kandalgirl

Thai mechanics sound as uselss as cambodian mechanics.

I was a partner in a garage in phnom penh for a while.

My mate the alleged mechanic recruited the staff who were mostly lazy and stupid.

Best mechanics here are vietnamese.

Cambodian mechanics specialise in walking round and round the vehicle and then four or five of them watch while one works.

Museums in saigon are great,war remnants and the other more older viet resistance history.

They even have the car that was in the picture with the monk who burned himself.

Presidential place is a lovely building and illustrates the delusions that The US were under propping up their stooges.

Day trips to vung tau by hydrofoil,short taxi ride away is the old australian and NZ base and memorial.

Cu chi tunnels and cao dai temple tour is good but a long day,the temple is near the cambodian border.

Trips down to the delta would be good.

Going north mui ne has nice beaches,nga trang is a beach town with lovely cham temples.

Hoi an is as beautiful as they say,a real tourist trap but lovely old,old timber buildings untouched by the war.

Hue is a lovely,historic town with the perfume river and the citadel and the university where ho and other luminaries attended.

I did the day trip to khe sanh and four ks across the DMZ to the fishing village with much better tunnels than cu chi.

Looking across the hilltops to laos is an unforgettable experience to me,we fought so long for those peaks.

Hotels-Ive only stayed in pham noo lou,central and fine.

Oh I did stay a few nights in an incredible colonial hotel on the riverside,so expensive and not worth it.

Four dollars to get a t shirt washed!

Cambodians are remarkably well organised,if only the rest of the country was so.

Thais would do well to capitulate.

Media in thailand does not help by rumour mongering.

I was in bangkok during the falklands war and the thai papers would print outrageous lies about the war from day to day,helps sell papers of course.

Crikey.

Judging by the replies to this thread there must be a lot of very strange barangs in thailand.

In australia people still acknowledge strangers in the street with a gday mate or a nod of the head.

In cambodia we,barangs and khmers often say sua sdey just as we would in australia.

In thailand people whether they be thai or barang often say sawatdee.

Its called common courtesy,isnt it?

Cambodian TV reports that four thai troops captured and two thai tanks damaged,confirmed by thais.

Thais were building a road in disputed territory and were asked to stop.

Khmers opened up-bewdy.

PAD wants a war and we will give it to them.

Khmers very well equipped and thai troops good at killing civilians and thats all.

They hate it when people shoot back.

Hun sen has everything to gain,chinese and viets would love to give the cheeky thais a bloody nose.

Bring it on.