A morning in Pai

Yesterday evening announced a cold night! After a hot day the temperature steadily dropped to 15 º C. And at night it got even colder.  For this we were not prepared! Thus more eagerly we went for a morning walk around our hotel. A beautifu cloudless day! Dry air and slowly growing temperatutre. Ve...

First steps in Pai

Over  the mountains, along a zig-zag road, by minibus for 3 hours from Chiang Mai to Pai. Spanish co-passengers  got sick a little bit, because the road  was not right for the ear labirynth ... Pai is almost a Mecca for backpackers judging by the number of young people in town. We need to find out...

Chiang Mai reviseted

We had already visited Chiang Mai at the beginning of January 2011. Today there will be snapshots of the day:  beginning with lunch, through visiting the most important temples, to watching a folk group from the north of Thailand. Organizing performances of folk groups from the far north of Thaila...

To the north of Thailand

Just a short note to let you know that we are still alive and OK. We have a day to kill i Bangkok and tonight we set off forChaing Mai which is situated at the southern slice of the Himalayan mountain range. Expect next entry in two days' time.... Before leaving Bangkok, despite our attempts to...

On the way to Bangkok

Traditionally, the first stage of the trip was at Szczecin local airport Berlin - Tegel. As usual  it was  crowded mostly with passengers flying within  Germany .  It is high time  for the airport Berlin - Brandenburg were open .  The construction of the airport resembles that of Polish motorways,...

Asiatique

Asiatique is a large outdoors shopping centre in form of a theme park. Situated on the river Chao Phraya, in place of the old transhipment port of, formerly managed by the Chinese. This is a middle class shopping centre, but you have fun there at any time of the day, if the weather allows. We happ...

Bangkok first

We got to Bangkok via Helsinki with Finnair. Traditionally, here we begin our travel in Southeast Asia. We get organized here and get rid of the jet-lag. Today we are going to the ancient capital of the kingdom of Thailand - Ayuttaya. The Kingdom existed in the years 1330-1767 . The most interest...

15. The Koh Larn Island - the end of holidays

At the end of our  holidays a  trip to the island of Koh Larn. Unfortunately, we were not the only tourists there. Actutally, there were hundreds of people - on  a small island and the beaches  could hardly accommodate everybody who arrived there. It also was  a new experience for us. ...