Krabi:- The first Chinese tourist was fined Saturday for breaking the rule against washing feet and sandals in wash basins at the Hat Noppharat Thara - Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park in Krabi.

Chaiyatat Boonphuphantanti, the park chief, said the unidentified tourist broke the rule less than an hour after park officials put warning signs in front of the toilet room near the park office and on the mirror above the basins.

Chaiyathat said the park announced the rules after Facebook users cried foul that Chinese tourists washed their feet and sandals in the basins where Thai tourists normally washed their face. For Thais, doing so is seen as a taboo and very impolite action.

The signs use photo of Chinese tourist that have been widely shared over Faceook and Twitter networks, showing Chinese tourists washing their feet and sandals. The”no sign” was printed over the pictures.

However, the hastily made prohibition signs were apparently spelled incorrectly as it reads: “Break rule with 1,000 Bath penalty”.

Chaiyathat said a Chinese tourist came to use the basin and raised her feet to wash without paying attention to the warning sign. So an official took her photos and informed the group’s tour guide.

The guide was shown the photos and she agreed to pay the fine on behalf of the tourist. She was given a receipt for charging her client.

Chaiyathat said the park would have sign translated into Chinese as well.

A Chinese guide complained that the warning signs were too small. She said the signs should be enlarged and park officials should also wear uniforms when manning the toilet facility.

"Chaiyathat said the park would have sign translated into Chinese as well."

That would seem to be a pretty good idea.

Now we just need people to stop drying their pubes with the hairdryers in the gym...

It sends a shiver down my spine when warm pube air washes over me as I pass.

There are some pix of a Chinese woman washing her feet in one of the basins on Phuketgazette:
http://phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Tourist-fined-washing-feet-public-sink/52557

This is how to print the sign properly in Chinese: http://toilet-guru.com/guangzhou-sign.php

...........Chaiyathat said the park would have sign translated into Chinese as well.........

No sh1t, Sherlock!!

Very simple solution:

Place a wash basin on ground level outside the restrooms so our Chinese friends (and the rest of us) can wash their feet without insulting anyone!!

What about the Thai males.....honk blowing there noses in the sink and getting snot all over everywhere?????? I have seen this dozens of times all over the place......water, snot everywhere.

Another way to get more money out of tourists

I lived and worked in China for six years. They spit on the floor in nice restaurants, push their food scraps onto the floor after they eat. <snip>

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Have I missed something, my feet get washed with the rest of me at shower time. I might wash my face in the wash room from time to time when it's hot or when get a bit dusty riding the motorbike.

Any way educate this lot on the planes or through the tour companies.

"do not destroy facilities"

good to set ground rules i guess eh

If Thailand had to put signs for all the misdeeds the Chinese Tourists performed while in Thailand, it would be impossible to move around freely, signs everywhere.

http://www.likazing.com/chinese-translation/chinese-translation-1/

What about the Thai males.....honk blowing there noses in the sink and getting snot all over everywhere?????? I have seen this dozens of times all over the place......water, snot everywhere.

Haven't seen this once in the 13 years I've lived/vacationed here...

1,000 'Bath' penalty sure sounds like a lot of wasted water. But I guess those darned offenders are dirty people too.

Don't wash your feet in the sink, but don't mind if we spit in the same sink and piss on the wall in front of your kids.

Don't spit on the floor, but don't mind if we do it.

Don't litter, but don't mind if we litter as if we're all going to die tomorrow.

Don't poop in the moat in Chiang Mai, but... oh never mind, that was one of us. But we're gonna keep saying it was you anyway.

Don't drive your bikes and scooters like idiots, but we'll keep on renting them to you even if you don't know how to drive.

Don't kick our sacred bells at the temple, but don't mind our jet setting monks who smoke yaabaa and hire hookers on temple grounds.

Don't do yoga at our temples, but don't mind us having huge Muay Thai boxing matches at them.

And while we're at it, don't complain when you're attacked by our taxi, tuk tuk and baht bus drivers. Just be thankful we allow you to visit here.

Oh... and you're going to get fined for doing stuff now. It will cost you more to wash your feet in our sink than it does when we murder a tourist. But we're not going to write the signs in Mandarin AND Cantonese right away, or maybe not at all, just to make sure we get ya one more time before you go home.

Enjoy your stay.

What about the Thai males.....honk blowing there noses in the sink and getting snot all over everywhere?????? I have seen this dozens of times all over the place......water, snot everywhere.

Haven't seen this once in the 13 years I've lived/vacationed here...

Open your eyes. I see it often in public restrooms.

Clearly,, the tourists wearing sandals need a place to wash their filthy feet.

If they wore shoes/@!$//and socks,

There would be no filthy feet to wash

It is baffling that people wear sandals all over Thailand as they walk in urine and feces and rotting trash on sidewalks no one bothers to hose off at night

I wore boots and just washed them home

What about the Thai males.....honk blowing there noses in the sink and getting snot all over everywhere?????? I have seen this dozens of times all over the place......water, snot everywhere.

Maybe this is an aspect of "THAINESS?" and thus, it is Not to be Sniffed at by we, mere Falang!

...........Chaiyathat said the park would have sign translated into Chinese as well.........

No sh1t, Sherlock!!

Very simple solution:

Place a wash basin on ground level outside the restrooms so our Chinese friends (and the rest of us) can wash their feet without insulting anyone!!

Try not to inject logic in this discussion.

If Chinese could behave like civilized people, there would be no need to complain.

Nobody with common sense washes their feet and footwear in wash basins, only them.

Another specialty from the cavemen.

"The only good thing I can say about it all is that thank goodness they can only have one child."

Ate the others at birth presumably.

Haven't seen the Chinese in action, except in Phuket being led around by a guide with a small flag, did not witness any bad behaviour.

"Enjoy your stay."

Thank you, I rather enjoy picking my nose in public...

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What about the Thai males.....honk blowing there noses in the sink and getting snot all over everywhere?????? I have seen this dozens of times all over the place......water, snot everywhere.

Haven't seen this once in the 13 years I've lived/vacationed here...

I have lived Thailand for 7 years, and I've seen this too much. Nearly every time I stop at a petrol station and use the bathroom, there is some guy leaning over the sink blowing his nose. I've seen it in bathrooms in shopping malls, restaurants, etc. It is very disgusting, and they don't bother to clean or at least wipe the sink afterwards.

Sounds like the cockroaches are complaining about the flies.

"Chaiyathat said the park would have sign translated into Chinese as well."

That would seem to be a pretty good idea.

I don't speak Chinese but I hope their translated signs will be better than typical translated English.

I'm sure it'll read...

"It is on what the foot on the area of washing for upper part of human torso is area not considered on the area of lower torso for legs is impolite"

I am delighted every time I see Chinese misbehave in Thailand. Now the Thais realise that the falang from Western countries are not so bad after all.

Fine em all the way back to Peking.