拿证了。



在后面几年我去了其他一些地方继续潜水，累计超过百潜。但是因为耳朵平衡不好，以及接触上了滑雪的原因，就很少再潜水了。不过，潜水的体验真的很棒，一定要试试，并且记得，一定要去好的潜点潜水，那样才能给你真正的享受！