… Anja and I've been walking through the hot streets of Bangkok, eating delicious spicy food and enjoying the sun, and just now I've returned from cross country skiing just in front of our door. Awesome holiday!
I still owe you some stories and pictures, so here we go:
The trekking in the area of Chiang Mai was not as expected, but exciting anyway. We ate frog, squirrel and spider, had food and rice wine together with local people, took pictures and played with the cute and interested children at school, and - of course - walked a lot through the jungle. One day our skilled guides (for some reason, we had two of them) prepared lunch in the jungle. They chopped big and small bamboo stems and made chopsticks, pots for cooking the rice, noodles and vegetables as well as cups out of it.
Our "main" guide Singh is a real "jungle man". He carved different tricky games out of bamboo and even a bamboo-gun (which is, of course, not a real gun). Thank you, Singh, for your company! We really enjoyed the trip.
After that we took two successive night trains to Chumporn (which is usually spelled "Chumphon", probably to prevent childish tourists like me from making fun of it…) and a ferry to Koh Tao, which means "turtle island". Actually, we saw no turtles there, but I guess there were some of them some time ago (before the tourists came), and now the name still attracts tourists. However, the island is more famous for the nice beaches and the corals which you can explore by snorkeling or diving. We enjoyed ourselves there, hanging out at the beach or relaxing in the hammock just in front of our bungalow, walking through the small city center at the Mae Haad pier drinking mango shakes, or having some Thai massage (the reliable ones - without "happy ending"…).
Now that we're back it somehow feels unreal being surrounded by snow and cold after three weeks of heat, sun, sand and the sea… we like it!
Picture update, starting here.
Also wieder zurück?
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