I was so lucky, that one of my best freinds from home, who now studies in Buenos Aires, came to visit me here in Chile. This led to us spending the weekend in Santiago with her friend Kati, where Helena and Pia went to the Lollapalooza festival. We arrived Friday afternoon, at the bus terminal. At first sight, from the bus, the city looked very boring and not like a big city at all, but it turned out later that this was only because we were in the outskirts in the city. We arrived at the hostel that we had booked on beforehand, since everything is booked the weekend of Lollapalooza. When we arrived they told us that hostelbookers.com had overbooked the hostel and our room wasn’t available. At first I got really annoyed, but the ... read more

10/2-13: After a quite long flight for such a short distance due to bac connections we finally arrived in Antofagasta, which was a really oldschool airport with only one baggage belt which was inside a tent. When we arrived we felt like we had landed on the moon, a breathtaking landscape, all grey-brown dessert and the mountains in the background. We found a minivan to the bus terminal which cost 5.000 pesos but there were nowhere to exhange money and the only ATM in the airport had no money in it. A nice local man asked us in German where we were going and he lend us money to the minivan and helped us at the busterminal. He had been an exchange student in Germany and knew how it was to be a bit lost. There ... read more

We got up at 8 and packed everything and had breakfast. It was a bit hard, I really wanted to stay - going to Bangkok means going home soon. We found a taxi and luckily the boat was leaving 10 minutes after we arrived at the pier, without any planning from our side. At the mainland we found a minibus for 300 bath to bangkok. We arrived at our hotel around six in the evening and had a shower. Then we went for dinner and afterwards we booked a tour to Ayuttaya temples for two days later. We met up with Pé and one of his friends and had some beers. When he had closed his shop we went to the club "under" Kao Sahn street in a basement - good music but super loud and ... read more

We arrived in the airport after a good flight, this time it didn't feel as long as usual. We wanted to take a taxi from the airport but because my father brought his bike in a big box, no one wanted to drive us with taxi meter from the stands at the airport, everyone wanted 800 bath which is far too much. We tried to see if there were any busses for Kao Sahn but without luck. But we were lucky enough to meet one taxi by the parking house and he agreed to take us for 400 bath. It was not easy getting the bike secured in the trunk and sitting with all our backpacks in the taxi but we managed. We arrived at the hotel that my father had booked from home very cheap, ... read more

We got up at 8 and took the boat to the mainland and thereafter we went by bus to Ranong. Unfortunately we had to spend a night there because the last boat for Koh Chang had already left, a bit of a shame since we didnt have many days left. In Ranong we searched for the night market, but after walking around for ages we guessed that it was closed. Instead we had thai food at a local restaurant where there was live music and later we watched 'grimlings' on TV there. The next morning we got up at 8 and had som breakfast at Pons Place. After that we got on a minibus and down to the harbour where we got on the longtail boat to Koh Chang. Unfortunately the boat broke down after 20 ... read more