Well, after saying goodbye to some people from the volunteer project in Bangkok (along with a drink), there has been a lot of traveling. Along with two guys, Tim and Berry, I went to the southern part of Thailand. And visited four very different places in four days..
After Bangkok we didn’t knew exactly where to go to. I am known for being a bad long-term planner, and it seems that I am not the only one that is cursed by this :) So we went to the southern bus station of Bangkok and selected a place to go there. It was Petchaburi. Why? Because it was in the southern direction and it had a highlight in the lonely planet.
Petchaburi turned out to be a quite small and quiet town. With only two guesthouses it was not a place visited by many backpackers. What made this city unique was the enormous amount of temples. I lost count, but I think there must be over 30 tempels in the town. Ofcourse, after spending already two months in Thailand, the temples are not that interesting anymore. So after a short visit, we went to the other attraction of the town: Monkeyhill. There are temples built on the hill in the city and here lives, among the monks, the monkeys. Always fun to see and annoying if they get your water or try to grab other things of you :) After a beautiful (if I was with a girl it would be romantic) sunset, we went back to the guesthouse. We met a thai guy there that and we asked if there was a nightclub in town. Friendly as ever, he offered us to bring us there by scooter. So an hour later we were with 3 farrang (foreigners) and the thai guy in an almost empty nightclub on a sunday night :) But it was fun, we drank whiskey (in the more chique clubs you drink scottish whiskey, not the thai whiskey which is actually quite good) and the band played special english songs for us. The next day we plated some computergames with the thai guy from the guesthouse.
But not really a place to stay for a long time. So a little bit more south. To Hua Hin, to cool down on the beach. When we arrived it looked okay, although the beach was not as white as at Koh Samet. At night we witnessed another famous part of tourism in Thailand: old man’s town. Imagine a street full of bars, and the only people you see are europen men above 50. And Thai girls around the age of 20-25. For three young guys not really the best place to have a night out. So we decided to go further south the next day..
The first bus to the south brougth us to Ranong (we didn’t knew what the city was about at the time) and after a full day in the bus we arrived there in the evening. As there was not much to do we played some pool and get some sleep to get the early 6 a.m. bus the next day to Krabi.
Because now we had a plan!
We wanted to do mountain climbing, and the best place to do that is in Krabi. So we booked at a resort at the beach and booked a 3-day climbing course. Today we had our first climbs against the steep mountains. We started with grade 5B, which was doable. However the second route was grade 6B which was hard to do, and none of us finished it completely. You have to hang on your fingertops with this one. After a rest-day tomorrow, and strengthening our muscles, we will do more climbing saturday and sunday. The nature here is amazing and it is a worldwide famous place for mountain climbers. Really great place to be!
After the climbing course we go to Ko Pan-Nang to witness the infamous full- moon party ourselves. And after this giant party (15.000 people) I will head to Cambodja.
I put some pictures of the last few days in the photoalbum Thailand South.
sawai dee, krab!
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