Category: SE Asia Dec 18 – Jun 19

… we thought about the meaning of our life. For getting proper answers we asked an expert and here is his assessment.

What a magical day, so many wonderful impressions!

The buddhist monks live in „Wonderland“, which is really a very energetic forest between some high rocks with very big trees in it. Everything was soooo calm … we enjoyed it very much!

The monkeys waiting on the steps to the entry of the wonderland forest showed how you have to leave monkey mind behind to feel the magic and relaxation of wonderland forest ^^

Therefore: Don‘t feed the monkey (mind)! 😀

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Finally mainland after one month of island chilling. 3 h with a ferry, 3 h bus drive and here we are. Two days in Krabi town. Honestly, we get stressed just by spelling the word TOWN 😀

And here we are:

Ban Punmanus Guesthouse
122 Soi Nathvithi, Krabi rd, Paknam, Muang Krabi, Kerabi 81000, Thailand

https://goo.gl/maps/2m7Cnf7qz372

The last 2 days we took some off-time, just laying at the pool or at the veranda, thinking about the life and what’s important for us.

Tomorrow we will move to a new location, it will be a surprise.

So stay calm and keep on reading…

Hey, we not only did some shopping ^^ we also went hiking to a waterfall in the jungle (me in flip-flops!)

I also did my first scooter driving 🙂 and last but not least I performed some nearly world class header jumps in the pool just for Andy <3

You see, today we will really have to relax … 😀

After nearly 4 weeks here in Thailand we got frustrated because we found so many shops and boutiques with so lovely shirts and dresses but they never fit – Even if we mostly eat rice every day 🙁

But today we found a shop (a very small one far away from the main shopping streets) which offers shirts in 5xl for me and dresses which fits to Faye. Note, 5xl in Thailand means 2xl in Europe :-p

We started to buy all we got but than we remembered out limit capacity in our bags. So we finished with 3 items each…

Is was indeed delicious and made with love.

Highly recommended…

Today we went to our new location on Ko Pha-ngan, an area calls Chaloklum.

We found this location last time while our scooter tour and Faye felt in love about this peaceful place, so we decided to book a beach bungalow for a week. And so here we are.

This is the view from our veranda, really relaxing.

The resort itself is a bit like in the film “Hotel Budapest”, it was a 5 star, but it stops operating in high quality so it’s now a kind of 2.5 stars. But we have AC, a fridge and bathtubs. Nonsensical and Freaky indeed…

Chaloklum Bay Resort Koh Phangan
68 Moo 7, T.Koh Phangan, A.Koh Phangan, Suratthani, Thailand, Tambon Ko Pha-ngan, Koh Pha Ngan, Chang Wat Surat Thani 84280, Thailand

https://goo.gl/maps/1MBZB3iAqcE2

That‘s how the beach looked like when we arrived:

And that‘s how it looks today:

Pabuk changed his speed an direction more to the south, so the center of the cyclon is not on us any more. From the radar view we expect the worst part is over, 3h earlier than calculated.

A few bottles of water, some coffee, two beer and two bags full of food – should be enough to stay inside for the next 24 hours or so 😉

Today we choose our dinner in a Milanese operated Pizzaria. Wooden oven, perfect dough, real Salami and original Salsiccia.

Was soooo tasty and a perfect  variety after 3 weeks Thai food.

We finished with 2 hot Segafredo Espresso (but we were too fearful trying the Tiramisu).

Indeed a budget killer, but

YOLO

The cyclon “Pabuk” is on the way to the gulf of Thailand and will hit Ko Phan-gan Friday night, 11pm.

Luckywise we don’t have a beach Bungalow so we are save from the high waves

You can follow the moving of the cyclon and all metrological data here:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=9.3;101.0;5&l=wind-10m&t=20190103/03

Cross fingers that it won’t be so dramatic as described in the news

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30361480

http://thailandtip.info/2019/01/02/die-erste-schwere-warnung-vor-einem-tropischen-sturm-fuer-den-sueden-seit-1962

is the name of our famous Thai restaurant.

Fabulous authentic food, local atmosphere, reasonable prices and  kind people, that’s all we need.

If you ever visit  Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach check it out

http://www.tripadvisor.de/ShowUserReviews-g303907-d1791027-r642928406-Again_and_Again-Ko_Pha_Ngan_Surat_Thani_Province.html

To our family, all our friends and followers

The journey will continue

 

Looks like a toy and the 125cc scooter had some problems in the mountains with over 19%  gradient and Faye and me on it.

But we ( and the scooter) survived

Breakfast: in the resort restaurant: unexpected expensive, standard quality but very small portions

Lunch: we skipped, just a beer

Dinner: in a high rated restaurant at the beach: horrible expensive but high quality. Unfortunately again baby portions, so we where still hungry. We went next door to a local restaurant for an addon, very bad decision. Incredible cheep, but poor quality ( very fat and we strongly guess flavor enhancers).

So Faye is again in bed with medicine and whiskey.

What a food desaster, maybe we do not like this beach…

After one week we left the lonely Bottle Beach and now we are 6km further at Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach.

It’s also lovely here, we enjoy the AC, the large and comfortable bed and the hot shower. Sadly we are on the top of the garden, so no beach view. I will try to change that now. I keep you posted…

Add: fully booked out, so we need to stay on the hill…

Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach
Ban Tai, Ko Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani, Thailand
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUSVr

… is what makes travelling so exciting.

So beautiful that we met Karin, I‘m sure we‘ll meet again someday! 🙂

Collecting lovely shiva shells (thx Karin! :D)

Yesterday I thought it would be nice to have a starter for our dinner. So I ordered “prawn cracker” because I imagined it was something I saw at the neighbour’s table with real fried prawns.

In fact it was just prawn cracker, like chips but made with prawnpowder. They taste quite good, not what I imagined, but ok.

What I and Faye did not realised while eating was that such kind of food contains flavor enhancers  and Faye is highly allergic against it. So after one hour after finishing our main course Faye felt very bad and her blood pressure got down. It took some time to getting back into our room.

Luckywise we had the right medicine with us and a glas of Thai whiskey helped against the nausea.

Today she is better and we learned another importand lesson:

– Real Thai food is healthy

– Convenient Thai food is as bad as everywhere else in the world.

So don’t buy or order it…

• Watching the bird

Other cool activities:

• Having a nap
• Dancing with crabs
• Being scared of the jelly fish
• Searching shells
• Listening to the sound of the ocean
• Enjoying real Thai food

Now you know it 😛

And off we went again … bye bye Koh Samui .,. Here we are Koh Phangan 🙂

Taxi, Catamaran, Taxi, Long Boat and now we feel like at the end of the world at Bottle Beach

Living at the edge of the jungle for one week … little bit scary for me to be honest ^^ but we have already seen some monkeys in the trees, woohoo 😀

Smile Bar
Ko Pha-ngan, Ko Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani 84280, Thailand

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gq3DG

After one week we dare to post this kind of pictures 😉

And yes, you may hate us now!

But who cares anyway, breakfast is waiting … 😛

Today we decided to make a tourist day. Overall that means: spending 5 times more money than usually. But it was a very nice variety.

First we hired a scooter, and (why not) we took the one with the big machine. Good choice with me and Faye on it(^^). Driving was a huge challenge because of the often flooded streets and the crazy other drivers. But at the end all went smoothly.

So what did we as a tourist?

Visiting the shopping streets on high street

Enjoying a (tasty but expensive) fruit shake and real Espresso

Saying hi to the golden Buddha

Having a look at the other beaches with the huge resorts and sun umbrellas

Making some fotos of the Dick-Stone (not a nice view for a man of 50 😉 )

Having a bigger dinner and more beer than usually 😀

That’s it .

Was it worth it?

Sure, it was another experience… 🙂

Most of the other bagpackers here are only half our age but have twice as much baggage 😛

Andy: Look my dear, it will rain in a second.

Faye: are you sure?

Andy: yeapp…

That‘s how a really really chilled-out man looks like!

Interesting, a thunderstorm at the see is more impressive than in the city. Never heard such a loud thunder and the flashes were amazing. Not talking about the tons of water coming from the sky. But finally no serious damage and we are very lucky resting in a stone house with hard roof and not in a tent.

1. Red curry tastes better than the green one

2. Chang is better than Singha

3. Many clouds mean no sunburn

4. Air-condition is cool

5. We love our life

…or just a fantasy

Still wondering

Tired but VERY happy

Strand Resort Restaurant . Beach Club Strand
Moo 6 ตำบล แม่น้ำ Amphoe Ko Samui, Chang Wat Surat Thani 84330, Thailand

https://goo.gl/maps/Qhd3JThxkW92

Bye Bye to everyone, take care, have a lot of fun and visit us somewhere sometime  if you like <3

… and we are on the way to the airport. For European winter we wear definitely the wrong clothes. But we are looking forward to 27 degrees in Ko Samui 🙂