Some pics from Bangkok

The Giant Swing, some people making exercise on a central park, a plublic gym in the middle of the park, a temple at night, dragonfruit, an example of a traffic light with countdown in seconds, and three pictures of the Wat Arun temple.

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even more to the south

It is difficult to find time to write the blog, the environment here is so nice that you just don't want to look somewhere else...

We are now in the island of Lanta "Koh Pants" in Thai. I had one day again stomach problems and Daniela the next day, but it's everything working back as usual.

Today we took again a rented motorbike and drove down the island. There are a lot of nice little "calas" which you can not go by car and thus are not so saturated. Really nice!! Warm clear water with white sand and palm trees in the background. Paradise...

We have however changed our bungalow 3 times in 4 days... The first one had a lot of mosquitos and the bathroom was really dirty, it had worms inside the bamboo that you could hear them chewing the wood! The second one is the one you see on the youtube video "where else". It was beautiful, BUT it was so 'nature's free feeling that in the bathroom we had big crabs and on the roof rats... pity because the place was beautiful. Now we're next to there but with a clean and nice bungalow with air-conditioning, for the same price...

We'll probably go tomorrow snorkeling again! I think we will probably see clown fishes (the one from Nemo).

Cheers for everybody!

D&J.

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the southern islands

Today we were on the beach were the movie (the beach) with Leonardo di Caprio was filmed. Snorkling and seing some monkeys in the beach, I even saw 2 sharks passing below me, I was a bit afraid...

Tomorrow more pics!

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hiking and biking

We went on a 2hour hike tour and later did a downhill ride on mountain bikes. It was so much fun! The pictures were taken with the other camera, so just some now...

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Really happy that I brought my mobile phone with me. So far I used it to browse on internet, emailing,look for hostels, as a gps navigator, as a camera, as a blogger, as a Wifi VoIP to call home for 0cent/min, but actually I think I haven't used it as a normal phone yet!

So, don't get an iPhone! Take an Android!

Next photos are from the south :)

Regards from the paradise...

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waterfalls, plenty! highest mountain from Thailand

Just some pictures, I have no time to explain much. We visited Doi Inthanon national park, the umbrella making city and a hot-spring, on a rental car and motorbike!

Check new videos on YouTube!

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Buddhist Lessons

Next day, while having breakfast at Julie's Guesthouse, we met Kihn, a Birmanesse-Australian teacher, who happened to play the guitar very nicely. We actually thought we were listening to the radio, but it was him next to our table.

After several transcendental conversations about India, we managed to get to the temple next to us, in which two times a week you can have a chat with a Buddhist Monk that speaks english. It was really relaxing and interesting. We learned a lot and asked questions to the monk. He was from Cambodia and had been student for 8 years. Now he was 28.

Buddhism seems like a nice balanced and peaceful religion to me, I may need to learn more about it.

Later, we walked through the night market, SO MANY things! While walking around I have the feeling that we should have come with a truck, and then drive back to Europe full of nice and cheap items.

Cheers!

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A video overview of the Doi Suthep Temple

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Doi Suthep Temple, Chiang Mai

Hello World! We're flying tonight down to the south of Thailand. We have decided to take the plane since the bus would have taken almost two days, and we found thanks to our new US-India friend Pallavi, a low-fare airline that flies down there. If you want to come to visit us, I think they fly from Europe also. (Fernando? Air-asia)

The pictures from this post are from a temple on top of a mountain near Chiang-Mai. We rented a couple of mopeds (scooters) and went up with three new colleagues that we met in Sukhothai. Matt, Nima and Pallavi. It was fun! That was Thursday last week, it has happened a lot since then, so I will be writing now in the Blog for like an hour.

I think after the ride, we went to eat some Israeli food to the restaurant Mama Falafel, pretty nice food but strange owner.

In the same mountain where the temple is, there is several waterfalls, but only one was open to the 'public'. I say this because later, in our trip hiking and down-hill mountain bike, we learned that those signs are only for tourists...

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