"THE JOURNEY"

kho Tao

rescue diving

10.01.2012 - 29.01.2012 28 °C
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After a 2h boatride where everyone get sick, we arrive at the pier of koh tao where we see our diveschool, Impian Divers.
From the moment i stepped into the school, it feld good, and the people are great. suus, davide, latoya, daan, robert, sergi, audrey and our dutch friend who did rescue with us, jorrit. and there where others like the very friendly dutch couple with there daughter nathalie, david, ...
We moved for two weeks in the triple - B bungalow, managed by friendly french couple and flemish guy. our time was great, party, party, party

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And yes; between al the party, we actually managed to get our rescue diver certificate

the super instructor sergi and daan; thanks guys.
So what followed was some good free dives

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and unfortunly i get very sick, went to the hospital, and didn't really find out what it was, so we decided to have a break and heading for cambodia. so it was goodbye to some and cya to others, but jorrit, we had a very good time

So we headed for cambodia , with a one day stop in bangkok, where we went out with bram, my belgian friend who lives in bangkok and it was a very good night

so good, that we missed the bus to siem reap

changed our tickets and next morning we headed to the mighty temples of ankor wat....

Posted by daan rtw 30.01.2012 02:55 Archived in Thailand Comments (0)

kho pangh an

full moon party

06.01.2012 - 10.01.2012 29 °C
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So as the journey continued in the direction of party island kho pangh an, we meet some nice people; among them Omar and Fernando,
2 peruvians living in canada. with them we booked together in great bay resort. there we relaxed first and then went of for the jungle party, nice party in the jungle where we really get wasted. next day was the big day, FULL MOON PARTY we partyed till noon, and it was amazing !!
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Posted by daan rtw 30.01.2012 02:45 Archived in Thailand Comments (0)

phuket - phang-nga bay - koh phi phi

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16.01.2012

After a nice new year's eve, the week started with a hangover and a bit to slow, with crazy prices and almost no organised 'payable' transport around phuket. bad luck as the private boottrip to krabi with marcus, serge and nounou and some others couldn't go trough; but a nice excursion to phang-nga bay 'James Bond Island' soften the pain P1080116

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for good times can continue, we went for a day of diving with thailand divers at kho phi phi, and that was amazing.
3 good dives and meeting nice people like katharina and ricardo. to hot, so my first sunburn was a fact
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and this followed with a good night of rock music played by some good coverbands, one of them playing AC/DC
So here the first chapter ends

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the start

brussel-bangkok-phuket

28.12.2011 - 02.01.2012 27 °C
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the start of the jouney as begun; as soon as trouble could start, it started before leaving belgium with heavenly overweighted bags,
lucky for us,a very nice girl at the desk
after a 9h15 stop in doha en troubles with phone, bankcard, visacard and internet i managed to stay relatively calm soon all quickly to been forgotten at arrival in bangkok; one night in bangkok ; one day in bangkok, hello kao san road !!

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Then after 1h flight arrivel in phuket, 1h drive to patong; hello BANGLA ROAD

HAPPY NEW YEAR, patong beach

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may it be an advantures 2012.......

Posted by daan rtw 01.01.2012 20:40 Archived in Thailand Comments (0)

the journey

welcome

02.12.2011 11 °C

...when the dream stopped... and reality took over... my journey begins: exploring the world far from home; by land , under the sea and hopefully in the sky.

i'm david, 30 years and i will spread my wings as long and far as i can.