Koh Tao.. Christmas!

Some updates from the sunny and nice Koh Tao..

Christmas on the Beach: Yesterday it was christmas, there where hard to believe it but it was a little sense of it in the air... People where wearing the red top hat as usual, so i feeling that it was christmas where there but... different!

Woke up really early in the morning, have started a Open water diving course which means that i will get a diving license. So the alarm went of 6 in the morning and it was time to try and find some breakfeast, there where impossible to find some rice pudding in 7-eleven which was the only place that was open. After this we meet up with our diving instructor and started to collect the gear we needed for the day, packed the stuff up in a boat and went away..

We did two open water dives, we had started the course the day before so we had allready made the shallow water training that includes some exercises that are good to do before you go into deeper water. I have made some fun dives before so i felt comfortable, and the dives where sooo FUN.

After the diving we had a small academic which means we had answered on some homework questions and we went through them with our instructor, after this we watched a diving information movie and then we where free for the rest of the day.

So on the schedule where to try and find some food and then just enjoy the rest of the night. We where told that it was gonna be christmas party on the beach so to join that was what we did. Had a fun night but it was a strange way of celebrating christmas on...

Some pics from Koh Tao so far... More is comin

Christmas on the beach

Yepp, first time ever.. Feels kind of weird that it is christmas tmw.. But im kind of happy to be on the nice and calm island Koh Tao in thailand. We arrived reaaally early this morning, after a bus trip on lets se.. first 4 hours from Vangvieng to Vientiane in Laos, then a 12 hours bustrip from Vientiane to Bangkok Thailand, wait for some hours then a new bustrip across the whole thailand to Chumpton on around 7 hours...

Waited 6 hours in Chumpton for the night ferry over to koh tao, the ferry ride took 6 hours and we arrived here 5 in the morning, and with no accommondation arranged we had to wait until 8 when the most of the places opened...

But im happy, spend around 30 - 35 euro on the ride all the way from Laos to Koh Tao Thailand.. It is cheap travelling with the local buses, and actually the local buses in thailand are like paradise comparing to the buses in Laos and Cambodja..

Today there where no time for rest, I so badly have wanted to have a diving license for such a long time that when I now are in divers paradise decided even though i barely afford it to get one, so half this day had been some teory.. the rest of the day have been shallow water training, basic stuff that i allready tried but good practise. Tmw will be the first two dives of the total for included in the courses so we have to get up early and get away with the boat..

I mean im in Koh tao, and tao means turtle so might see some of those around the island who knows..

So reletives, I might wish i get some money in christhmas present so i dont have to go home earlier then expected.. :D

Pictures will come, promise!

In KL again

Yeah yeah i know.. have been trying to update this several times but the internet connection is so sloooooooow.. Not able to upload pictures at all..

Well have a bunch of them and as soon as i find a fast internet connection i put them up..

Bali where sooo damn great, i really miss it and it is only hours since i left it.. had alot of fun and will put up some of the great times in bali asap..

But until then, our next plan is to get to cambodja.. be there for a couple of days and then try to reach to Laos.. will see how that goes!

Well, not saying that im a good surfer but managed to surf a 6.6 board in the end, and thats kind of difficult but way much more fun then the easy longboards! I defenitily gonna surf more if i get the chance, heard that it is good surfin in Phillipines..

Now I have to try to get some sleep, the flight goes of in a couple of hours and have not been sleeping that much lately..

Bali Baby Bali...

So im in bali, and the weather so far has been so great.. I have been to the beach for two days of surf. The first day was ok, I have never surfed before so some rookie mistakes of courses but after a while i started to get a grip of it. Today has been way much better, and the waves where so much better today so the surfing has been soo good. Probably gonna have a soar in my arms tomorrow but it is worth it.

This will be a short update, upload some pictures of how I live, as is by far the most cheapest ever. It cost me 70.000 Rp and that is like 45kr, and that is included with the breakfeast...

So far cheap and good weather, are gonna take some more pictures of the place later... Tmw i think i let my arms rest and go for other adventures!!!

This one gives me only cold water, so short showers...