Je ze cas, da kej napisem.... It is time to write something after a long time....

Ze mesec je mimo, ko smo na Tajskem proslavljali novo leto 2551... Ni mi
jasno kje je ostalih 243 let? :D Praznovanje novega leta Tajci imenujejo Songkran festival oz. 'water war'. Za 4 dni se zaprejo vse trgovine, banke,.... kar pomeni, vsi na ulice in akcija.... oblivanje z vodo... mladi, stari, tujci & Tajci, vse kar miga in kar gre. Spodnji film vse pove (fotoaparat je ostal na varnem v sobi):
One month passed since we celebrated Thai New Year 2551... I do not get where is the rest of 243 years?!? :D Celebrating is called Songkran festival or 'water war'. All the shops, banks,... closes dawn for 4 days, which means... everybody on the streets and action.... throwing buckets of water all around... young, old, foreigns & Thai people. The movie below will explain everything (my camera was most of the time safely in the room):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdLRkK6-XIY&feature=related

Po nori tridnevni zabavi je sledil preborat... 10 dnevna meditacija v Budisticnem samostanu. Kaj to pomeni, 10 dni si samo ti in tvoja glava... Dobis napotke za meditacijo v sedecem in stojecem stanju. Posebna pravila: 10 dni brez mobitela in interneta, bele obleke, vstajanje ob 04.00 zjutraj, dva obroka dnevno, prvi ob 06.00, drugi in zadnji ob 10.30. Za tem samo mleko, sladoled ali jogurt. Se pocutis kot v neki sekti :)
Ker je tezko spremenit bioritem, sem po 4-ih dneh pricela vstajati ob 6-ih, da je meditacija bila bolj uspesna. Po desetih dneh so tvoje misli in tvoja glava prevetrena, kristalno jasne misli,...si kot prerojen. Ampak... nic skrbet... se vedno ostajam ista Twonka :)
After crazy 3 days long water party the change was coming.... 10 days of meditation in Monasteri. What that means, 10 days is only you and your head... You get instructions how to meditate in siting and walking position. Special rules: 10 days without mobile phone and internet, white clothes, gettig up at 4' clock in the morming, two meals a day, first at 6'o clock, second and the last at 10.30. After you are alowed to drink milk, eat ice-cream or yogurt. You feel like you joined sect. After 10 days your thoughts and head are clean... you are a new person. No worries... still the same as I was before.

V samostanu sem spoznala noro Irko... Ruth, Brazilca Lea in Angleza Mike. Meditacijo smo nadaljevali z motorji ;) ... odpravli smo se na slapove Nacionalnega parka Doi Inthanon in dosegli najvisji vrh Tajske (2500m). Brrrrr. Ni snega, je pa mraz.
In Monastery I met crazy girl form Ireland... Ruth, Brazilian guy Leo and Mike from England. After meditation we rented motorbikes (jupiii) and went to see waterfalls in National park Doi Inthanon and reached the highest peak in Thailand (2500m). Brrr. No snow, but was cold anyway.

Vas pisanih deznikov/Umbrella village

Z Jennifer (Avstralka) sva obiskali vasico deznikov in vroce izvire v okolici CM. Ker je to bilo dan pred pricetkom festivala sva vedeli, sva v roku 5-ih minut bili popolnoma mokri. Najprej sva obiskali tovarno papirja, ki je bolj zgledala farma, ki izdeluje papir iz lesa. Za tem sva obiskali prodajalno in center kjer deznike izdelujejo.
Me and Jennifer (girl from Australia) decided to visit Umbrella village and Hot Springs near CM. Although we knew that we will get totally wet on the way cos this was just 1 day before the Songkran festival. First we visited the paper factory which looked more like farm that produces paper from woods and after we visited the store and the center where they make umbrellas.















V Sankampaeng vrocih izvirih sva se okopali v vodi s 35 stopinjami in skuhali vecerjo - JAJCKA v bazenu s 105 stopinjami.
We were swiming in Sankampaeng hot springs (35 degrees) and cooked our dinner - EGGS in a pool with 105 degrees.

CHIANG MAI & PAI (INTO THE WILD)

Ponovno v drugem najvecjem mestu Tajske. Odlocila sem se, da tu ostanem dlje casa, ker je poceni, da se mal sestavim in obiscem zanimivosti v okolici CM. Seveda pa se v roku enega tedna pricne Songkran Festival in tajsko novo leto.... Festival (beri OBLIVANJE Z VODO) se odvija po celi Tajski, ampak pravijo, da ga je najbolse dozivet v CM - TO SE SPLACA POCAKAT!!! Ponovno sem se srecala z Maruso (slovenko, ki smo se srecale v Canchanaburi) in preziveli sva enkraten vikend, predvsem ob raziskovanju nocnega zivljenja. Ob vikendih je Nedeljski sejem, kjer lahko nabavis kar se zmislis. Istocasno se je odvijal Art in Kulturni festival, ki predstavlja glasbene skupine iz razlicnih sosednjih drzav Tajske.
Again in the second biggest city in Thailand. I decided to stay a bit longer in CM, to rest a bit and visit sights around it. And of course after one week there is a Thai New Year and Songkran Festival starting (means throwing water on other people) ... and I was told that the best place to spend is in CM. I found out that Marusa (the Slovenian girl that I met in Canchanaburi) is also in CM so we spent great weekend together.... There is Sunday market on weekends where you can buy everything there. And there was also the Art & Cultural festival.... presenting music groups from different countries around Thailand.

Najela sem motor za en teden in prvi izlet je bil v mestece Pai - 'V divjino' (130 km iz CM) skupaj z Kolowom iz Bolgarije in Lousem iz Anglije. Izlet z motorji cez hribe, skozi pisano naravo, rizeva polja... me je ponovno navdusil nad motorjem in nad nadrealisticno idejo, da si enega nabavim za potovanje po Aziji. Na poti v Pai so se nekateri otroci ze segrevali za festival, tko da je potovanje bilo pra
I rented a motorbike for a week to visit all the Sights of CM and cities around and first trip was trip to Pai - Into The Wild (130 km from CM). I went there with Kolow from Bolgaria and Louis from England. The trip over the hills in a colourful countryside got me crazy again over motorbikes... again I was unrealistic - thinking to buy one.

Pai je zanimiva, mirna vasica obkrozena z naravnimi lepotami (kanjon, slapovi, vroci izviri, slonje farme...) in hribskimi vasicami z avtohtonimi prebivalci... Tudi nase bivanje je bilo kot v divjini. Spodaj je nekaj fotkic nasega bungalov letovisca, do katerega si lahko prispel preko mosta narejenega iz bambusa.
Pai is interesting peaceful village with beautiful countryside (canyon, waterfalls, hotsprings, elephant camps) and many hill tribe villages ... Also our stay was like in the wild. You can see our bungalow resort... you needed to cros the bamboo bridge to get to the bungalow resort.

Veliki kanjon z razgledom, seveda smo naslednji dan ob 5-ih zjutraj (po treh urah spanja) leteli na ogled soncnega vzhoda.

Grand canyon with a great view, of course we couldn't miss the sunrise.

Night life in Pai offers a lots of different bars with live western music... but we jumped into a Thai bar with karaoke again...

Na poti nazaj v CM smo bili sele mokri (otroci stojijo ob cesti in z vedri vode oblivajo mimoidoce, se najraje turiste - oni recejo 'Falang')!!! Ampak nic zato, temperature so bile med 35 in 40 stopinj, osvezujoce.

On the way back to CM we got soaked up to the skin (childrens are standing beside the street and throwing buckets of water into people, especialy turists - they say 'Falang'). But nevermind, the temperature was between 35 and 40 degrees, so it was more or less refreshing.

Sukhotai

Ponovno je nekaj narobe z mojo XD kartico fotoaparata, tako da ste prikrajsani vseh lepot Ayutthaye in Lopburija. Mesti sta dokaj podobni mestu Sukhotai, ki je bilo prvo glavno mesto Siama. Polno starih templjev z skulpturami Budhe.
Again something is wrong with my XD card of camera so I do not have photos of Ayutthaya and Lopburi. But I hope to get some soon. Anyway both cities are similar to Sukhotai which was the first capital city of Siam. Ful of old Tempels with images of Budha ....

V Sukhotai-u sem 'slucajno' spoznala Jennifer iz Avstralije... predlagala sem ji da si deliva sobo. Naslednji dam smo si skupaj z dvema Korejcema ogledali staro mesto Sukhotai.... tokrat s kolesi.
In Sukhotai I meet Jennifer by eccident from Australia... I invited her to share the room. Next day we went to see the old part of city Sukhotai with two Corean guys... this time we rented bicycles.


























Pot smo se isti dan nadaljevali z nocnim busom v Chiang Mai.
We all together continued the road to Chiang Mai with 'night bus'.

Kanchanaburi - zadnji dan

V Kanchanaburiju smo se 3 Slovenke razsle... Dunja je sla na jug, Marusa na sever, jaz pa ostjam v K., ker si moram vsaj se Erawan slapove pogledat, pa most na reki Kwai.....

Kanchanaburi 3 sloveninan girls needed to say goodbye, one has gone on the South, the other one on the North and I stayed in Kanchanaburi. At least I need to see Erawan waterfalls and bridge over river Kwai....

Na vrtu hostla Jolly Frog so imeli enkraten vrt, kjer si lahko spoznal ogromno popotnikov... ucili so me ognjenega showa s tenis zogicami.... mi kar uspeva tko da, ko pridem domov... pripravite se na ognjeni show. Zvecer smo se odpravili na vecerjo in KARAOKE..... Tajci so nori na karaoke, na vsakem vogalu pojejo :D

On the beautful garden of hostel Jolly Frog you could meet a lot of trevelers... some of them were teaching me how to make fire show (with tenis balls on the wire).... I was quiet good for the first time so when I get home, be redy for fire show ;) In the evening we went to have some dinner and of course on the KARAOKE..... Thai peple are crazy after karaoke.

Naslednji dan je sesterica odsla na ogled slapov .... bi rekla da najlepsi plac, kar sem jih videla do sedaj. Na vrhu smo lahko tudi plavali pod slapovi v sinje modri vodi.
Next day six of us went to se the Erawan waterfalls.... the most beautiful place that I have seen until now. At the top we could also swim under waterfalls in blue natural water.

Zvecer nam je Robin priredil mini ognjeni show s palicami.
In the evening Robin made a little fire show with sticks.

Pot se je nadaljevala v Ayutthayo - nekoc glavno mesto Siam-a (danasnje Tajske).... I went to Ayutthaya next - one of the capital cities of ex Siam....