Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Islands Life

Hello my dear ones,

Wow. Can’t stop wowing.  It is my new condition when I travel J

Since my last post some time passed. After Dom’s dengue fever we head for islands, sea and sun. And we found more than that.

Koh Phi Phi was the island on the way to go where we were planning. And what can I tell. Yes, the nature around is stunning, you really feel like you are a part of some amazing postcard. Blue turquese water, magnificent cliffs, sun, exotic food and so on. But the island is destroyed by irresponsible horrible drunk tourists. I was disgust to see what tourism can do. Angry locals (well, if bunch of drunk foreigners would come to my hometown with no respect to anything I would be definitely the same), rubbish floating in the sea, plastic, buckets of drinks, people selling anything just to rip off white rich westerners, drunk lost eyes of everybody. Horrible. Since ‘The Beach’ movie was released we are all looking for that unspoiled undiscovered beach. Few more years and we will destroy everything. Sorry for my negativity.

Moving on we did discover something way more better. Koh Lanta it is called. An island which has something very special about itself. The island, which doesn’t let you leave. Good vibes, good people and easy happy life, aren’t we all looking for stuff like that? We stayed here nearly 3 weeks and we will stay for few more days. We met amazing people, I got scuba diver certificate, life is good. Christmas is here and me and Dom made sure to be in a place where you feel like home. And we do here.

I don’t really care that much about Christmas but I wish you good time wherever you are.

Oh and about the future. When you travel it is hard to care about such a thing but we will be heading to Malaysia very soon.

Till the next post,

I wish you beautiful days with your loved ones!


Ligita

Amazing bananas!!!

view from the hospital



















Beautiful Koh Lanta's sunsets


I now can drive a scooter, woohoo!!




The picture for Egle

Our place in Koh Lanta

haha, thai version of Croque Monsieur












Discovering the jungle

Our hitch hiked transport! not too bad

Happy hitch hikers!

Tonsai Beach




Christmas tree in thai style

some cool sand art














Friday, November 28, 2014

One Week of Pain and One Week of Pleasure

Hello, Sawadee-ka!

2 weeks and we are here in Thailand.

These 2 weeks were full and joy and some very unexpected events.

Bangkok was pretty cool and bear in mind that I kinda hate big cities. A lot of interesting smells, exotic food and my favourite transport in the world- tuc tucs! What a great feeling when driver don't really care about traffic, he just makes his own way everywhere and you get your hair flying in the wind form pretty speedy tuc tuc. We also went to some fancy place, called Sky Bar. A bar on top of the skyscraper, full of rich western people, expensive beer but a view to see all Bangkok from the top of the world, haha!

Next destination was Kao Yai National Park. After a bit of trekking in the jungle, seeing some gibbons and macaques we realized that guided tour is not really for us. I guess we saw more wildlife ourselves then ''trekking'' in the jungle with some guide. Though nature and waterfalls were stunning!

Lopburi town was next and there we saw a real Thai mentality, those smiles and generosity that we were missing so much everywhere we went! This town is inhabited not only by people but monkeys as well. They walk everywhere, like real citizens of the town. It's pretty cool. Something like Gibraltar hill but imagine all town full of these crazy creatures.

And then it was Ko Chang Noi. The small Ko Chang that not many tourists go, I guess we kind of found a lost paradise, still not really discovered by tourists. Empty beaches, no concrete buildings, chilled people, no electric and green green untouched jungles. However, we had to leave it pretty quickly because Dom got a dengue fever, which you can get it from mosquito!

And here our week of pain began. One local clinic and after fancy Bangkok Hospital in Phuket. Our holidays were transferred in the hospital. No complains, insurance paid for everything and we lived like kings, but who want to suffer and stay in pain while on your holidays in some exotic country. 

My conclusion is the same, mosquitos are bastards and they all are useless insects.

We are finally leaving today and continuing our hopefully adventurous but healthy holiday path!

Take care you all,

Ligita

View from Skybar

Khao Yai National Park

Khao Yai








Waterfall from the movie ''Beach''


Our fancy guesthouse place for £6 a night!


My first temple in Lopburi


Lopburi countryside

Dom found a friend!

Our cheap bungalow in Ko Chang Noi



Poor Dominic!




He is my friend as well!

Night train from Bangkok to Chumpon