RTW: Exchange in Chile

Cheap diet country

Then a bit about what has been going on here.. it has been two days since my arrival and already a lot has happened. After not sleeping for couple of days (not due to anxiety but due to work I had to finish in Finland and the excess of coffee consumption), the body warned me with a small fever, so the first day passed mainly resting. In the night we took off to a boat cruise and a tour of the main tourist street, Khao San.

For those of you that don't know it already, I'm staying with my girlfriend here as she has just started her exchange studies in Bangkok University. She has this unbelievable deal of an "apartment", she is living in an hotel, very cheap I might add, in the 20th floor (see pic in previous post) with ROOM SERVICE giving out a standard bacon and eggs for merely 1,2 euros, for example. I'm guessing my living in Chile can not beat that.

Then, on the second day we went to the Finnish embassy to vote and stayed in teh center to look at the sights and shops. The basic stuff (pants, shirts, shoes) have all a VERY low price range, thank God I'm on a backpack trip or I would have spent a lot here. For example, genuine Adidas Superstars for 25 euros. I have not checked out the Bic Mac index yet but there is still time and might actually go do that since so far the Thai food has been very.. surprising. Sometimes it is quite good and at other times tastes like shit. Mainly I already learned that meat is not to be ordered here, better stick with the birds despite the threats of fever you guys read in the news. Anyway, later on we headed out for the night market, which is quite big and also surprisingly was not a real bargain place like most of the similar areas here.

Coming up: a trip to Koh Chang island (as Johanna has monday and tuesday off from school we'll spend a long weekend there)...

posted by Kassu @ 7:51 PM