The two countries of Thailand are North and South. Part 8
Part 8. In which I mock my husband, no matter what, Sabai and Sanuk catch up with me.
That's it November 25, Sunday.
Vocabulary:
Sabai - coziness, lightness or physical comfort.
Sanuk - joy, peace of mind, pleasure.
We're going for a very long time. We sleep a little. We eat a little. No, we eat a lot. What else to do? )
We pass through the city of Phang and enter Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park. Cost 300 baht. Payment immediately at the entrance to the park. And the sources are quite far from this entrance. This is so, note)
At the entrance to any park, if we entered by car, then tickets were taken through the driver. The ticket attendants themselves approached the driver, took money, issued tickets, the driver handed them to me. And then they took the money and we went. My husband asks me:
Did they give you tickets?
- They didn't, probably they are not needed here.
The husband shrugged. Neither I nor he wanted to find out something from the driver, it is not so easy to communicate with him. So doubt was driven away like an annoying fly.
Fang Hot Spring sources.
The springs are hot. It's really hot, and I'm in tights, trousers, sneakers. Therefore, the first thing we are looking for here is a toilet so that I can change my clothes in peace. This takes quite a long time. My husband was already going to look for me)
Then we go to the administrative building to find out about the lodging for the night. The reception has photos of the room, but I want to see it live. The girls at first cannot decide which of them will go to show, then they lead us in some big circle so that we can admire the territory. We pass through a beautiful, green meadow, cross the bridge, climb the stairs, go through the cafe, up the stairs again and go out onto a wide road, along which three days in the field, two days in the forest for another half a kilometer. When we come to the hut, my husband is already darker than clouds.
- How are we going to drag the suitcases here? he asks me.
- You can drive up here - I guess.
He asks the girl again, she confirms that our car can drive here.
Husband doesn't like the house. And in my opinion, a good house.
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There is little light in it and it does not look very chic, but NATURE! And not horror-horror, quite well, no cracks, clean. Two beds, clothes dryer, TV, kettle, crockery. The bathroom has a toilet and shower. The water is hot but there is no sink. Outdoor table and chairs. All the fun costs 800 baht.
In general, you can live. I still remember the house on the rice terraces. I want to save money. And I don’t want to look for housing in Fang in the dark. The husband twists his nose a little, but agrees that the option is not bad. Let's go get set up.
The road to the reception takes five times less time than the road from the reception. We just passed through the valley of geysers, it took us about three minutes. Why we were led to the house around, I did not understand.
I ask what time everything closes.
- At 17:30.
Oops. We left the tea terraces at one o'clock in the afternoon, now it's half past four, I have nothing left for massages and baths, but I still need to arrange. I'm starting to get nervous.
Please send me to take a steam bath, and leave my husband as a hostagefor decorating the room.
And here it begins.
- Give me your tickets.
Lord, of course, nowhere, not once, have we been asked for tickets when they were. And now, when they are gone, this should have happened.
I explain that we were not given them at the entrance.
- But you paid?
- Certainly.
- And where are your tickets?
- Maybe the driver - I make an assumption.
The husband runs to the parking lot. Returned without tickets. The driver doesn't either.
I tap nervously with my fingers on the counter. The clock is ticking.
I'll tell you a secret that in my original plans this day was supposed to be more eventful. After the hotspring, it was planned to move to Mae Salong, which is another two hours of travel. But when I found out that the Loy Krathong holiday would end a day earlier than I thought, I split this day into two, with the hope of spending more time in the hot baths. Besides, otherwise, we would have to pass the most beautiful section of the road in the dark.
The girl at the reception sees my condition and tries to settle everything, she calls the checkpoint, then runs to the driver herself and sends him for tickets.
And we remember that the checkpoint is located quite far from the sources themselves, because this is the entrance to the national park, and it is huge.
The driver went, took the tickets and sits in the car. Waiting for us to come running to him. But we don’t know that he has returned, we shake our souls at the reception.
Then, when everything is behind me, I understand that everything is garbage, everyone is healthy and it was not worth it to be nervous. But at times like this, I can't think straight. I see the clock, I understand that it will soon get dark, everything will close and we will go to bed in our hut. And already paid 600 baht and we intend to pay another 800 for the night.
No, I don’t swear, it’s not anyone’s fault, but I hold back the negative with all my might. And, of course, there is tension.
Finally, the girl again runs to our driver, picks up the ill-fated tickets, arranges a house for us and a massage for me, and also explains where the outdoor baths are.
The driver takes us to the house, we unload our suitcases and let him go. Time 16:10. We've been in the hotspring area for over an hour now. And things are still there. According to the plan, we were supposed to arrive at two in the afternoon.
I believe that there were some serious mistakes in planning of mine here, so let's dwell on them in detail.
1. Road. The path along the northern road is three times shorter. I did not know which road the driver would take, but I included the shortest route into the calculations.
2. Long swing. I didn’t take into account at all that organizational moments could last for an hour.
3. Driver. It was incredibly difficult to communicate with him. Therefore, many questions stretched over time. I could not know this in advance, but, nevertheless, such a factor should be taken into account.
4. Settling, anywhere, never happens in one moment. When settling in is combined with something for which we have limited time, then the time becomes even more limited. We had to add an extra hour to check in.
5. Food. More on that later)
Meanwhile, the clock is 16:20.
I'm going very fast. Shower, swimsuit, towel… ran. The territory is large, I have to find everything, relax in the bath and have time for a massage at five in the evening. I'm taking my husband with me.
- Not. I'm not interested in all this. I'll go look for food.
- Then don't delay. If everything closes at half past five, then the cafes will close at five.
I have a map of the area. Rushing through the valley of geysers, past the lake where eggs are boiled,
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past a beautiful lake framed by lovely houses,
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and further, further, to where there are several blue open baths, fenced off from prying eyes by low walls.
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The boys are on the right, the girls are on the left.
At least that's how it's supposed to be. The girls have a solid wall and definitely no one is watching)
I go to the left, and there is a boy) Well, like a boy, maybe he is 40 years old. In Thailand, people look very young. Often in shops, hotels, cafes it seems that the staff is 12-13 years old. And then, it turns out that they are 25-30. Therefore, I generally stopped estimating their age)
But the boy immediately got out of the water and galloped off where he was supposed to. Or to the sauna. She's around too.
And I leave all my clothes on the side and plunge into the most comfortable environment for me - into hot water. The water, however, is not hot at all, but comfortably warm and very pleasant to the skin. As if minerals glide over your skin, making it smooth and silky. I call this effect "fatty")
This is where my body, agitated by haste, comes into balance and well-being. Sabay. How long have I been looking for you, my favorite hot spring! )
Some people looked at me, but, embarrassed, left. And I, all alone, in this warm, very, very comfortable water, was saturated with health, letting go of all thoughts and plunging into the most pleasant mood. I am very sorry that my husband did not feel this pleasure.
Closer to five o'clock, I began to look at my watch and already got out of "nirvana" a little, but, anyway, I was in no hurry to get out of the water.
Massage is done here, next to the baths, in a separate house.
At the reception, I ordered a massage with hot bags, but in fact I was given just a Thai massage. Somehow it doesn’t work out for me with bags) Several times, in different places, I tried to get such a massage, but I never succeeded.
They give me pajamas - a special suit for Thai massage. The masseuse is praying. It's impressive. I stop worrying. Like I'm under the protection of their God.
I'll tell you honestly - I'm afraid of Thai massage. When a person who knows your medical problems does and you can talk to him, then this is one thing, but like this, when communication is difficult, not knowing what kind of masseur, can he do it at all, somehow cautiously, because Thai massage this is a pretty serious effect on the body.
By the way, in Ukraine, the guy Vitaliy does Thai massage well - the masseur of the Reikartz-Karpaty hotel, if he still works there (otherwise I have been watching him in Thailand for a month, through Facebook, of course). I was very impressed with his massage.
Compared to Vitaly, here the woman did it very gently and lightly. Apparently, I was so tense that she was more afraid of me than I was of her) But the lightness, anyway, came. Why I love Thai massage. He removes ten kilograms from the spine. )
At six o'clock in the evening it was not yet dark, and greed again plunged into the bath. The water became cooler, there were more people in the baths and I no longer managed to be alone. I know that you can take a private bathroom in a house, but I once saw these houses in the photo. Inside, I mean) Mineral hot water gives rusty streaks, while Soviet tiles on the walls... I didn’t want such an entourage. And there was no time for me to solve this issue, even if I wanted to.
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I lie down until dusk, wrap myself in a towel, then in a pareo, it gets noticeably colder outside. I leave the bathing area and only then it dawns on me that the shoes should have been left at the entrance. What a horror, I trampled shod where everyone went barefoot. And no one even hinted. They are cute though)
And no need to undress on the side of the bath! There is a special dressing room. If you don't have a swimsuit, you can rent a sundress here. If I had known, I would not have spoiled my bathing suit in mineral water. There are shorts for men. And for all towels. Here I am a bastard.
I really liked the hot springs of Fang!
I run quickly to the room. The park is wonderful! I'm happy! Sanuk.
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It gets dark in Thailand, as in all of Asia, very quickly, I run to our house already in the dark. My husband is a little worried. And he's hungry. That is, he did not have any Sabai-Sanuk in this park. Unfortunately.
When he went looking for food, there was nothing for sale. There were also boiled eggs, but he did not want to boil them, he cannot stand the smell of hydrogen sulfide. Bought a couple of homeless bags jars of instant noodles. Filled with boiling water. He treated me too) I came across "Tom Yum" noodles. Do you already understand? ) The noodles were terribly, TERRIBLY spicy. And some other crap happened to my mouth (I pierced my gum with a shrimp shell, back in Chiang Mai, and the wound did not heal, it swelled up and prevented me from living until we bought soda for rinsing).
I cried over the noodles and ate our last waffle. We didn’t have any supplies with us, for which I also reproach myself very much.
We bought fruits and sweet potatoes on the road. But the lunch was so poor that we did not notice how we ate everything in the car.
In general, I had a plan to buy a rice cooker and buy products in the markets in order to be able to cook something, in a quick, fresh way. A couple of months before the trip, my husband managed to get sick, and even have an operation. He was not allowed to eat anything spicy and he was also not allowed to lift heavy things. But he was so aggressive about buying a rice cooker that I couldn't do anything. But at least I could buy more waffles on the road. Thank God we both survived this trip.
Not too full, and my husband is also not very joyful, we went to bed very early. There was no TV. Internet too! )
The husband suspects that the bed is stale. I can neither confirm nor deny. Everything can be.
- This is Asia, baby. Do you remember, dear, how we went to the Great Island and slept in tracksuits and hoods? We remained alive and well) Sleep, my love. Tomorrow will be a new day!
The mosquitoes didn't bite. A gecko lived on the ceiling and ate all the mosquitoes)
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The day is over, but you still don't switch! )
