Sat- Nakhon Si Thammarat
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Friendly people : Met Mel at his traditional medicine shop : like museum, walked around met a teacher.
Mel the Shopkeeper
Big file
| Sun - in Nakhon Si Thammarat
TAT, saw golden pillar, upto Thalad Park all free: new city Museum, internet room, zoo, gibbon island (aren't they small), birdpark
| Sun - Khao Luang National Park
Went out to checkout nearby mountains : Rajabat archaelogy museum closed under construction.
onto Prom Khiri village & hitched to the waterfalls Namtok Phrom Lok passed the ticket gate ridiculous foreigner price 300B (my hotel is 140B) lots of workers gathering mangosteen from the "orchards integrated into the rainforest"
Here is a video of the phrom kiri falls
rain - out past ecotourism homestay office maybe V expensive.
back into town, concert on field, but trashy music,
Lemang - me eating rice in coconut milk cooked in bamboo
city walls, City techno center/library Thailand is becoming like Japan. Night Market.
| Mon - Day off
Cos I keep doing things there's no time for planning/writeup 03/09/07
| Tue - another day off |
Tues still not done much so had another day off from Travelling. Museum ..was closed of course met the Tarot card woman. Of course my cards were super lucky.. But I still don't believe, internet, pizza with no cheese, bloated had to rest, run
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NASA admits US temperature records are wrong|
(update : when you look into the details you see that it's not such a big deal as the error was quite tiny, but it was enough to flip 1998 and 1934 around. So the sceptics can't scream so loud, but neither should the believers have been screaming "See it's getting hotter, when actually,before the correction 1998 was so minutely hotter. Still one side is able to say "the warmest 5 years ever were in the 1990's", whilst the others can say the warmest 10 years ever were in the 1930's)
From ..ABC's counterpoint programme
article
So climate models are wrong. A scientist noticed that the last years temperature records were lower than last years uniformly across the US when he questioned what was happening they admitted there has been an ongoing error with the way average temperatures have been calculated. Incredibly they didn't announce this. So 1934 is now the warmest year on record not 1998. The commentator said that he thought global climate models were wrong, as they fail to factor in the cooling effect of increased cloud an reinterated they are not predictions at all just "well it could be as bad as this" models as they are never able to say next years temperature will be X.
strong report on GW
| Wed - bus to Thla Sala
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- walk around guy gave me Khamon the drug leaf. Went to check out new university, woman was very kind, but archaeological site was dead boring
Met Japanese students show Thau/Jap cooperation is big.
| Bus to Sichon
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- besieged by Motorcycle taxi guys - walked around yo check out if there was a nice place to stay at the beach. Mistake I should have dropped the bag at the hotel in town as I ended up walking so far. It was 3 Km to the harbour I paid a boatman to cross to the north beach. OK, but no atmosphere 300B to stay, walked 2Km to go north to get to Khanom, got a ride, but the road doesn't go thro, but ends in a closed resort. Got a ride back to town southern beaches, but there places were expensive. The thing is a beach isn't magic to me, I'm not interested to pay double. So ended up back in town anyway after walking at least 10Km with my bag.
At market met Eh whose family have a shop. He is a history teacher.
Thu met Eh again at the market which began at 3am ! But nothing special.
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