Waiting in the rain

Arriving at 4 am turns out the tour guide (mea culpa) didn’t realise what that ment. After a very cosy 13 hour train ride we arrived before everybody in Chang Mai woke up. So we did hang out forもっと詳しく
Trolls sited in Chiang Mai

After a hot shower we hit the streets of Chiang Mai in our new outfits. In search of breackfast and an extra strong thai massage.
Tailor time

And than anne max chose fabrics and got measured to get a tailor made suit made. Gorgeous fabrics really nice tailer… troll becomes man…
Streetlife, and yes rainseason

Sunrise Doi Inthanon

Like night owls we were picked up at 4 to go to Do Ithanon, the highest mountain of thailand to see the sunrise. Eehm well we saw it gettng light but with humidity of 99,9 and nonstop downpoor we hadもっと詳しく
Cloud forest Doi Inthanon

It is called cloud forest because it is always in the clouds and for thai context very cold. Today it was 13* in winter it can go down to 0. It is all year round green
Si lana national park

From cloud forest on one side of chiang mai province to rainforest on the other side in Si Fountain National park
Sticky waterfall

Most bizarre waterfall: Bua thong Waterfall. the water contains so much calcium that it shaped the rocks in cartoonesk formations and made them very sticky. So after enormous amounts of water from theもっと詳しく
Rest?!day

Well we were planning on taking it easy today, but after a late and rich breakfast we started roaming the streets, visiting tempels, organising some necessary logistics, going for the tailor made suitもっと詳しく
Hot and spicy

instead of going out for dinner we prepared 13 different thai dishes this evening, made 4 different curry pastes from scratch and learned some new stuff about thai spices and cooking. And we ate itもっと詳しく
Elephant rescue park

Oh my this is …. Humbling amazing nurturing grounding and just soooo nice to be among elephants.
https://www.saveelephant.org
Blissfull

Swimming elephants

Elephant rescue

They have 127 rescue elephants here. Some were held as circus animals forced to do things by hurting their extremely sensitive ears, top of their head and cheeks, some were used to entertain touristsもっと詳しく
It is life not work

Every single elephant has his own caretaker that is with the elephant all day long. He feeds and takes care of his elephant and walks with it, swims with it etc. At the end of the day they gather allもっと詳しく
Helping out a little

Stepping out of our room this morning. Elephants walked along… 3 feet in front of us. that is a very special way to wake up. This morning we went of the sanctuary site and into the jungle a littleもっと詳しく
Getting up close and intimate

Leaving the north

How great it was to be in the jungle and live with the elephants for two days. May sound weird to some but it was a spiritual and hart moving experience. Now we are back in the city of chiang mai withもっと詳しく
Surat Thani

Niet geheel volgens plan maar ook niet onvrijwillig zijn we gestrand in Surat Thani. De boot naar Koh Tao was vol en nu verkennen wij deze moderne versie van een Thaise stad. Voor t eerst echt zon.もっと詳しく
Move it!

Zon gaat onder, t koelt af maar een heerlijke 28 graden en koh Samui komt in beweging
Aanstekelijk

Move it 2

Leaving the main land on this …

Dipping into diving

First day of the open water scuba course we spend most of the day doing all kinds of exercises in a pool. We now know (again) what to do when we loose our mask or get water in it, what to do when weもっと詳しく
First day Koh Tao

Arriving yesterday was a bit of a shock. After hours shaking in the very hot boat we arrived on the very hot island and … we were not alone. It was a bit overwhelming the mix of reggae hippies thaiもっと詳しく