B-B-B-Bangk-k-k-kok! Bangkok!

Hii friends! This morning I got up at 5.00 o'clock in the morning and the music still kept going. So I actually don't exactly know how long the music from the clubs are on. It was still dark and drunk people were partying on the street in the humid heat. I took my cab to the airport, checked in, drank a coffee and boarded. On the airplane I sat in the front raw next to the window. I haven't had such a nice seat for a while. Once again I was the only European sitting in the plane. Which basically means that people kept on staring... Until the capitain announced 'preparing for landing' I had a nice sleep in the plane. My eyes got stuck on the picturesque view over Bangkok, it gave me all goosebums thinking of me strolling alone through the streets. I hope I find a good boattrip through the river, from the plane I could see many interesting skyscrapers I want to see close, to scan its architecture a bit more. The taxidriver coud scarcely speak English, not even express himself that he wanted money before we take off... Later I understood that he needed money for the airport taxes... I didn't spend more than 9 sFr for the drive in total. He dropped me off in a tiny street, where I just saw where the hostel was. More lateeer...

Hard Rock Cafe in Phuket

Today I stood up a bit late, it was 10.30 already when I got up. You must know the only bad thing here in K-Hotel Patong is, that we are just next to the nightlife. Therefor I hear loud music all night long. I'm not quite sure but I think the music stops at 4 or 5 am. Often I'm awake until 2am as it makes it impossible for me to shut down normally. But it's okay, that is seriously the ONLY bad thing about the hotel. I rushed to the restaurant, even after all those days I'm here I don't know until when one can have breakfast... I sat down with my book 'A girl and a womans life' or something and ordered fresh fruit and pancakes. The waitresses here are so perfectly friendly and cute. I enjoyed my meal. Later in the afternoon I went to starbucks to have a Coffee Mocha and studied a bit Chinese signs. I'm fascinated from that language, honestly. I learned their signs for weekdays, months etc and I reckon their system makes more sense. Around 6 o'clock I skyped with my grandmother in Italy for approximately 30 minutes, she was very glad to hear me and we made up some plans for our summer holidays together in Calabria with her boyfriend Antonio. For my surprise I spoke Italian like I never stopped studying it. As if a button got switched on again. Good for me! 

Anyway, I went to the pool and swam a few lenghts, took a shower and got myself dressed. Today I saw a sign saying 'Hard Rock Cafe 800m ->' so I was determined to have my dinner there. My way there was quite funny... A Thai girl in my age came up to me and said: 'Hey sexy girl, where's your boyfriend' I laughed sarcastic and walked further, where a guy was like 'Hey where are you from? Australia?' I liked that. Why did he say Australia? Very happy I said 'Good guess, hey' smiled with my thumbs up and continued strolling. They try to get you involved in a conversation just to sell you something. You best off just nodd, smile and continue walking... When I came closer to the famous cafe I spotted a huge guitar with the sign 'Hard Rock Cafe'. I was amazed. Furthermore I heard live music. So I took a seat and enjoyed a meal with live sound.

another statement // things I notice

Guys, I'm having a good time, I'm enjoying really good and cheap food, I can chill out all day, reading a book, sucking in sunshine and its warmth, I'm having great experiences with coping all the stuff in a country where they speak really bad English, which is a great adventure. I love to compare things in general, pointing out similarities and contrasts and I'm happy to be here! 

Firstly, most female Thais don't shave. Not only Thais but also Asians in general. Many female Asians I met often had a bush growing along their legs. I'm actually not as disgusted as I thought I'd be; they don't go through the sacrifice of shaving every second day, so who is best off? 

Second funny thing I noticed, there are so many European/North American men in the age of 40 till death having a Thai girlfriend between 18 and 30 years. The men often look incredibly hygenic (watch out, irony) and the Thais are beautiful young girls, dressed in a west-ish look. But these girls seem to have a good time with those boys, even though I was often wondering if it is just a holiday fling, if they're here on holiday together or they live here as a couple. Who knows. 

Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch 'insurgent'. The movie was awesome. When cinema started they showed lots of advertisements first, including trailers and local adverts. In between all those adverts (by the way everything was written and said in Thai, exept the movie was in English) there was something written in Thai and underneath in English. I don't remember the exact words but it was saying something like 'please stand up now and pray'. I was like: 'really?'

All Thais stood up and prayed for some men showing on the screen. I tried to show respect and not laugh, which was really hard...

my further plans for my travels

I'm now in Phuket again, as you may know. After my stay here and lots of daytrips I will definitely go to Bangkok for a few days. Maybe I can do some more visitings in other places from there. It's kinda good that I don't know. I still have some spare time between that and my plan on going to Hong Kong. Taiwan is the next stop then, I met a friend on Fraser Island, who is from there. His name is Edan and is in my age and he invited me to stay at his place for the weekend. How great is that? I get to see real local life in Taiwan! That's amazing. After Taiwan I fly to Bali and spend a bit of time there, when I then finally go back to Singapore to explore the island with my father. Than I'm coming back!!! I can't wait to be home. 

Koh Phi Phi // Photos

Koh Phi Phi

You will either feel sorry for me our laugh at me, after I told you following story. 

This morning I packed my stuff together, called a cab and went to the ferrystation on the other end of the island for 21 sFr to go to Koh Phi Phi Island. This time I booked a 6 bed mixed dorm hostel, I thought after five days in a hotel I can cope with that. It was CHF 15 per night, I booked three. 

As soon as the ferry stopped at the ferrystation the crowd made its way to the land, where we had to pay CHF 0.60 taxes to enter the island. A ridiculous amount I reckon.  A nice guy on the boat asked me where I needed to go and explained me my way to the hostel. It was scorching hot and humid, I could literally feel the sunshine burning into my skin. Sweating I made my way to the other side of the island and walked with my heavy backpack along the beach for a while, until I found my hostel. Seriously, I was covered in sweeat once again. It was terrible walking on the sand in that heat with a backpack...

There was a blond european girl sitting at the reception who checked me in. Maybe Dutch. She showed me my room and everything when I suddenly started to feel very uncomfortable. I thought 'Linda, you can cope with that...' and tried to ignore the bad feelings. It was because the hoselte was terrible. I mean for the prize it was luxury, very very cheap and well equipped but listen:

There were everywhere cats and dogs without an owner, sand and dirt all over the place, stinky, hot, humid, no atmosphere, no place where you could just sit down and relax, in our room was no light, my mattress didn't earn the name mattress, on the walls was painted stuff from guests everywhere. Just disgusting and I just felt like crying. So I plucked up my courage and told myself that I don't have to do that. I took my  purse and started looking for a Hotel. Again I wandered around. When I finally found one I asked them if I could see the room first, just to make sure I feel confortable before paying. They let me see it first, but to get there was a 10 minute walk. After sweating a bit more I told them that I need to go and grab my stuff from the other hostel and bring it to my room. So I walked 10 minutes to the hostel and than 20 minutes back (as I was already halfway from the reception) to my new hotelroom. That stupid bit** at the reception didn't give me a single penny back! I'm sure she took the money herself. When I finally sat down in my room I wanted to text Robert from my last Hotel (K-Hotel Patong) and therefor I was in need of the WiFi password. So I walked again 20 minutes backwards and forwards to the reception. When I was ready for texting, I realised I couldn't open my safe with the purse and phone number from Robert anymore. Guess what I had to do? Walk to the reception again!!! I didn't even have a phone in my room... So annoying, seriously. In the end this nice Thai opened it for me with a simple key.

I didn't want to stay any longer on the island as it was disgusting everywhere, and tight, no space. It seemed to me they don't take care after their land at all. Rubbish thrown careless on the ground EVERYWHERE. It is disgusting!!! Is it so diffucult not to toss rubbish on the ground all the tome? I know they're poor and have other problems, but that is not difficult, come on!? I just wanted to leave. Maybe I had a bad day, too, thats why everything seemed so negative, though. I couldn't take heart. So today I went back to the K-Hotel in Phuket and they welcomed me heartfully, which was great.

Phuket, K-Hotel Patong // GoPro Photos

Phuket, Patong Beach // GoPro Photos