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Published: January 23rd 2007
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As we now have almost been travelling 3 months, there has been a lot of adaptation to our trip, luggage and ourselves. This might be the most important thing about travelling, to everyday face new challenges. I have already sent back two big and heavy packages just to get more space in my backpack and ease the weight of it. I no longer have any white clothes nor blacks. White clothes pick up staines too easily and black are just too hot in the sun.
You also change in the things you take great pleasure of. It is now a proper toilet, a shower with proper water-pressure, a room where no cockroachers can get in. Small things that would seem obvious to us back home. We don't mind things that would upset you in other places.
My general thoughts is that countries that have less, like Thailand or Marocco, have more in other ways. I don't agree with all the laws in England or Sweden, soon there will only be one permitted way of tying your shoelaces. In the poorer countries for sure there is badly drawn powerwires, which would not be permitted in west. But the people need
power. And they realise it is dangerous so they don't touch the cables. And everything works fine, year after year. Now in west, some kid would touch the cable and get electrecuted and then the powercompany would be sued and on and on.
My point is that here people have common sense while we seem to rely on laws in lack of common sense. They have less material things and maybe not a government that tells them what to do and think so they manage on their own. And I bet they don't believe everything that is written in the newpapers. So less laws and more common sense.
Anyway, back to our travels. It is more travelling now since we entered another country. And it's a bit different here, I could never imagine living in Thailand but maybe in Malaysia so I don't scan for good and bad things in a living-here-sense. And we are a bit rushed, because are visa will run out in 30 days and well, there is a lot to see. We will most likely have to save half to come back to after Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. But then we now have to decide what half to visit now.
The last week or so I have had a cold which has been a impact on things to do. The energy has gone and you don't want to snorkel for hours when you have a blocked nose. So the last week has mainly been relaxing and slowness.
We came to Koh Lanta from Koh Lipe and got a room for the night. Koh Lanta is now a Swedish island with probably 50% Swedish, 30% Thai and 10 % other tourists. In my eyes it is never nice with that high consentration of any nationality, just go anywhere with a lot of Americans or Israelis and you will know what I mean. We mainly stayed for ourselves, feeling different from the charter-tourists. They do however bring some good things, like bearnaise-sas. I managed to get it twice at one of the million Swedish restaurants. It was good. We're not used to well-cooked western food as thai don't really know how to do it. Bad thing of course it is expensive, people that go for two weeks usually spend a lot more money weekly than people that go for two years and that gives higher prices.
At Lanta we rented a motorbike for a couple of days to discover the island. The eastcoast is not much to see, they have a place called Oldtown which is an old town. They did have a place with really nice hammocks, but cost waaaaay too much. The westcoast is pretty much resort after resort after resort all along the beaches. We went to see some of Amies brothers friends who lives there.
I managed to get a shirt and a pair of shorts for less than five pounds. The shorts had a different colour than they did in the tent, but still really nice. I only had one pair of shorts that fit really well, but now I have two. I pretty much wear the same kind of clothes everyday, an armsless top and shorts. T-shirts are too warm. When sun sets I change into a shirt and trousers, to escape the mosquitos.
Bad news! My tan is flaking again. Probably because I haven't been much in the sunshine lately. I also have a theory that it is connected to the amount of water you drink, but I have been drinking a lot lately so there must be some kind of other reason. I guess I just have to spend a couple of days on the beach soon.
We arrived in Krabi (Ao Nang) two days ago and there is even more Swedes here! Walking the streets at night you don't hear anything but Swedish. Scary!
The only thing we want to do here is to go sea kayaking, but I want to be well before we do it. Then it is on to Koh Phangang where Amie has a friend from back home.
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Bearnaise-sas huh? You´re addicted, you might just as well admit it. Seems like those Swedes are taking over the world, I can't stand them. ;-) /The Swede