Day something – Job offer in Ko Phi Phi

I got a job offer to work in this resort during 2011… should I accept?

Day something…

I dont know anymore.. I just went to the island where the movie “the beach” was recorded… Just the most beautiful beach that I have ever been… and after I came back to a warm sunny day in a fantastic beach in Thailand… nothing else.  I am lazy to post the photos… I eventually will

Day 41 – Ko Phi Phi the end is here

my new workspace

I think this blog will become really boring to the readers and great to me. I arrived at the paradise.  I got the ferry boat with all kind of tourists, old men from Italy, Germany and Spain with their prostitutes, some of them with more than one, families with wife and red peppers sunburnt kids, hippies from 70’s, young ladies showing plastic boobs, athletes using cocaine on the deck and throwing beers’ cans on the sea, young Indians promoting a war with the ferry beside us, using beers’ can as ammo. It was far from anything that I was expecting. After this happy trip, I was rescued by the taxi boat on the deck which brought me here.. a isolated resort in the desert part of the Island… nothing else can happen. Boring for you, great for me…

next door bro!!! Leo

Cambodian Tatoo

Day 40 – Amazing racing II

It is the last part of the trip, I mean the last part which requires any planning or booking, or shuttle. I had to leave Phnom Phen at 5pm, and the goal was to get in Phuket at midnight. Asiaair line has lately been erratic, and I cant trust on their schedule anymore. In my first experience in Thai immigration I spent more than 2 hours in lines and others proceeds. In this time my luck again has helped me. I spent less than 5 minutes, and in 20 minutes and a good conversation with the check in of the Asiair I could get the first taking off to Phuket. Summarizing I was in Phuket at 9.40pm when I tasted the first thai scamming. I got the bargain van from the airport to the town. After 5 minutes the van stopped at the travel agency and all passengers had to get off the van and talk to a agent who was there just to help. The agent tried to convince me that I had to book a hotel in town and after in Phuket. I said that I didn’t want I just one a lift to the town. After 15 minutes of a terrible and stupid conversation the agent threw the bus ticket on the floor. I was really calm and patient I just repeated uncountable times that I didn’t want to book any hotel, I just want to go to town. After 10 minutes I pretty much just repeat the sentence: I am sorry I think you don’t understand me. I just want go to the town. I can help myself. The agent got mad and I was smiling still. I got the ticket back from the floor and calmly said to the other agent – I am sorry I don’t want and I wont book a hotel, Can I go back to the van? She said yes, and everybody else followed me. When I got back to the van a Canadian guy said: Hey man thank you, you made it clear to everybody. Obviously we arrived at the town and as soon as we left the van, a traveller said that there was good guest house one block away free and cheap. Indeed, midnight I was on a great bed.

Day 39.1 – Flight Phuket – Bangkok canceled.

So… My options – get back from Phuket and island on January 5th and spend 5 days in Bangkok, or Flight back to Bangkok on january and get 2 days of free hotel in Phuket… easy to choose. hahahah

Day 39 – Phnom Phen Airport, and my new year’s resolutions

I am in the Phnom Phen’s Airport, free Internet… Flight delayed.. so.. my list.

1 – To be volunteer in a nursing house, or similar

2 – To plant at least 1000 trees

3 – To put 3 banners, in different dates, in front of the Chinese embassy written: FREE TIBET – we know what are you doing there.

3.1 – Distribute 1000 flyers with information about China in Tibet

4 – Be drunk with Dash

5 – Don’t eat meat.

6 – To learn the basic skills of another language (French or Italian)

7 – To make at least 3 good actions a day

8 – Meditation course

9 – Read 10 books not related with my theses.

10 – Play a new sport

11 – Travel to abroad

12 – Don’t loose my temper

13 – Don’t get in panic

14 – Donate blood

15 – Donate at least 50% of my clothes

16 – Don’t watch so much porn

17 – Don’t exceeded Stafford Internet limit

18 – Don’t eat fish at home

19 – Buy as much as possible organic products

20 – Steal 10 Dash’s kisses

21 – To say I love you to someone

22 – Swimming 2 times a week (at least)

22.1 – Swimming 2.5km in less than an hour.

23 – Finish 4 chapters of my theses

24 – Join an International contest with Emilio

25 – To listen more than speak

26 – Just buy the strictly necessary

27 – Go to the botanic garden at least twice a week

28 – Find a place to grow some flowers

28.1 – Find a place to grow some spices

29 – learn at least 10 whole songs in my guitar

30 – the hardest one: make people happy, as many as I can.

If I can reach 29 out of 30, I will be ok.

 

Day 38 – The second real problem…. been hit by a motorcycle.

Nothing serious, but annoying. After 8 hours inside a bus. In a fuckin hot day, with a terrible air condicioning, I have finally arrived in Phnom Phen. My first providence was to buy some water. Well I was inside a simple store, when a motorcycle somehow got in the store, hitting me and another guy. Nothing really serious happened, but I got a cut in my left leg, and now I realised that I got the right side of back really swollen. To my cut I went to a pharmacy and I bought a cream… to my back I saw 10 minutes ago…I will be fine.

Day 37 – The first real problem.

I cant explain but nothing worked today. My travel card, my credit cards…and I have no cash anymore. So after a long chat by phone whit visa, they told me that there wasnt conection between Cambodia and USA… so I will leave the next 72hours with just U$12,00. Let’s see. So due to this problem, I was just walking around the city… nothing else… tomorrow Phnom Phen.

Day 36 – resting under the most beautiful tree.

I think it is the first day during this trip that I have just gotten some rest. I got my bike and I went to the forest beside the lake I laid under the most beautiful tree…I saw the temples… and I got back home…

I also had to share the place with some monkeys.

 

Day 34 and 35 – the amazing race

I got up last morning (I am writing one day later) with everything packed. I had the hope to take a shower before to leave but there was no hot water and yesterday was the coldest day since I got in Kathmandu. My last day in Nepal was without a good shower.. I got the Taxi to the airport totally heartbroken. This part of the trip was just perfect, and I was wondering if the rest of trip would be the same. I have arrived in the airport 2 hours before the flight. The Kathmandu airport is very simple however with the best security already seen. You have to pass through 3 x-rays, and 2 bag inspections. There are just 4 gates, all flights departure from those gates, making the place naturally confused and crowed. Everything went fine although one hour delay. The race started in Bangkok. I had three missions in Bangkok before to go to Cambodia.  The first one was re-packing my stuffs now shifting to the summer mode. The second thing was to find a luggage store and the last one would be get the bust to Poipet on the Cambodia’s border to cross it at the first time at morning. The first and second missions were pretty easy. The third one….

According to the information bureau there will bus to Poipet all night. So I got a taxi to the bus station… 42km away. I got there around 10.30pm, and I got the right information, the last bus had left at 9pm. The next one, would leave at 5am. So I would spend my first night in Thailand sleeping on the floor. It wasn’t so bad in fact. If I took the bus at 5.am, around 10am I would be on the border and I would be in Siam Reap, already in Cambodia territory around 6pm. It was the original plan. After 20m on the floor a taxi driver approached me.  He has offered to go to Pouipet for Bth400. The price was cheaper than the Bus ticket. After the email from Marco, and after reading the Lonely Planet I didn’t accept. It was really strange and cheap. After 10 more minutes to military guys got a sit beside me, and once again the driver has offered his service. The 2 militaries guys have accept the offered and one of those one explained me that the driver had to go to Poipet for a tour he was basically looking for people to fill the taxi, and pay the fuel. So this time I accepted. Around 1am I was on the border and ask the driver to drive me to a hotel. Firstly he show me the border, and after he looked for a hotel. Some of them were closed, but we find one 500m away from the border. I had a deal with the owner a cheaper rate because I would leave at very early morning. I paid Bth200 and I would have to leave at 6am.

I couldn’t slept immediately, the Motel has a great variety of pornos, and I had to check them out before I sleep. At 6am the owner knocked my door. He gave 10 more minutes it was enough to take my shower.

I was on the line to cross the border 6.50am. it couldn’t be better.  At 7.16am I had everything solved at the immigration and I was at Cambodia side. The Cambodian government provides a free shuttle from the Border to the Bus Station. When I was waiting for the bus I met to Finish guys who were also waiting for the shuttle. After a quick chat we agreed in share a taxi to Siam Reap. Around 8am we were inside the taxi and before 10am we were in hostel in Siam Reap. I was so happy and excited that I rented a bike straight way. I have gone to all temples and took great photos. When I’ve got back I went out whit the Finish guys for a dinner.

Everything was so perfect, impossible to believe. I have been the luckiest guy in the world.

About the temple? Nothing to say… just see the photos

it was my hotel on the boarder

sunrise going to the immigration