Thailand

First stop in Thailand was -ofcourse- Bangkok!

My city-pictures always turn out more dark than it truly was at the time. Probably global dimming at work.
Bangkok can be described as friendly chaos! It has atmosphere to it!

The main attraction here is the royal temple. An amazing place!
It is like stepping into a fairy tale.

Next to the royal temple there is also a temple with a giant golden Buddha:

Some crappy but nice houses amongst the skyscrapers!

Next I went to a national park at the coast: They pitched up a lovely tent at the beach for me! I was the only one there.

Main attraction here was a cave with partly collapsed roof.

It looks uninviting, but at the time it was very warm. The camera doesn't capture the colors very well.
Only sandflies started to itch if you lingered too long

This horrible beast attacked my T-shirt at night!

Next national park was An Thong: a group of beautiful islands sticking up from the ocean.

All tourists come as part of a tour and go for the viewpoint

They scramble up there in the burning sun. I went there in the early morning and had the panorama all to myself.
It is really recommendable to do it this way: Just buy a boat-ticket at the harbour on Ko Samui. Do not join a tour.

The main island also has a cave that all tourists mis out on because they don't have time to visit it.
I explored it alone and got scared shitless by bats flying out suddenly.

It was really quite good! I exhausted myself there, exploring every little dark corner.

A petrified glittery waterfall

The ghost of my soul! (yeah, whatever...)

Looking down on all stressing tourists who had to hurry back to the boat.
I just let the staff at the headquarters pitch up a lovely tent for me, as in the previous park.

The headquarters! No, it's not on fire! A dude is walking around with a huge insectrepellent-gun
(you have to hold it Rambo-style)

On the way back we (meaning me and the tourgroup) visited an inland lake on an island:
A true touristjam occured here. Horrible! Part of the movie "The beach" was recorded here or something. Whatever...

This is a picture of Ko Pha Ngan: a very touristic island that is famous for its montly fullmoon party: A huge beachparty.
Ofcourse I had to visit this legendary party. Here I met a very cute Thai girl named Pair.

With her I went to an other island called Ko Tao. This island turned out to be much more authentic and beautiful.

If you sat down in the water at a certain spot, schools of fish came swimming around you!
The photo doesn't show this very well, but it does show how cute Pair is!

Looking at the fish! (no we were not imagining stuff)

The lookout from a neighbouring smaller island.

We also went to the city of Nakhon Si Tammarat: A place that barely has tourists in comparisson with the rest of Thailand.
I don't have any pictures of this place, but it is recommendable as it is very Thai.
(if you're tall, mind your head as shopsigns can chop it off easily)

A picture from the train that left to the far southern part of Thailand, on its way to Malaysia.

Now we make a jump in time: I went to Malaysia for about a month.
Then I came back to Thailand to be together with Pair for another week.
Below some photos of this! We were on the island of Ko Samui.