January 30, 2007

Cape Tribulation

After our arrival to Cairns Hanky decided to go and get a diving certification. I decided to go with this German guy we met to Cape Tribulation just North of Cairns. Cape is basicly rainforest, the oldest unchanged rainforest in the world actually. Stefan my German friend is a real trekking lover, so we decided to climb one of the Mountains here, Mount Sorrow. James Cook named alot of the places around here with glooming names because of his unfortunes in it.

Mount Sorrow was amazing, walking through the rainforest is quite sweaty and you should bring at least 3-4 liters of water with you, and lot’s of bug repellent. Leeches where commen as we soon experienced, they where quite small though.

The beaches are amazing, unfortunetly you can’t swim anywhere in the North Part of australia because of the manatees. If you get stinged it hurts like hell and you can die if there is to many of them, I tried the water though and It was really hot, maybe body temperature.

If you go to Queensland you should really visit the Cape.

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January 23, 2007

Shop til you drop!

So now we have left Kuala Lumpur behind and entered the well garded fortress of Singapore. Much like KL this city is a huge shopping mall. Except here everything is quite expensive and very clean, drugs carry the death penalty and littering is punished with a $500 fine. It feels like a ghost town in some respects caught in the middle of east and west. Fortunately we won’t be staying here to long. We will upload some pictures soon with the time square shopping mall in KL, it had an amusement park INSIDE the mall with several rides including a big rollercoaster which was under repair when we were there… Fortunetly.

10 levels of shopping and at level 10 an imax teather. Is it heaven or hell? Not really sure but it was air-conditioned… Is heaven air-conditioned?

At some point Asia will be a huge air-conditioned hive, with everyone else dying of the global warming induced heat outside. I am completely convinced…

PS. Of the books previously mentioned I would really recommend Myternas historia short but brilliant.

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January 20, 2007

Kulan (Kuala Lumpur)

Hello mates! 2 days ago we left thailand and now we are in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpor. I dont know what to say about the city, I dont know if I like it or not. Its raining everday after 5 a clock and it keeps on raining for about 3 hours…

We stay at a Hostel called Wheelers or something like that, its a ok place, even if its big rats runing around, I havent seen them, but Isak have…

I goes rumors about me at in the hostel that Im a good magican, hehe. I did some tricks last night up in the bar and the people almost start to freak out, so I guess it wasnt that bad

Tonight we are going out to a club called Zouk and will try to find some electro dance floor to get crazy on…

humba humba, dont have anything more to tell you about now, more than I shall go back to the roof top and keep on drinking Tiger beers… everyday is like friday, hoho.

Pussen och kramen!
Hanky

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January 17, 2007

Ko Lanta - Tarzan!

Ko Lanta, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

Yesterday we rent motobikes and drive around this Island. We found a sing that led to a waterfall. But it was kind of tricky to get there. We have to walk through the water, over rocks and trees, fighting with elephants and geckos . The picture above shows when I starring into the elephants eyes, ready to kick his as. It was a good, but hard fight, and I finnaly get him on his back and he was defeted, phu!

/Tarzan

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Thailand in short

So our stay in Thailand draws to a close. Tomorrow we take the bus to Malaysia and kuala lumpor. Thailand has been great, you could call it paradise but it’s like the perfect beach with a Coke machine in the middle of it all. It’s disturbing to see what we in the west represent for most thai people. Essentielly we go here to be lazy and to fuck prostitutes, the normal greating phrase in bangkok is “Hello, where you from, you want girls, boom, boom”. If you can ignore all that it’s great.

I think I liked it the most when we got a chance to meet some “real” thai people in bangkok, they where just students not interested in us for money.

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January 15, 2007

Ko Lanta - Coconut bar

Ko Lanta - Coconut bar, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

A lazy day in the hamock cant be wrong

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Daytrip - Kajaking

Krabi, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

After 10 days of relaxing and just haning around we needed to do some activites. We went out kajaking in the jungle and fed the monekys, then finnished the day with a swim in the national park.

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Krabi - Raily Beach

Krabi - Raily Beach, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

I have to dedicate a post about this Italian guy called Simone that we met in Au Nang where we stayed tree nights. Simone is a typical, macho, Italian guy I guess… and he is quite funny… but the funniest thing with him it that he seems go get in a lot of trouble.
Simone was kicked out of Australia cause he didnt have a proper visa, the police came to his a partment when he had a shower and they told him that he hade go get out of the country. So he went to Bangkok and then to Au Nang where we met him at our resort and he told us his stories about he was fooled around by the taxi drives in bangkok…and I couldnt stop laughing when he told me about all the suites he bought at the suite store that the taxi drives drived him to to get free gas… You guys in sweden that have met Andres Maldonano, this is exacly that kind of guy.

Last night before we leave Krabi we went out to have some drinks with Simone at Luna bar. Bought he a bucket, and I think that he gett pissed and ended up with some finnish girl this night, instead of a lady-boy, that he was hanging out with 2 days before

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January 12, 2007

New guitar

The only think I have missed since I left Sweden is my guitar. So yesterday I went to a guitar store and bought my self a new guitar, and now when I got al the time in the word and nothing that stress me I can finally start to try to writing some songs. I have almost writer the lyrics for four new songs and now I will start with the music aswell. Rellay nice! So Herman, get ready, when Im coming home we’ll have to start a band!

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January 10, 2007

Todays book tips: The dirt

Ko Samui - Lamai, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

I have finnished my first book at this trip. Got this lovley book by my brother in christmas present, and after that I couldnt stop reading it. I can really recommend this book to all of you rockers out there. A brilliant book about the most notorius rockband, Motley Crue. I havent listen to the Motley that much, just few song like dr feelgood… but after this I have to get their reckords, think these guys was really insane, but cool . Nikky Sixx really inspires me, haha, so now I got a new role model to live after, and crash some parties, haha!! Read it!

Cheers!

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