February 15, 2007

Australien - Noosa

Australien - Noosa, originally uploaded by henrik engdahl.

I spent a couple of days in lovely Noosa. I went here with my mate Peter that I met at the diving course in Cairnes. I really loved Noosa and can recommend this place to all of you. A small little realxed village perfect for surfing and relaxing. Did my first surfing ever down here, it was hard but a lot of fun. Manage to stand up on the board after 2 hours training. But think I have to practise a couple of 1000 hours more if I want to be a surfer…hard work out.

I also went out for a Koala spotting with Petra that I met at the YHA Lodge Hostel. But we was really disapointed after almost three hour walk in the national park without spotting any Koala bear. But I think that doesnt matter, I was such a nice walk anyway, think I’ll have to go to the zoo to see the koalas.

I really recommend Noosa to all travelers in Australia, make sure to book room in advanced at YHA Halse Lodge for the best visit.

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February 10, 2007

Australia - Lost in the mail!?

Leaving Cairns at 5:30 in the morning I’t dawned on me that my passport, tickets and camera were safely locked away in the hostel safe. The nightmanager had no success in retreiving it either. I left my details with the nightmanager and then left for Frasier Island*. On location I called the hostel and arranged for my things to be sent to my new hostel. 4 days later I’m sitting here in Hervey Bay (middle of nowhere) and stuck over the weekend waiting for my stuff to arrive. Lesson learned, don’t ever leave your passport behind! So everyone pray that It arrives on monday because I can’t stand another day here.

Luckily I have a korean in my room who is as bored as I am and who I convince to get drunk with me every night (asians get drunk really fast) to my endless amusement.

* Oh yea Frasier Island, saw some dingos, bathed in some lakes…

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Australia - Noosa

Hi, long time with no writing to the blog. I’ve been really buzy the last weeks with a lot of stuff going on. When I arrived to Cairnes I signed up for a five day long dive course to get the diving certificate… Thats what wicked, really cool do dive out in the great barrier reef with turtles, manta rays, sharks and nemo fishes … More aabout the diving thing later, that deserves an own post. Its really hot here in Austalia so I dont bother to spend that much time infront of the computer…I prefer the beaches that kind of stuff .

Im now in Noosa, this is a really nice and relax little town in Queensland. I arrived here yesterday, and now I have checked in at a lovely hostel that seems to be very nice and friendly. Im gonna stay here a couple of days and try to learn surfing before I heading down to Byron bay.

But now its time to zip on a cold mango magic smoothie and play some guitar at the terasse.

See you soon.
Hanky

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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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