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A journey through South-East
Asia
The little places
Chiang Mai, November 16
Pressing, squeezing, circling,
sliding, rolling, rotating, twisting, cracking, chopping,
stretching. That's what has been done to me the last days
and that's what I have been doing the last days, in a five
day massage course that went from leg massage to foot massage
to hand massage to back massage to face massage.
I already had the idea to
do such a course in mind when I came to Thailand, but wasn't
so sure if I should do it or not. But since I arrived in Bangkok,
I kept meeting people who were into massage or body work -
so I thought it was the thing for me to do. And it was wonderful.
The course wasn't a school
course, but a private course: just the teacher, me and another
pupil (all women), very intensive, but at the same time very
relaxing. And it's good, to stay in one place for a longer
time, and more live in that place, feel more like a pupil
for a week than like a traveller, not moving around too much,
staying in one quarter of the city and get to know this a
bit better every day, get to know the side streets, the restaurants
around the corners, the little places you don't find in the
travel guides.
But now the time to move on
has come
today I arranged the tickets for the bus that
will take me to the border of Laos tomorrow.
Part 3: Slow
days on slow boats
this
travelogue is part of the subside travelzine
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