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Dezember 2007
THAILAND
There's lots to discover in Thailand, but you really can't say its always a quiet experience. Apart from those terribly loud boats using outboard car-engines without exhaust pipe, there's an occasional hydroplane roaring past our anchoring spot. And one pilot even opend his door during take-off, so he could wave back at Antoine.
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But there are also quiet place that we do have to ourselves, at least during the right times - meaning early in the morning or late in the afternoon. Those are the times when tourists aren't being taken there in those tinitus-unfriendly boats.
These pictoresque rocks are riddled with phantastic caves and tunnels, some of which lead to a beautiful lagoon within the island. You can only navigate those tunnels with a canue (and during the right tide) and sometimes they're pitchblack or covered with stalactites and stalacmits and inhabited by bats.
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And then there's the impressive village Koh Pan Yi, built by sea-gypsies, and built entirely on stilts onto the water - includingthe sports stadion and a mosque (this bein one of the few muslim villages in Thailand). Originally the inhabitants made a living by raising fish, but today probably off the up to 3000 tourists that squeeze through the village every day.
Oh, and then there was Christmas. We spent the days with lots of other sailing boats in the Nai Harn Bay. There's a beautiful beach there where you can go for lovely swimms and find friends to play with, and a place Father Christmas also visits.
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And that was it again - at least for a while. After spending New Years in a beautiful bay in West Phuket Nela & Antoine startet their trip back to Slovenia on the 1st of January, and, oh well, Tom und Fabian will set sail for the Red Sea on January 2.
But more about that in the beginning of February.
See you then, take care!
Tom, Nela & Antoine and Fabian
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