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Thailand belongs to the few countries, that never became colonized. Thai meets foreign visitors respectfully and with relaxed self-confidence. 

Thailand is almost 50% bigger than Germany. Approximately 95% that of Thai are supporters of the Theravada-Buddhismus, that directly retraces his origin on the teaching of the Gautama Buddha from the 6. century before Christ. 

Thailand has 60 million inhabitants, Chinese are 11% of it. The share of the city-population amounts    to 20%.

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Currency is the Baht. 100 Bahts cost middle of 2001 2,40 USD approximately. The price level is favorable for us. 


Airport-Informations 02 535 1310. 

With illness, one can look for one of the state hospitals. The care is good and favorable. 

With taxi-drivers and in small stores, haggling is duty. One offer the half and agree on two third of the first-price. 

Many taxi-drivers cannot read well. As we gave a taxi-driver the calling card of the hotel in order to be driven there, the taxi-driver admittedly accelerated, but he did not know where to go in reality. As I talked to him, should look at the card however, he helt the card with top downwards. Only through many questions and enormous detours, we came to the hotel. Therefore is prerequisite, to fix the price previously. But is also important to find a taxi-driver, who can speak English. 

The rain-time is between May and Octobers. The monsoon brings irregular, heavy precipitations then. On Phuket and Ko Phi Phi it rains in may/june and in september/oktober, on Ko Samui in oktober/november, mainly. 

          The Phuket weather:             

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Thai like to celebrate parties. For tourists, such days can turn into climaxes of their vacation. 
January 1 New Year's day 
January/February transition. Chinese New year. Fireworks and dragon-dance. 
1. February-week. That flower-solidly in Chiang May. Moves, beauty-competitions. 
Full moon-night of the third moon-month. Candle-processions around all temples of the country. 
6. April. Chakri-Tag. Holiday in honor of from Rama I, the originator of the Chakri-Dynastie. 
13. - 15. April. Song-crane, the Thai New Year's day is most important party of the country. That of Thai come back into her/its/their home-provinces, Bangkok is almost empty. The means of transportation are overcrowded. That of Thai spray themselves with water, decorate itself with flowers and get dirty with whiting. In Chiang May, one celebrates so vehement that prevails with downright water-slaughters of a type state of emergency. 
May 1. Meet the work. 

May 5. Coronation-jubilee of the king. Lawful holiday. 
2. May week. Royal plow-rite. On the Sanam Luang in Bangkok, the king introduces the time of the rice-seed. 
Full moon-celebrations in July in all temples. 
On the day after Asanha Puja. Begin the Buddhist abstinence-period. For three months, the monks retreat into the temple-realms. 
September/Octobre. vegetarian-party on Phuket. 
Full moon-night in November. The Light festival is the most beautiful party of the country. Baby boats on banana-leaves, with Räucherstäbchen, a coin, flowers and burning candles is abandoned in the dark on rivers and seas. 
End of November: Elephants Round Up in Surin. The biggest Elephants show with over 100 elephants. 
November/Dezember. to the month-change becomes the River-Kwai-Week in Kanchnaburi with nightly Sond & Light show celebrated. 

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