Saturday, February 18, 2006


I'm back in Germany! Yeah! Bankok was just ace. I stay in Banglamphu in the New Siam II hotel. They had even a pool ;)! The first night I booked a room in a hostel called something like Shrenki or whatever.I arrived quite late in Bankok because my plane from Phuket had 1.5h delay. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the evening with a nice meal at the restaurant. The next three days I shopped as much as I can. As I told you already I was allowed to take 64kg with me plus hand luggage. At the end I was able to buy 20 kg so I had 40 in total. Now I think I should have bought a bigger bonger and muuuuuuuch more souvenirs :). I missed out a lot of the sights in Bankok but had an awesome time. While I was shopping I got to know to a German dude called Tobias. I met him again on the top of a skyscraper in Bankok. Actually, it was an all around open restaurant and bar. Pretty cool. My friend Ooh picked me up from my hotel and accompied me. Indeed, she showed me even around her city ;). We had a drink and took some great pics. Hopefully, I will get them from her. Afterwards we went to a club in the 'famous' area Pelang (I have to look up the spelling :) ). Well, it's the red light district but they have some normal bars there, too ;). We danced till 2 because everything closes and went then with a couple of new friends to an illegal club. Till the end of the night. I didn't sleep much to get more tired in the plane. The next day I had some last fit sessions for my suits and a beautiful dinner with Ooh. Grabbed a cab from my hotel around 9.30pm with a German couple and really wanted to stay longer in Bangkok. Shopping and going out is great there. I tell you just save the money for buying clothes and get a ticket to Bangkok instead. Just take your clothes on your body with you. You can buy everything there and save a lot of money at home. At the end, you'll probably saved enough money to make it up for the plane ticket. So, if you plan your next holidays and haven't been in Asia. Go for it! Will publish now some pics since the last ones. Don't get confused with the different chronology :).

Friday, February 17, 2006


without words...the end of the day of 12|01|06 on the coast of Ko Lanta in Thailand.

Enjoy this ;) and buy your plane ticket to Thailand ;).

And with a Chang beer in my stubby holder having this beautiful view in front of me I know why people get stucked in Thailand ;).

What a day the 12|01|06!

And such a beautiful diving day has to be finished classically with a nice drink and sunset :).

Here you get some more corals ;).

Close up of a barracuda. This night I had one for dinner. Delicious!

Then we swam through a rock hole filled with little fishes. The world is full of miracles ;).

Some barracudas floating in the water. They didn't really move a lot.

More! Beautiful, isn't it!? It was so stunning to see them almost fly through the water.

huge moray eel ;).

Had been shown fishes you can't recognize at the first view ;).

Took more pics of the mantas :).

saw more scorpion fishes,...

Watch the corals.

We also saw scorpion fishes :).

Friday, February 10, 2006


Wow. Yes, it was huge :). At first we went down for a little swim around the rock and watch fish dive. Only a little rock looks out of the water but goes deep down to the ground. Actually, there are two therefore you got those two names. We dived the first one where we saw those mantas. Fortunately, as we had been we had two and they were circle for 20minutes above our heads. While the past me they were just one meter above my head and I could have touched it. It was awesome! we didn't stay longer because we had been down there already for one hour! I was the first time really good in keeping my air usage low and I got my surprise ;). Just ace.





Watch the Video

took off to Hin Duang and Hin Muang - the manta dive sites.

12|01|06 Next day...We jumped into the speed boat and...

And if you imagine me on the last picture looking to my ride side I saw those palm trees and the long stretched beach. Indeed, the name of the beach was Long Beach a bit further up the North.

So I went later with a buddy from the resort along the beach and we found those great chairs directly at the beach front. We listened to the waves coming rhythmically towards us.

But at first I took my first tuc-tuc-ride ever. Was much fun. In Bangkok I will or used it more often.

Those were people from Munich. Yes, they obviously came to Thailand to meet people from their own town. At least, the crew were locals.

so we just had a ride around the top of the island to pick up some peple from the beach and what happened!? Yes, the engine didn't start properly anymore. This meant the trip had to be cancelled. Nice work. Happenend to me already twice in Australia but you had to think positive. I wanted to do a dirt ride around the island instead but at the end, the tour started already and I wanted to go diving tomorrow to the manta site at Hin Muang and Hin Duang. I did it with another company and got my money back. You'll see it was worth every cent.

11|01 This is the port in the background. We are on a speed boat now but this doesn't mean it's reliable.

As I arrived at the 'port' which was more a little village besides a street I wanted to check out the diving centre there. But, oh what a surprise, there were kind of 15 centres there and I lost the overview. So I spent nearly 3 hours to check out stuff and chose the wrong one at the end. Indeed, it was the more expensive one and the other reason is more relevant but I will tell you this later. At least those people from the shop - they were from Munich - gave me a ride to my bungalow resort. They are staying the season on Ko Lanta and in summer they fly back to Munich. Well, I call this a comfortable life. Actually, there are heaps of Germans there and even more Swedish people. The island is also called 'Little Sweden'. Nevertheless, I found or was shown a nice backery where you get this dark bread you surely crave for in Thailand. Excellent! At the end, I ate some fried bananas you see on the pic. After this, I had to eat them every day. In addition, I watched a cheap movie and started to relax and was looking forward to my booked diving trip tomorrow.

...We passed a few islands on our way. One was called Ko Jam. It should be quite relaxing and calm but I wanted to go a bit further South. As you can see on the map the big island is Ko Lanta and we came from the top.

Those boats are being used to pick up passenger from the ferry. In the background you see a part of Ko Jam.

...hello Lanta! What I missed was that there are beautiful beaches around Krabi but you have to travel a bit along the coast. But now, I want to tell you a bit about the ferry ride...

That's the river side in Krabi. If you look down to the other picture it's just on your left behind the trees.

The next day I lost my travel body and made my way to Ko Lanta. Actually, we talk at first about Ko Phi Phi but I wanted to see the other island and went afterwards to Phi Phi. Goodbye Krabi...

10|10 This is now a part of Krabi. I left at noon Langkawi in Malaysia for the port of Satun in Thailand. Met a travel buddy on the ferry and we went by bus to Hat Yai changed to another and drove up to Krabi. Unfortunately, this took ages and we had to stay overnight in Krabi which you can see on the pic. Well, that's really all I can tell you about it. We had been thrown out of the second class bus and had to pay as much for the 10min cab ride as for the 500km bus ride. I tell you this wasn't a coincident. That's Thailand! They are organized to get your money ;). Well, actually it's still cheap. We pay for the bus 158 Bath and for the cab together 150 again. Nothing really to care about and it was so late already.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006


And this is the view if you lift up your head from the cats. I just love this atmosphere ;).



But now I'm back at the guest house. Yeah, those cats are still or again there ;)

Guess....yeah...a jelly fish ;)! We found five of them on our stroll beack. It was a very low tide and they got stranded. They aren't so soft as you might think.

Every night will take an end. We walked back to our guest house along the beach. Took a couple of shots among this one. We loved to play with our shadows in front of the shining moon ;).

And grabbed from time to time a Chang beer from the bar ;).

At this night those locals took some girls to the island in the bay for a big bonfire ;). ...LOL...I hope for them it didn't end in a great run and swim ;). I chilled meanwhile in the hammock ;)

Yeah, those reggae dudes loved those pois ;). Was fun to watch them.

After all the stress of the day we went to the Reggae Bar again ;). Just chillin'

And I had a little guest, too ;)

Then I found this little kitty on the beach ;).

Soon, I enjoyed a good book on the beach. I think it was raining in Germany in this moment ;).

At first, Langkawi is a bit more expensive for accomondation than the rest of the islands. But this little shop besides the street was so bloddy cheap. You paid for one piece of those stuff only 10 Eurocent! I ate heaps of it. Delicious. They used a lot of coconut with sugar but I loved it ;)

9|1| We're still in Langkawi and those are the cats of my guest house ;)

Thursday, February 02, 2006


Here is the most beautiful beach and bay of Langkawi.

7|1| eve...After so much exploring we enjoyed the bars at the beach again. In front of the Reggae Bar a dude of the staff performed with those fire chains several shows per night. Just ace. I bought also some ;). Well, hope to be able to handle those for my next holiday on the beach ;).

And here are the bikers ;). The bike on the right side was mine ;). Yeah!