More fotos from Koh Chang

Ferry and "Sorn-ang-tou" - the public "bus"

Koh Chang means "Elephant Island"

and has many nice waterfalls.

Relaxing the first two days in the djungle

with great food, like everywhere... ;-)

Day trip to the touristy White Sands beach - no, we wouldn't want to stay here.

But Koh Chang is a very beautiful island

and at Long Beach we found "our" spot.

At low tide you can walk out for far - and look back towards our Treehouse Lodge.


Cats and young dogs everywhere. :-)

Back to OZ!

Have booked a flight - tomorrow we are flying back to Adelaide with Air Malaysia again. Yeehaa!! One month in Cambodia and two months in Thailand.... were wonderful. Angkor Wat and Cambodian people and countryside, a lovely family holiday with our parents in Hua Hin and on Koh Phayam and finally more than 3 weeks at peaceful Long Beach on Koh Chang, relaxing, reading and meeting so many great people... we are grateful and very happy about everyting that's come to us. And now we are excited to go back to all the wonderful people in Australia again! And to our DAN the van!! :-) Lot's of love and sunny greetings to everyone freezing in Germany! ;-) In Adelaide it's supposed to be up to 42 degrees...

Fotos from Koh Chang!

We are in Trat now, nice little town, and finally fast Internet! :-) are right now looking for flights back to Adelaide. This is lovely Long Beach on Koh Chang, where we spend as much as 23 nights!

Our treehouse bungalows! ours is the one behind the trees on the far right.

showers!

restaurant!

sunset!

New Year's Eve party!

Visa granted!!

Holger's visa for another 12 month has just been granted!! He had to attach his bank account, a statement about our itineray in Australia and one about what we are planning to do after we leave Australia. Holger wrote very nice and apparently convincing statements - and here we go!! Australia, here we come! Again!! ;-)
So tomorrow we'll enjoy a last day at the beautiful Long Beach here on Koh Chang.... meanwhile we really feel as part of the family, including even a Malaria blood test (all well, and of course they had seperately packed, clean needles ;-) with the Thais in the beach restaurant... and last night the manager's baby "Nemo" turned one year old and there was a big party with cake for everyone and a huge fire - we were among the last "birthday party guests" at the fire at around 4 in the morning... Nemo already sleeping, of course.
And then: Good bye Koh Chang and back to Bangkok! Book a flight and back to Adelaide - Max and Nim are already waiting, they have moved house and Nim's twins (two boys) are getting bigger and bigger. Are already looking forward to see her big belly - and Debbie doggie! :-)

Still no fotos from Koh Chang

Although I'm quite proud of myself of having managed to crop some pics to just 200 KB in the THAI version of MS Picture Manager, the Internet connection still seems to be toooo sloooow...... and for the price of 60 Baht per hour for the internet we could instead eat Salama's homemade French Fries, which are the best we've ever eaten anywhere in the world... it's just a tropical paradise. No picture updates. Sorry. ;-)
Still no news about Holger's new visa for Australia - but mine had been granted in just 4 hours in early December, so we're still optimistic.

Happy new year!

Happy new year and all the best wishes to all of you and thanks for following our blog! We have been on the island Koh Chang for more than a week now, in a beautiful Hippie Bungalow "Treehouse Logde" in the southeast of the island and enjoying the peace here. Had a nice little new year's eve party on the beach with fire and music & two buckets of Sang Som & Coke... :-) was good fun. Internet connection is very slow so I can't upload pictures, and to get mobile connection you have to either hold on to a tree that's growing over the beach from the restaurant of our lodge or walk out to a sand bank when the tide is low.... but still - this is a very remote spot. Lovely. Lots of love & all the best for 2011 to everyone!

Hua Hin, Koh Phayam, Bangkok

Standing Buddha in Hua Hin

Yummy Seafood!

Beautiful cave in a national park south of Hua Hin

fishing village

our home on lovely Koh Phayam

view from our verandah no.1

no.2

no.3

no.4

in the Hippie Bar!


one of "our dogs"

Holger und Gerd with Jim, one of the "pirates" ;-)

Family reunion with my parents, too, on a tropical island and our Christmas eve! 8 days early, but very happy!

Nood's Gorgeous Masaman Curry

with Nood und Jun!