Blogs from San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai, North-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

Temples, elephant rides, lady boy shows. We love thailand :)... read more

I wish now that I'd stayed longer in Nepal - I think it takes two weeks to really start to love a place - but coming back to Thailand was like coming home. I had a big stupid grin on my face when I got back to Khoasan. I know, I have some gaps to fill in, but this entry is just about today. Sometimes there are days where you barely do anything, and absolutely nothing happens. And sometimes these are the days you know you'll remember best. Today was one of those days. And this is a rather long post about not much at all. After sitting around at the pool for a few hours, chatting, reading, messing around on Facebook, I decided I really wanted some pineapple - the kind you get in a ... read more

Es ist geschafft. Ich habe 6 Monate im verrückten Asien überlebt. Was für eine Zeit. Was für eine Erfahrung. Diese vier Sätze sind wohl diejenigen, die mir am meisten im Kopf herum schwirren. Ich bin im Moment selber noch nicht in der Lage dazu, überhaupt ansatzweise zu realisieren, was ich in den letzten Monaten alles erlebt habe. Bevor ich nun zum abschließenden und zurückblickenden Teil meiner Reise komme, hier erst noch ein paar Infos der letzten Tage. Den letzten Blog schrieb ich von der schönen Insel Koh Rong in Cambodia, von wo aus wir in einer 13 stündigen Busfahrt von der Küste in den Norden nach Siem Reap zu den Tempeln von Angkor fuhren. 13 Stunden – da könnte man in deutschen Verhältnissen mal locker von Waldshut-Tiengen nach Dänemark fahren – nicht so in Kambodscha. Die ... read more

Day 102 (Mon 17thDec) Managed to surface around 10am, had a quick look on facebook to see my friend Megan was downstairs in my hostel. I met Megan in Shanghai and again in Beijing. I was due to leave early on but because of the session the night before it didn’t happen. Me and Megan sat in the communal area of the hostel watching some idiot abroad and crying with laughter. It’s a shame I was leaving the day she arrived but as my trip is a slower one she’ll catch me at some point for a good drinking session maybe in Laos. After this I headed to the station to get my train to Ayutthaya, a place I had never heard off until a few days ago. It turns out this was once the central ... read more

Chiang Mai is the biggest town in the North ... it's very spread out with in the center the old town of Chiang Mai which is a LARGE block (with hundreds, if not thousands of soi/little streets) surrounded by a modern town ... takes mi about 15-20 minutes to drive from one side to the next, so u can image how the large the area is ... many IMPORTANT thai temples r here, which was seen in mi last blog ... i wanted to go into the monestery around my birthday, however now i was close to the center, had a nice, although VERY hot, room in a wonderful maze ... i decided i was gonna face mi worst fear, m afraid of heights ... thereafter i would just see and let the day take mi ... read more