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109: To Tokyo with Style

March 26th, 2006

I left Hong Kong yesterday and flew to Tokyo. The flight　was rather pleasant as the kind people at United Airlines upgraded me to Business Class. NICE

BIG, comfy chairs, excellent service and a rather nice good 3-course meal (salad with smoked salmon, a Japanese steamed Salmon dish for main course and a peach cheese cake with passion fruit mousse.. They even had Starbucks Coffee on board..

After this nice flight I arrived at Narita Airport in Tokyo at 14:00 a bit ahead of schedule but dont think that was the end of the trip.

Immigration took ages and the train to Tokyo took even longer.
In the end it took me another 3.30 hours! to get to my hotel after I left the airplane!

more later.. end of online time at internet cafe..

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108: More Hong Kong

March 24th, 2006

This morning I walked to a little coffee shop next to the Royal Pacific Hotel. I knew that this place has free Internet access for customers so it was a chance to google for “hong kong internet cafe” and try to find proper internet cafes.

After my time was up (I also wrote the 107 blog there) I left and walked back towards Nathan Road to find a proper Internet Cafe. I could not help it but had to pop into Sweet Dynasty Restaurant again which is not far from Royal Pacific Hotel on Canton Road. It’s a place that specialises on Deserts and their menu starts with a few pages of them. I had Tofu with fresh Mango there yesterday which comes in a steaming bowl and looks rather pretty (they use dry ice I think) but I wanted to try their Swallows Nest Deserts today.

Since It was late lunch time (ok it was around 3pm) I de3cided to have some Congee first.
I picked Sweet Dynasty Congee with Meat Balls, Pigs Tribe, Preserved Egg and Spicy Pork.
It was very tasty indeed and a pretty big bowl for 32 HKD. For those who don’t know Preserved Egg, I don’t know exactly how they make it, it tastes interesting but it looks rather revolting It’s like a boiled egg except the egg while is translucent brown and the yegg yolk is – dare I say it – dark greenish colored. Not what you would normally consider a healthy looking egg

After the congee I picked Stewed Swallows Nest Soup in Coconut Milk.
It’s a desert (they also had it waith Walnut soup, Almond soup and Raw Cane Sugar Soup I think) and was quite nice though IMHO didn’t quite justify the high price of 200HKG. Still I had to try it..

Hmmm, I wonder what’s for dinner..

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107: Hong Kong

March 24th, 2006

I arrived in Hong Kong yesterday but due to lack of Internet Cafes and limited online time allowance at the one I am at right now (I get chucked out now after 15 minutes) I must continue this later ..

All I can say is: Roasted Goose, Barbecued Pork, Coconut Milk with Sago and Tofu with fresh Mangoo….. all within a few hours of arrival here in Bangkok! Also had some unidentified deep fried things on skewers (think it was crayfish or similar) which was rather tasty.

I’m in Heaven

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106: Lucky Me

March 24th, 2006

I arrived in Hong Kong yesterday but before I got here I had another little adventure at Bangkok Airport
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105: Samui

March 17th, 2006

I left Ko Tao and moved on to Ko Samui today. Took the Seatran ferry and had a rather pleasant 2h trip over to Ko Samui.

Reason I went here is twofold:
a) I fly out to Bangkok from here to cach my flight to hong kong and b) I want to visit the Ang Thong National Marine Park nearby for some kayaking and snorkelling. The Marine Park consists of lots of small islands about an hour north-west of Samui with stunning secenery (I think “The Beach”was shot here)

SoI will hang out here on Samui for a few days and also try to read up about Japan and maybe also learn a few words of japanese

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104: Life after Ko Tao

March 13th, 2006

Looks like I have to face the facts and leave Ko Tao sooner than later
My Japan trip is approaching fast and I haven’t even read up about it..

Actually I had several trip changes recently starting with the decision to cancle/postpone the trip to Cambodia due to lack of time. It was a difficult decision since Angkor Wat is supposed to be awesome and I really wanted to go there but over the past three month I have realised that the speedy gonzales approach of travelling isnt my thing. I enjoy staying at places for a wee while to “soak up the atmosphere” as they say. Rushing through a country and being mostly on the move is ok if I don’t like the places I visit but once I find a nice spot its “all engines stop” and RELAX!

Well Ko Tao is definitely a RELAX place

So I cancled the trip to Cambodia and because of that I wouldnt travel into Vietnam either. Vietnam was only supposed to be Saigon anyway for 5-6 days. Saigon because that’s where my next flight leaves from (to get to Hong kong). I could have travelled to Saigon from thailand but I chose to add the extra few days to the Island stay and changed the departure airport for Hong Kong to Bangkok now.

I’m sure I will come back to SE Asia sooner than later also because I want to travel through Vietnam properly for a month or so and north-south Vietnam and up to cambodia then over to thailand for a nice beach is a very good trip I leave it for next time

So I’m quite pleased that I can hang around here for a bit longer and just have to get back to Bangkok to catch my flight to Hong Kong on the 23rd, easy

So what’s next?
Well, the deeper waters around Ko Tao are a bit murky at the moment (prob. due to full moon) so I have not done any diving for the last 2 days. I did some snorkelling instead which is always nice Also I thought about going over to Similan Islands before heading off to Hong Kong since diving there is supposed to be awesome but they had a bunch of small quakes over the last few days so its an area I rather avoid just now

The current plans then are to head off in the next few days to go to ko phan ngan and ko samui afterwards. Samui because I want to do a trip to Ang Tong? Marine Park near Samui.. supposed to be nice there.

Well.. 10 days left in Thailand (and I’m very upset about this) so I need to make the best of it!

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103: Swimming with Sharks

March 13th, 2006

At last.. it took two weeks of looking out for sharks during my dive trips (without success)
but today I went snorkelling at Shark Bay and about 200m off the beach I found 8-10 Black Top Sharks below me – Magic!

The water depth was between 1.5 and 3m. The sharks were circling the area close to the ground. The were younger ones of about 80cm I reckon and the biggest ones were probably between 1.5m and 2m? Difficult to tell partly because everything looks bigger under water..

I swam mostly 5-6m away from them but also got closer (or rather the shark came closer to me) to maybe 3m or so.. I was told the black tip sharks are pretty harmless so I was not concerned about being too close to them but I did make sure to not to get too close nevertheless

Did some “free diving” (holding my breath) at the “deeper” water (the 3m stretch that is;-) but I’m crap at it and don’t think I got more than 30 seconds max at a time;-) Gotta work on that.. Still nice to follow the sharks around down there even if it was just for a few seconds.

The water temperature at Shark Bay was about 28C-30C like on most dive sites around Ko tao though when I dived down to the sharks (which was only about 2.5-3m) the temperature dropped noticeably (actually quite refreshing;-) and visibility got a bit better too..

A good day.

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102: Ko Tao – Diving

March 13th, 2006

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101: Ko Tao Pics

March 13th, 2006

I added a few pictures from Ko Tao to flickr.
Not much considering that I have been on Ko Tao for two weeks now but I have been mostly underwater diving and that camera isn’t all that waterproof and whilst on the beach its not very safe or health to keep it there in the sun and the sand..

The overview is here and the detailed view with some descriptions are here

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100: Ko Tao – The Island

March 12th, 2006

Guess it’s time to do a bit of bloggin again, especially since it’s gonna be blog 100

So lets talk a bit about Ko Tao then…
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