tarel-in-thailand

17.01. to January 29th: With the speedboat we reached Koh Phayam in 40 minutes - our last stop on our 7-week trip. We also ended our trip there 11 years ago. Back then there was...

January 13th to 17th: Prachuap Khiri Khan - we had difficulty remembering this place name... Here we were (almost) at the narrowest point in Thailand on the Gulf Coast (towards...

January 11th to 13th: Our journey from the north of Thailand to the narrowest point in the country far in the south to Prachuap Khiri Khan was a train journey experience. We...

08.01.: Taking a cooking class when you are in Bangkok or Chiang Mai is one of the "must do's". We had a lot of fun doing it 11 years ago and cooked one or two things at home....

07.01.: Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand and is located in the mountainous north of Thailand. We already spent a week here in 2013. A lot has changed since...

January 3rd: Today is another travel day. However, we made it out of bed early again to enjoy the dawn in the temple complex again. We ran into a dog who probably wanted to...

December 30th/31st: After almost 5 hours in the ice-cold air-conditioned train heading north and another hour in the taxi, we reached Sukhothai, which is considered the first...

December 26th: We took the longtail boat from Koh Libong to the mainland - with a short interruption because as we left the harbor entrance, the engine suddenly broke down and...

Monday, December 25th: To reassure you: It rained here too on Christmas! Christmas Eve, half the night was like a torrent and even today there were a few showers - sometimes the...

Friday, December 22nd: The bus no longer runs, but is there as a decoration... Elmar got from A to B on the Fiji Islands with something like that over 30 years ago... Koh Libong...

Tuesday, December 19th: The days here flow into one another, we have acclimatized and go swimming twice a day, adapting to the tides - so at the moment coffee is the first...

Saturday, December 16th: Our hotel location is marked with a star on the overview map. Today we rented a moped and headed to the other end of the island. There is actually only...

Friday, December 15th: Longtail boats are typical for Thailand and are used for everything, especially as ferries or fishing boats. Powered by a regular car or truck engine that...

Thursday: It is very warm, up to 32 degrees during the day and 26 degrees at night. Our bodies have to get used to it first. The first night there was no draft, I sweated a lot,...

Wednesday: Set the alarm again because we didn't want to miss our ferry.... The tranquil boat ride I was expecting turned out to be an hour-long ride on a speedboat with 750...

Monday/Tuesday: Our plane took off punctually at around 9 p.m. towards Doha/Qatar. We stayed there for four hours, most of which Elmar spent sleeping. We then continued for 6...

...can he experience something... At least the taxi was on time, but the train was 80 minutes late, so we took another train towards Interlaken via Frankfurt. Sat in the dining...

3 weeks to go... the first packing piles are formed, documents are prepared and of course current travel guides are obtained. We just don't care about the weather here in...