Khon Theatre

One of the most amazing things that I meet during my travel to Asia was Khon theater
Khon theater is a traditional form of drama in Thailand  based on epic story Ramakien.  
The performance is made only by male actors dressed in very colourfull costumes

If you are looking for something interesting in Thailand Khon theater is the thing that you should see. There are many free performances in Bangkok, but the hardest thing is to find one for free. I am lucker, because I seen two performances and on one of them I was able to go backstage.

If you want to find more information about KHON  you can visit:
http://www.salachalermkrung.com/event.php

Public transport in Poland

Travelling around Poland.

Karkonosze mountains in Poland

Traveling around Poland is easy, the only problem is that not everyone speak English. Mostly older people don’t know English. It results from that before 1990  Poland was under Soviet autonomy and only a few people had chance to see Western Europe. So no one was learning English. It has changed in the 90’s but older cashers on railway stations don’t speak English at all. So always try to find young cashers.

Around Poland you can travel by plane, railway, bus, blabla car, and you can hitchhike.



1.       Travelling by plane. The cheapest option is to choose Ryanair http://www.ryanair.com/ But this carrier doesn’t fly from all Polish airports. So you can choose Polish Airlines Lot http://www.lot.com/pl/pl/ This carrier sells tickets from 60 PLN (14EUR) so it is also very good option.


2.       Travelling by train

Railway infrastructure is  widespread in Poland, so if you want to go to some small town this is probably the best idea. You may feel confused on railway station but if you try it once you will have no problems next time. In Poland there are many railway companies (PKP Przewozy Regionalne, PKP Intercity, Koleje Dolnośląskie, Koleje Mazowieckie itp.). But you can buy ticket for every train AT the box office. But if you plan your travel in advance the best idea is to buy your ticket in the internet (http://rozklad-pkp.pl/). There are some discounts for those, who buy tickets few weeks before departure.  On the same page you can check train schedule.
The cheapest carrier is PKP Przewozy Regionalne. The trains are sometimes not very confortable, and dirty.


3.       Travelling by bus.

Buses are very popular in Poland, but there are many small carriers and most of them don’t sell tickets online. Tickets for most muses you can buy from the driver except PolskiBus, sindbad and simpleexpress where you have to buy tickets online.

Before you start your travel you  may check schedules on:

http://www.albatrosbus.pl/ - cheap carrier, which I recommend . Tickets from 1 PLN  cheap carrier, which I recommend. Tickets from 1 PLN in South-East Poland.

 http://www.e-podroznik.pl/ - time schedule for most carriers in Poland, and tickets online. But not all carriers sell tickets in the internet. If there is no possibility to buy tickets in yhe internet you can buy ticket from driver.

http://www.simpleexpress.eu/pl# - cheap carrier

http://www.polskibus.com/ - cheap carrier


4.       Blablacar and hitchhike

Hitchhiking is not very popular in Poland, but you shouldn’t have any problems to catch a car.

Blablacar is very popular way of travelling if you want to find transport use this website http://www.blablacar.pl/,

Boryspil airport - Kiev

Boryspil International Airport is the main airport for international flights in Kiev.

I decided to write about that particular airport because it is uniqe. Unique because there are many people who are not passengers, and they will try to “help you”. Just after leaving arrivals zone at the airport you will be attacked by taxi drivers, who will propose you a taxi service, or currency exchange. They will ensure you that they can offer you best price. But it is not true. They only want your money and they will do everything to get it. Because of them sleeping in terminal is not safe. They may  steal your baggage or cheat you on currency. So remember to use only official taxi, busses and change money in official currency exchange. Some of taxi drivers will tell you that bus is broken or it is going very late etc. This is not true.

 "Taxi mafia" is waiting for travellers

Only in the eastern Europe are such exciting parties

At every airport there are special smoking rooms, but only in Kiev the doors from that rooms are wide open, and whole terminal can smell the smoke.

Below you can see a timetable of a bus. The bus stop is on the right side of the departure terminal.

Boryspil International Airport - Kharkivska metro station - Railway station "Pivdenny"

Departure time from Boryspil International Airport:

0:30
1:15
2:05	2:55
4:25
5:00	5:30	5:50
6:10	6:30	6:45
7:05	7:20	7:35	7:50
8:05	8:20	8:35	8:50
9:05	9:20	9:35	9:55
10:10	10:30	10:50
11:10	11:30	11:50
12:10	12:25	12:40	12:55
13:10	13:30	13:50
14:05	14:20	14:35	14:50
15:05	15:20	15:35	15:50
16:05	16:20	16:35	16:50
17:05	17:20	17:40
18:00	18:20	18:40
19:00	19:20	19:50
20:25
21:00	21:40
22:20
23:00	23:45

Railway station "Pivdenny"- Kharkivska metro station - Boryspil International Airport

Departure time from Railway station "Pivdenny":

0:30
1:10	1:50
2:35
3:25
4:05	4:50
5:40
6:00	6:20	6:35	6:55
7:10	7:25	7:40	7:55
8:10	8:25	8:40	8:55
9:10	9:25	9:40	9:55
10:10	10:25	10:40	10:55
11:15	11:30	11:50
12:10	12:30	12:50
13:10	13:30	13:45
14:00	14:15	14:30	14:50
15:10	15:25	15:40	15:55
16:10	16:25	16:40	16:55
17:15	17:40	17:55
18:10	18:25	18:50
19:20	19:40
20:20	20:40
21:10	21:40
22:20
23:00	23:40