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- Conversation in an Asian medicine store
- All over Asia, you will find market booths or stores filled with dried spices, dried animal parts, and flowers. These are used to create medicine and home remedies. At the beginning of this conversation, we are talking about a fish stomach. There are apparently...
- Format: audio
- Fare collector on bus in Thailand
- Unlike American buses, most buses in other parts of the world, especially those outside very large cities, (like Bangkok) have at least two employees. One employee drives the bus, the other takes the bus fare from the passengers. Sometimes the fare is the...
- Format: audio
- Thai rock band, Chiang Mai
- Though the music and the sound might make you think that you are in a club in the United States, this band was recorded in a club in Thailand. Western music (like rock, pop, and rap) is enjoyed all over the world. A traveler can hear it on the radio coming...
- Format: audio
- Muy Thai music excerpts
- Muy Thai is Thai kickboxing. In Chiang Mai, fellow travelers and I went to see a Muy Thai competition. It looks a lot like American boxing, where bare-chested fighters compete in a raised ring that is surrounded by elastic ropes. They fight in several rounds,...
- Format: audio
- Tuk-tuk audio, fast engine
- A tuk-tuk is a convenient way of getting around most towns and cities in Southeast Asia. It is a small three-wheeled motorized vehicle that is steered with handlebars versus a steering wheel. It is named after the sound that the two-stroke engine makes as...
- Format: audio
