Comments on: We are in Thailand http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/ A ride from London to Sydney on bamboo bikes Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: katty and cleo http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-456 Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:52:48 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-456 hy girls … very happy to know that you are in a safer, warmer and more backacker friendly country !!

enjoy myanmar… i will read your post as i am dreaming about is country -also-since a while !!!

]]> By: Ngaire http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-455 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:04:55 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-455 Umporn means “the sky” in Thai! Obviously it is a boy’s (and methinks woman’s name as well?) xxx

]]> By: Jules http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-454 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:51:06 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-454 Thanks for the tips….knowing my lack of language skills it will take a while to say hello and thanks correctly but I will try. We think of you both especially passing many Umporn guest houses or restaurants!
We have sorted an Oz visa for Li and thus Sydney not so far away…..but yes….very tempting to ride on forever! Unfortunately money is slowly dwindling and fortunately, family beacons.

]]> By: Ngaire http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-453 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:24:41 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-453 Oh, you both feel so weirdly closer to good old Sydney. At this point are you tempted to peddle on forever? Think up some scheme to make money and live in tropical Asia? Umporn was born in Thailand, it’s a treat to go there with him, but everything takes AGES as they’ve seen gazillions of boring tourists like me b4 but a Thai speaking Asian guy….woo hoo! Natch we both find the sleaze so very sad. We were in Burma in November. Kiang Tong (also called Keng Tung as they do) was the highlight, near the Thai border. Loads of “trekking” to find women growing, weaving, dying with indigo (that denim blue colour), one of my special interests. You must have got a special permit for north, good going! We were terribly correct when we first got there, “Myanmar” plus our basic Burmese, but by the end we realized it’s a very fluid country in so many ways. Delightful. Gorgeous, hard working, hospitable people. Lovely culture, diverse and ancient. Anyhoo, onwards and upwards to you both (and up and down and up and down and along you go!). I hope you continue to enjoy your amazing adventure. All the best. Ngaire xxx PS. Here are the most useful word and phrase, I reckon, written as spoken for Myanmar. You may already know this. Thanks =”Jay-zu” think of jesus as the it is sometimes sung, as in “Jay-zu King of lalalala”. It’s somewhere between Jay-zu and Yay-zu . hello = “Mingle la bar” think mingle( in) la bar.

]]> By: Jules http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-452 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:44:52 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-452 Hi Buggi….fancy us being so close in what is proving a small world. Let us know how cycling in Burma goes, maybe we will meet on the road?

]]> By: buggi http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-451 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:53:02 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-451 Welcome to SüdestAsia :-)
I am today in Yangon / Myanmar …. and i look al the Time your and Jills Blog :-)

Have a nice Time
Buggi(from Germany we see us in Batumi )

]]> By: frugally challenged http://bambooodyssey.com/turkey/we-are-in-thailand/#comment-450 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:33:28 +0000 http://bambooodyssey.com/?p=3661#comment-450 Thoroughly enjoying your blog. nd your “rules” – or not!

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