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Ok, been quite a while since the last update and will be interestimng how long can I keep motivated writing this... :) From Khao Sok I took a minibus to Krabi and spent few days there. First place where I stayed was called Chan Cha Lay and was very nice hotel/questhouse. Coolest thing was the open air bathroom! They had built some kind of appandages to the building and so that the toilet was under cover but the shower was under the sky. Really nice one! If you ever go to Krabi town, i recommend to try that one. I spent couple of days hanging around the city and walked quite a lot. Experienced my first "culture shock" in Thailand! There's a semi big mall in Krabi and it was a weird moment to get there. ... read more

Thai boxing night was cool! The event was held at the outdoor thai boxing arena and there were quite a lot of people there. about half farangs (foreigners) and half local. The event had 9 fights and on fighter was a Swedish guy David who had his first thsai boxing fight in Thailand. The event started with the national anthem of Thailand and after that the first boxers entered the arena. Before every fight the boxers have some pretty nice rituals and there's traditional music in the background, very nice atmosphere. In the 5th match the boxers were little kids, maybe about 7-10 years old and they were really energetic and the crowds were cheering a lot more than in the other fights. The winner of the fight was titled to some kind of champion and ... read more

It's Kings Birthday today and pretty nice evening, little bit of fireworks going on and those candle air balloons floating in the air all the time. In Finland people thought last spring that they are UFOs until someone told that they are just lanterns in the air. Looks very cool though. I'm sitting now ate the beach bar sipping some singha and waiting for my coconut curry soup, so I'll write quickly what has happened during the last few days. As normally, the flights sucked. The ground crew at Helsinki-Vantaa airport had a strike on the departure day and the flight was delayed for over two hours. Of Course after we were boarded the plane... Good thing was that all my stuff found it's way to bangkok at the same time as I did. Flying sucks ... read more