been silent since forever - we are getting lazy since its coming to an end... only 13 days left of our adventure, cannot believe it's been nearly six months already!
after the teacher training in rishikesh we were pretty exhausted and needed a break from everything. we had to leave india within the 5th of june, since our visa expired at
this time... so we spend hours at the net trying to figure out our next destination - which could be everywhere! sri lanka was a favorite, along with zanzibar, israel and jordan. but after some research and after checking our bank accounts, we figured we need to go somewhere cheap and convinent SINCE we have to return to india to get the flight home. puhh.. long sentence there. so we decided that good old bangkok would be worth visiting again, the embassy in easy and well everything is easy in thailand. so we found some cheap tickets from delhi and off we went. delhi was by the way a great city that both of us really liked. wide streets, lots of space, green areas, cool buildings, great shopping!, good food and nice people. so this was good to be in a big city after small and spaced out rishikesh.... and we were spaced ut also so we needed a reality check i guess!.
so now we have already spend some days in bangkok only to find out that we have to wait seven days for our visa into india again. we decided to go straight to hatyai and the tiny island of ko lipe in the very south and then perhaps go to malaysia after this.. we managed halfway, we have now returned to the mainland after 5 perfect days in ko lipe. the island is really small, and inhabited by lots of locals living off fishing. we were the only tourists on the whole island, apart from one french guy and a italian dude. so we pretty much had the island to ourselves! we found a nice little hut at mountain resort, on a hill above the beach. we had the most fantastic views from here, waking up to the turquise water and the pearly white sand - doing some yoga sessions on the balcony before going out to explore the island. it was raining quite a lot when we were there, so our days consisted mostly of yoga practice, eating whatever was available in one of the two restaurants open for business, walking in the jungle packed with mangroves and flowers in beautiful colors, walking on the beach, swimming in the rain and reading the books.. and most of all, having time to focus on eachtoher again! rishikesh was mainly all about the training and the course, so we barely had time to ourselves there. so this was really great!
at the moment, we are waiting for the bus to take us to krabi - we are meeting up with ingvild there - she has been in malaysia working on the new season of '......' take a guess... so we are planning on spending some social days in railey beach before we cruise back to bangkok on the 17th. the sale is on in the city, so we are going to ditch our dirty, worn out outfits from six months of travelling in favour of the latest thai fashion! can't wait to put on some clean, fresh and nice clothes again! mrs. scruffy... he he he.
the net is slow for uploading pics and stuff but we have managed to put out episode 8 of the masala trek, and a few pics from rishikesh at the link to the left.
hope you're all well - and we'll see you all soon!
