Friday, January 3, 2014

Diving and jungle fun

We left the north and got more to the southeast of Thailand to spent some time at the beach and I wanted to go diving.
For doing that we got to Koh Chang, not too far away from the Cambodian border.
The weather was already great when we got closer and on the ferry to the island we already enjoyed a sunbath.
At the island we took one of those group taxis looking like a pickup to get to the lonely beach, which was not really lonely. Surprisingly we found a few metres away from the spot we got off the taxi we a great place to stray at, the staff was very nice and the rooms very cheap. Well nit everything was perfect, it was not that silent around there, because the guesthouse was in the centre of the walking street, but we did not get here to sleep all the time. More to do some activities, diving and to enjoy some good music. What made that place even more attractive, every evening they have live music and not only this annoying house music you hear at beach parties.
First thing we were this time doing was not going to the beach, because I wanted to get a good company offering dives around the island. After that we went to the beach, jumping into the water and seeing a nice sunset.
We were having a good time and as a joke I told Bernd that I could catch the sun, he did not belief me so I proofed it to him.
The next day I went for diving, again with some teaching, the first diving spot was at a ship wreck and with the current certificate I was not allowed to go that deep, so the idea of only making fun dives changed to make also an adventure dive and getting another certificate.
Later again I met Bernd at the beach, where he found a new friend. His friend was looking like a snow man but actuality it was a sandman.
The evening we spent at our guesthouse and when the live gig was over we checked out the beach bars, as expected we only got to hear house music, what did not satisfy us. So we did not stay too long there.
At the next day we wanted to go into the jungle, not tracking this time. On the way we stopped at a nice beach, with some trees growing and staying in the sea. It did not look like they have been on the ground
Around in this area we found a sign scaring Bernd to death. He has for sure seen to many of those apocalypse movies with monkeys spreading a poison or virus.
It took me a while to calm him down and another time when saw some monkeys jumping around in the trees.
Luckily there were no monkeys around the treetop climbing park we were heading to. And he needed all his concentration for the climbing so he won't see the monkeys around us.

At the end of our trip to Koh Chang we saw a very great bar looking like a tree house, not on top of the tree but still very nice.

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