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Just a few pictures from our 2 day visa run stay at Langkawai... read more

A short entry about the festival we just attended here in Thailand. One of the many beautiful festivals that takes place in Thailand is the one for Loy Krathong. This is celebrated on the full moon in November. The word loy means to float, and a krathong is a banana leaf cup. People place a candle and incense sticks in their krathongs and then float them on a local river, pond or in the ocean. You should place some coins, a piece of a nail and some of your hair in your krathong and as you push away the krathong, ask for forgiveness for polluting the waterways during the past year but also for good luck in the coming year. A friendly spirit arranged so that we could learn how to make our own krathong and ... read more

Greetings, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur and Ao-nang/Raighley are some of the places we have visited during the last month. We are now on our second entry of our VISA and we only have to extend the VISA once more before we head back home on the 30th of december. We have found that if you live in a rubber plantation, go for the salty thai made toothpaste instead of a european/american brand. If you do you get to keep the paste to yourselves and do not have to share it with an uncountable amount of ants, who seems to love the sweeter brands. And if you are heading down to the national park on Ko Lanta make sure that you have good tires. When I travel to the park and intended to head back before it got ... read more

We have now spent 2 weeks studying and my Thai is picking up. It´s really hard and difficult but very rewarding and it´s great to be able to go to the restaurants and order in Thai. Or to try to start a most basic conversation about ages, names and where we come from and what we like. They have a big market at the school in Saladan every quarter and this week it was time again. Lots of food stalls and shops with all kinds imaginable and unimaginable things for sale. Along with the arrow throwing, ball throwing and soft air gun shooting stalls. Live music on a huge stage for this small town. It's been quite cold last couple of days and we are starting to get cold when the temperature ventures below 30 degrees ... read more

Diving I can now proudly announce that Arjuna and Sofus are now Open Water Divers. Congratulations kids!! Well done We had some really nice dives at Ko Haa Lagoon and Ko Bida. Watching Hawk bill turtles gracefully swim around and small Black Tip Reef Sharks cruising the reefs. Among all the other wonderful creatures that populate our oceans. There are some truly nice diving spots around here and we’re hoping to enjoy a lot more dives during our stay here. And underwater photography looks really fun too. Pollution We stopped along the way to the diving spot to pick up some garbage from the waters. Unfortunately there are a lot of garbage floating around here, especially after the windy seasons and it’s very sad to see how we pollute the world we inhabit. Luckily our awareness ... read more