Last Saturday, I'm landed back in Germany! After 2 weeks in the heat (38 degrees) and humidity (90%), I somehow got on the typical German weather currently 15 degrees and overcast sky:) Every day the sun can also be annoying at some point! Here you can forward still on a cloudless and sunny day.) Incidentally, I've also caught a fat sunburn, even though I was always in the shade.
Apart from the hot weather and the associated Dauertranspiration, it was on the island is very beautiful. White sand beaches, few tourists, beautiful sunsets. While it was intended season and so little going on anyway, but even in the peak Ko Lanta not be as crowded as the "tourist resorts" Ko PhiPhi or Ko Samui. So if a relaxing beach holiday with lazing in the sun, splashing in the sea and read thick novels studied, the warmest I can recommend the island. Little more is there can not do!
You can rent a scooter, which I did. So you can go around the whole island, and as a small and secluded beach look. With such a trip can be seen as well as the residents of Ko Lanta, mostly Muslims, live in the interior. Middle of the jungle, in simple bamboo huts without electricity or running water. A moped is but mostly from the cottage in which there are a dime a dozen.
Inland, there is a cave, Tham Khao Mai Kaew, which I have as a diversion from the daily "beach program on an early morning views. With a guide, it first goes on narrow paths through the jungle, until one after about 30 minutes at the entrance. Is so small that one more hineinkriecht to run as. With a head lamp on his head, it is then more or less a bent position on pitch-dark by the big and small caves. Just before the output has to be on all fours, crawling through a hole in the wall of rock on which one can decide, in the bat cave, hanging upside down for hundreds on the ceiling. After that I was glad to see daylight again and breathe fresh air. Was definitely an exciting and interesting thing.
from the island back to Bangkok, I went with the night train in a sleeping wagon. Was a more relaxed option than the bus could even sleep! Because of the continuing unrest in Bangkok, I wanted to spend the day not so long, so I'm already in the afternoon was at the airport, even though the flight left at midnight. Prefer there to serve the time as in a bar in Bangkok where perhaps purely a grenade flies.
My impression of the Thais is more mixed. I was most annoyed that you will angequascht constantly on the road ("Hello, where are you going?"). The central station in Bangkok, I took a shower the morning after the long train ride. This can in principle with the temperatures make 2-3 a day, I still wanted at least 1 time before I get on the plane :-) Like a shower looks at a railway station in South East Asia, one can imagine so, but I am now some used to. When I just pack my things back in the pack, yet so quatscht me to a Thai. "Hello, how long do you stay in Bangkok. What are you doing today? What do think of what my reply is that I tell each running up what I'm doing today? Or perhaps urgently need a property that I can then mediate a guy out of the shower? That is what 98% of the cases so any business with such a stupid "Farang"!
clear many Thai's live from the tourists but there are many other countries, and there will not be accosted so stout and bold. Ok, maybe I'm a little spoiled by Japan, where such behavior is unthinkable, but whatever I hate it in principle angelabbert be on the road because of a business, no matter in which country. You have the whole deal
already with a certain Kaltschnäutzigkeit and remain steadfast when it comes to negotiating the price. Specifically for taxi drivers. Before getting always ask the price and setting. For 250 THB, I started at the airport, he then tried to strike out 300, "its ok".
"No its not ok!" After a brief back and forth then it stopped at 250!
time in the old home I use a few things to settle and prepare for the next Tripp. Back to a regulated life with a troughs 8-hour job, which I am currently nee further away than ever before!
Personal freedom and the daily new impressions which have been on the road again, I like too good!
the last few months I was very much in cities and had no physical challenges, my body longs out for new outdoor adventures. Northern Europe, with its untouched nature is predestined :-)
