Thailand Makes You Wet! (And Why You'll Love Every Minute!) [Season 1, Episode 26] - a podcast by Sheila Dee & Evo Terra - Third World Survivors
from 2015-07-07T18:00
Full Show Script
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EVO: If you missed our last couple shows, opportunity has brought us to Thailand, a country we didn't know all that much about. Hard pressed to identify it on a map, we'd have found the general area, but probably confused it with Myanmar or Cambodia. That's not a fact that makes us proud, and we're working on correcting it.
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SHE: We had a lot of misconceptions about Thailand. Some of those misconceptions were rectified the moment we looked it up on a map. Like the size of the country, for instance. If you're thinking Thailand is a small country, you're wrong:
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SHE: We never did write the blog post, but we did the research.
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EVO: And it's a good thing I didn't bet myself, because "that big lamb chop looking weird thing" that makes up the bulk of Thailand's area *is* Nevada sized... and then some. Overlaid on a map, it pretty much covers Nevada, bulges into Utah, and gets into California and Arizona. And that's not even counting the long, thin strip of land where we're staying. Thailand is BIG.
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SHE: And it's beautiful. It's greenery on scale we've never experienced. Clouds, mountains, islands, seas... At the risk of quoting Sting lyrics, every step we take leads to more stunning vistas.
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EVO: Now listen: it's hard to convey the beauty of this place in audio form. We're surrounded by it the moment we leave town. It's more than a little overwhelming and hard to describe with words.
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SHE: I'm taking tons of photos, but like the Grand Canyon, photos of the beautiful rainforest just don't to it justice.
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EVO: But there's one ubiquitous geological feature that does photograph well. And they're more common than monkeys in Thailand.
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SHE: Waterfalls.
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SHE: Where we're from, waterfalls aren't all that common. To see one of any appreciable size, you need to drive a few hours. And when you get there, you're at THE waterfall, likely the only one around for hundreds of miles.
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EVO: Here, you'll find a waterfall about every 10-15 kilometers. Not kidding. Some, like Punyaban and Ngao, are visible from the main highway, easily accessible to locals and tourists alike.
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SHE: Some are less accessible, only visible by an occasional glimpse on rough jungle trails. And some...
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