Sunday, August 21, 2011
Where have you been??
Hello there!
It's been a long time that I caught up with you, which doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you....on the contrary. But sometimes I just didn't feel like writing...and sometimes there was just no internet. Now I'm here in Jakarta...sitting in a proper chair....in an airconditioned room....sleeping in a huge and lovely bed....being able to take hot showers and cook my own meals. No this is not a 5 star hotel I booked, this is better...I'm staying with a friend :-) thank you Jonas!
But what happened before.....
Finally after almost 6 weeks I left Haad Thien (Koh Phangan) and went together with Simeon (thank you my dearest for getting me out of there ;-)) to Angthong a national marine park.... There we spend some lovely days with kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, walking, building sandcastles, playing beach volleyball, watching monkeys and some more stuff.... A little monkeystory: these nice little creatures came out of the forest after the tourists left, spend most of the evening and night in a tree close to our tent, where they were eating leaves and slept. Early in the morning before breakfast they played before they dissapeared in the forest again.....so sweet!
Bye bye Angthong and back to Koh Phangan where we joined Ivana, a gorgeous Swiss friend, with her family on Bottlebeach. It was just so nice to be surrounded by all that good swiss energy. Which made it even harder when I had to say good bye and continued my way to Malaysia on my own. What helped to get over my lonely and empty feelings was the serving, (read washing dishes, chopping fruits and veggies) in a 10 day Vipassana retreat. It was my first time I was helping instead of doing the retreat myself. A whole different experience I can tell you. A mixture of dutch, spanish, indian, malaysian and chinese people made it really interesting.
I met Jasmine a dutchie in the Vipassana kitchen and together we went to the beach of Kuantan, Teluk Chempedak, to get some sun. Because of Ramandan Teluk Chempedak came first to life in the evening, so we had almost the whole white beach for ourselves. We both really liked it there and I can recommend you a nice place to stay.
After meditating and being lazy on the beach we wanted to stretch our legs and went to the Taman Negara for some jungletime....The first impression wasn't good at all. So touristic and though I really like dutch people...it was like a dutch enclave. Because of this and the fact that everything was just too good organised, Jasmine decided to leave after one day of trekking. I decided to stay one more day and did one trek on my own. This one was better...I went after the boardersigns which said: "You are not allowed to pass the sign without a guide"...therefore got almost eaten by leeches but none of them survived my lighter (SORRY!! normally I don't kill animals)...saw some beautiful birds and a group of monkeys...but most important hardly met someone one my way. Just one day of...me...myself...and I...
In Kuala Lumpur I met Jasmine again before I took my flight to Jakarta.....Kuala Lumpur has some nice things to visit and even with Ramandan you can still find yammy places to eat. Jakarta...sorry don't like...huge Shoppingcenters....a lot of traffic...but you know what...I don't have to stay here forever so I'm just going to enjoy my time here with Jonas...I went to the gym today which was just great so I will go tomorrow again...and on wednesday I can pick up my mum from the airport! Isn't that great?
with metta....
It's been a long time that I caught up with you, which doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you....on the contrary. But sometimes I just didn't feel like writing...and sometimes there was just no internet. Now I'm here in Jakarta...sitting in a proper chair....in an airconditioned room....sleeping in a huge and lovely bed....being able to take hot showers and cook my own meals. No this is not a 5 star hotel I booked, this is better...I'm staying with a friend :-) thank you Jonas!
But what happened before.....
Finally after almost 6 weeks I left Haad Thien (Koh Phangan) and went together with Simeon (thank you my dearest for getting me out of there ;-)) to Angthong a national marine park.... There we spend some lovely days with kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, walking, building sandcastles, playing beach volleyball, watching monkeys and some more stuff.... A little monkeystory: these nice little creatures came out of the forest after the tourists left, spend most of the evening and night in a tree close to our tent, where they were eating leaves and slept. Early in the morning before breakfast they played before they dissapeared in the forest again.....so sweet!
Bye bye Angthong and back to Koh Phangan where we joined Ivana, a gorgeous Swiss friend, with her family on Bottlebeach. It was just so nice to be surrounded by all that good swiss energy. Which made it even harder when I had to say good bye and continued my way to Malaysia on my own. What helped to get over my lonely and empty feelings was the serving, (read washing dishes, chopping fruits and veggies) in a 10 day Vipassana retreat. It was my first time I was helping instead of doing the retreat myself. A whole different experience I can tell you. A mixture of dutch, spanish, indian, malaysian and chinese people made it really interesting.
I met Jasmine a dutchie in the Vipassana kitchen and together we went to the beach of Kuantan, Teluk Chempedak, to get some sun. Because of Ramandan Teluk Chempedak came first to life in the evening, so we had almost the whole white beach for ourselves. We both really liked it there and I can recommend you a nice place to stay.
After meditating and being lazy on the beach we wanted to stretch our legs and went to the Taman Negara for some jungletime....The first impression wasn't good at all. So touristic and though I really like dutch people...it was like a dutch enclave. Because of this and the fact that everything was just too good organised, Jasmine decided to leave after one day of trekking. I decided to stay one more day and did one trek on my own. This one was better...I went after the boardersigns which said: "You are not allowed to pass the sign without a guide"...therefore got almost eaten by leeches but none of them survived my lighter (SORRY!! normally I don't kill animals)...saw some beautiful birds and a group of monkeys...but most important hardly met someone one my way. Just one day of...me...myself...and I...
In Kuala Lumpur I met Jasmine again before I took my flight to Jakarta.....Kuala Lumpur has some nice things to visit and even with Ramandan you can still find yammy places to eat. Jakarta...sorry don't like...huge Shoppingcenters....a lot of traffic...but you know what...I don't have to stay here forever so I'm just going to enjoy my time here with Jonas...I went to the gym today which was just great so I will go tomorrow again...and on wednesday I can pick up my mum from the airport! Isn't that great?
with metta....
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