[Immampdah]

Thanks for your recommendation, Zaidee, that sounds fun Hopefully, I can visit Australia one day but for now I'm still stuck in other side of the world

[Immampdah]

I rest my case.

yeah, I really have to admit that you are actually spot on

Oh, and other thing, they (Thai people who visit Australia, I mean) always came back with (often, more than one of) the little Koala fluffy toy that has the paws that can clip on to things.

[trettegeani]

It's G'day mate, not Good Day.
Every major capital in Australia has a sites to see, in Melbourne it would be any sports event at the MCG or Telstra dome, a tram ride on a restauraunt around the city. great live shows every where.
Adelaide is churches and wine trips.
Perth is beaches, footbal or cricket at the WACA, and wine trips
Darwin is the pubs, and ourdoor movies house, and casino, heard they have a few bikies strip shows as well.
Brisbane is disneyland, and the gold coast
Sydney bridge and opera house, zoo is a bit of a let down, but the ferry trips are nice, and cricket or football at the SCG
Get out of any of these tows and the "bush" is majestic, and the pubs (what's left of them) out in the bush are really great meeting places.
Australians love outdoors, it can be as a spectator, or participant in sports, caamping, fishing, you name it they are out there.
Excpet the average Aussie, which is about 40% of the population who cannot afford to do anything but pay the rent and survive.
haveagoodweekendmate

[SOgLak]

Phar Lap was a New Zealand horse that the Aussies appropriated when he started winning races. They also stole our pavlovas, Crowded House, Fred Hollows, all our best league players and anything else of merit, claiming them as their own. (We were happy to give them Jo Bielke-Peterson, but in return they gave us bloody possums). So while your'e visiting Aussie, come over the ditch and see a little country that isn't all red, flat and dusty.

[Immampdah]

Probably it's just me who got confused. I thought the question we suppose to discuss was "What do Thai people expect when they visit Australia? and why do they come to Australia?"; not "What does Australia has to offer?" In my previous post, I did not list Australia's things-to-do-and-places-to-visit, I just explained what regular Thai tourists would do. All my friends and family members who have visited Australia have done what I have mentioned. Regular Thai tourists are definitely not go there to watch cricket or go camping.

[Vobomei]

Phar Lap was a New Zealand horse that the Aussies appropriated when he started winning races. They also stole our pavlovas, Crowded House, Fred Hollows, all our best league players and anything else of merit, claiming them as their own. (We were happy to give them Jo Bielke-Peterson, but in return they gave us bloody possums). So while your'e visiting Aussie, come over the ditch and see a little country that isn't all red, flat and dusty.

LOL! Excellent!!

[Immampdah]

Phar Lap was a New Zealand horse that the Aussies appropriated when he started winning races. They also stole our pavlovas, Crowded House, Fred Hollows, all our best league players and anything else of merit, claiming them as their own. (We were happy to give them Jo Bielke-Peterson, but in return they gave us bloody possums). So while your'e visiting Aussie, come over the ditch and see a little country that isn't all red, flat and dusty.

Actually, Thai people love to go to NZ, too. And lots of well-off Thais prefer to send their kids to study (high-school) over there (as oppose to USA, UK, or Australia) as it suppose to be safer than other countries, with fresher air, too And, umm, we do go there to take photo with sheep and, umm, ... possums

[Adamdjeffe]

Phar Lap was a New Zealand horse that the Aussies appropriated when he started winning races. They also stole our pavlovas, Crowded House, Fred Hollows, all our best league players and anything else of merit, claiming them as their own. (We were happy to give them Jo Bielke-Peterson, but in return they gave us bloody possums). So while your'e visiting Aussie, come over the ditch and see a little country that isn't all red, flat and dusty.

Gave you possums? You were lucky! They gave us ROLF HARRIS!

[IodinkBoilk]

Hey billk, can I ask? Are most houses in Thailand like it is decribed by gor?

"In my soi there are 20 houses. I know all of my neighbours. Everyone is very kind.

I live in a terraced house. It is medium sized and has 2 floors, 2 bedrooms and 2 toilets. We don't have a dining room, but we eat our meals in the living room. There are 4 people in my family , my mum, my dad, my brother and me. My house doesn't have a garden but we have some plants in pots. We also have some small fish. My mum like the plants very much, she usually water and looks after them when she's at home."

Also I was wander about a dress sense there? if you where in japan you would see a range of fashion on the streets, from traditional, casual to very different shall we say. Is it similar in Thailand?

Thai people in Bangkok are tremendously fashion conscious. They wear the latest fashions and are dressed immaculately. Women must have their shoulders covered and wear a dress or skirt to go into Buddhist temples. They are becoming more lenient with dress, as they used to expect the same attire on the street as in the temple. The teenagers wear a lot of shirts that have English words or sentences on them. Depending on where you go outside of Bangkok, the dress may be more traditional for the tribal people up north and more casual at the touristy beaches in the south.

Few people live in the luxury that Gor describes in his book. Most people in Bangkok live in a one room apartment with a balcony and a bathroom. The rooms are barely large enough for a double bed, a wardrobe, and a chest of drawers. The bathroom has a toilet, a very small sink, and a shower that has nothing but a drain in the bathroom floor, no enclosure. They have no kitchen for meal preparation. The apartment building has a kichen, sometimes on the roof where tenants can buy meals for about 15-30 baht a meal. Some of the tenants buy small refrigerators for about 7000 baht to put into their apartments. The apartments run about 4000 baht a month. And the average factory worker in Bangkok makes 160 baht a day. A school teacher with a college degree makes about 8000 baht a month.

Outside of Bangkok, some people find shelter where ever they can. I visited a family of rice farmers in Roi Et near the Laos border. There were 13 people that lived in a one room wooden structure about 13 feet by 13 feet that was raised up off of the ground on wooden posts. It was raised to keep out cobras during the night while they slept. Most of their time was spent in the rice fields during the day. Under the house on wooden posts, they had some large rocks in a circle that they used to cook in. They used an open flame for cooking. At that time, a 2 year old girl had severe burns to her right leg where she had tripped into the fire. Around the fire and under the house were 2 tables. There was no flooring under the house, just dirt.

I'm sure the situations I've described are not for individuals that would be traveling to Australia. I hope that helps.

I hope this helps you

[IodinkBoilk]

I've read his post 10 times over, and I have yet to find any thing wrong with the way he writes English, Maybe you should listen to the way the real world speaks English, and stop reading English from a text book. I see nothing wrong with his communications skills, as I understood every word he said. Maybe some academics should learn real world English instead of old world English that would have been understood 100 years ago by the average Joe. English has changed, I suggest you and all the other academics, with there English elitism get with the times, and start talking real world English so people like my self can actually understand you, as for the moment, when some of these academics start talking with a plum in there mouth, I can barely understand a word there saying.

when you poste you are an international expert on Thai women, I would venture to guess that Thai women are an expert on you.