The formation of Thailand
occurred more than 700 years ago, even so the signals of civilization in the
region retraces the 5000 years. The Thailand constitutes only the
parents southeastern Asian that never was colonized by foreign powers, gives
the 
possibility to keep its cultural traces of
long date. Portugal was the
first country occidental person visiting Thailand, in 1511. The established
relations of cordialidade between the two paises had been evidenced tether donation of the King of
the Sião the Portugal of a land parcel in the edge of
the river Chaophraya, where it is installed today,
the Embassy of Portugal. Exactly reputed for its quality and diversity, the culinária art thai
is equally famous for the refinement of its presentation. A flower sculptured
in a carrot or onion, decorates plates frequently simplest, while that a great
supper of "real" kitchen in a luxury restaurant sumptuously folloies compositions of vegetables and cinereous fruits.
The rice is the base of the feeding, but a vast variety of meats, aromatical shellfishes and some products give innumerable
and subtle flavors to it. The tailandeses eat do not
matter where, without definitive hours and all the types of establishments
consider to all the moments simple and sophisticated meals. The gastronomia has great social importance, over all in
familiar or communitarian parties. As in all poises, it has regional
specialties. Of Chiang Mai, the "Khan Toke" or "formal supper of
the north consists of five plates served in elegant earthen bowls in a small
table leased with the guests seated in the soil. In Phuket
and Pattaya, the cool lobsters and crabs are the
plate of the day. The traditional 
dessert and normally
fruit, being its variety notable. The two main forms of before dramatical
tailandesa are the Khon and
the Lakhon. Represented since century XV ahead of the
real cut, the Khon tells episodes of the Ramakien (classic literature Indiana, Ramayana, that virtuous and loyal
king counts to the adventures of Rama). The Lakhon is reserved to the cut. It executes slow movements
of danca and estilizados, folloied for the music of a Piphat,
orchestra that can have 20 musicians more than. It is over all in the private
restaurants to the tourists, who the visitors have more chance to attend a
presentation of Khon in form of accessible mimic art
to the foreigners. The masks of the Khon are treated
as sacred objects endowed with being able supernatural. The demons the monkeys
use masks, the human beings and the deities, crowns.
ctly for they - and its husbands and brothers - the life is any thing,
less normal there. They are members of the Kayan
tribe of the Karenni minority and if they had taken
refuge of the ethnic conflicts and the persecution of the government in its
native land. The small artificial villages form the borders of its world. As
other refuagiados in Thailand, them they are not free to
leave the space the one who are confined, plantar its proper food or to look
normal jobs. About others 20 a thousand Karenni
refugee if they expremem in areas close to the
border, living in needy situation. The "woman-giraffe" is exceptions,
with more comfort in its straw huts, because, as tourist attractions, can gain
money of operators. Between the refugee, them they are
privileged, receiving a wage monthly, as well as the profits of card-postcards
and gadgets that vendem for the daily multitude of
tourist. Compared with the agrarian lives that had left, it is easy money: maquiagem, bands and tricks with the foreign vistantes. For an outsider, the women do not have
complaints. What it is in question is the dignity. For some people, the
villages
