Summer begins

After the somewhat cold weather in Nepal, lets say estonian autumn without the rain, time came to heat up in the sun in Thailand. Relaxing times with my friends Kairit and Marcia. All the sun and comfort makes me too lazy to write. Marcia however, as a proper Portuguese is naturally used to sun and it does not hamper her creativity, therefore I invite to read her blog: http://marcia-making-a-difference.blogspot.com/
I will still put down a few notes of the 12 days so far:
- arriving on kho San road and seeing people in one big row in deck chairs having foot massage. Hard to explain, but after 3 months in Nepal, just seeing this made me realise how very different environment it is.
- its so clean. I think I should stop comparing Thailand to Nepal. Completely different worlds.
- activities that have produced some adrenaline: riding on an elephants neck, scooter riding, diving from a 5-6m cliff, jumping to the middle of a river with a swing, getting drunk after 3 months (and waking up with no headache and going swimming to the sea (80m from the bungalow)
- the fruits here! They are amazing! Many wonderful things I have never seen before or which I have but now can eat fresh. We have eaten pineapple that was picked up earlier that day.
- it can happen that after swimming for a while you feel (too) hot and need to dive deeper.
- generally speaking, everything is at least twice the price than in Nepal, but twice as cheap as in Belgium.

That's it, the sound of the waves 20m away are making me sleepy. Tomorrow will be transport day: ko lanta island - krabi - Bangkok. Bus to Bangkok is 14h overnight bus. We will end up seeing the Chinese new year from the bus window. That's pretty idiotic, but by now I'm quite zen, so be what may. We will have our discobus.