After the floaty car incident I had a quiet morning with some shopping, reading and wandering around in Kao Lak. Wilma was working hard with the local mechanics to try to get the car up and running and back and forth to the rental office to fix the insurance. Peng (a friend and employee from the jerung house) was scooping up all the remaining water in the car. I the afternoon Wilma and I escaped the car-mess and hopped on to our scooters to visit the market. The markets there are like an exotic version of the Albert Cuijp market in Amsterdam. It was very big and with anything you can imagine. Wilma and I ate some nice snacks, grilled chicken on a stick ;), coconut pancakes and I bought two dresses. Very very nice =]. The food section of the market was even more interesting. Chickens cut in half with the eggs still inside, meat lying in the open almost covered with flies and very peculiar sea shells…
I have no Idea what that was… Wilma left again to check on the car and I stayed to wander some more. I sat down at a little bar and bought an orange juice to get hydrated again. There I found out the owner of the bar was a Dutch guy married to a Thai woman. His son of three was walking around too. When I said (in Dutch of course) that I was going to buy some fruit, the little guy suddenly said “can I go with you?” (also in Dutch). I was stunned, a little boy of three that speaks Thai, Dutch and English. Of course I took him, Song is his name, with me to walk around watch the goldfish and other exotic aquarium fish that they sold and to buy and eat some fruit.
I stayed for two hours hanging around, talking with Songs dad and mother. When I came back I had a moment of rest and Wilma and I went for dinner in a local restaurant where we had sweet and sour squid. Wonderfully good, with fried Thai pumpkin with oyster sauce. I could cry so good was it. For desert Banana fritter with honey. The Thai sure know what is good. Our regular massage parlous was flooded that same night as the car floated away so we searched for another one. We found a good one and the lady gave me a real Thai massage. She walked all over me! But it was incredibly good. I turned in to chill watch a movie. The next morning I packed my bag said goodbye to Wilma and Kao Lak and took a taxi to the airport of Phuket where I took I flight back to Bangkok. The hotel where I made a reservation was close to the airport but in a bad neighborhood. I went out anyway with only some money in my pocket, too scared that I would get robbed if I carried a bag. About 4 minutes walking away was a 7/11 market. I thought that the guy behind the reception meant a supermarket, but it was a real food market. There were only really poor people, men sleeping in every corner. Women were sitting on chairs that have 3 legs instead of 4. It was total poverty. But the food looked incredible. I bought a dragon fruit, grilled chicken with oily pepper coriander sauce and shrimp rice crackers. A very nice meal. I ate it in my hotel room and stayed there because I had to get up at 4 in the night to go to the airport to catch my flight to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I couldn’t sleep and I stayed up all night watching movies and weeds. At four I was ready to go and brought down my bags to be brought to the airport by the hotel cab.
On the airport I had my first encounter with an Australian guy from Melbourne, Gabe. We had breakfast together and found out that we were on the same flight. So he gave me loads of tips on what to do in Melbourne. In the plane I sat next to a nice Malaysian girl who told me all about Kuala Lumpur. Out of the plane I had coffee with Gabe and took a one hour bus to Kuala Lumpur Central and took a cab to Jalan Petaling
road where my hotel is. The hotel was in the middle of the main street of China Town! So Cool! I dumped my bags in the tinest room a hed ever seen. It didn’t even have a window! That doesn’t matter though.. I went outside to take a walk in the city. It is a real metropolitan here. I had the petronas twin towers in view and went to a great square. It was independence day here. I had hoped to see some festivities, but there wasn’t much because of the fasten month and the H1N1 scare. They take these things far too serious here. I took a nap in the afternoon that was far too long… oops, I went to have dinner when the stands were all closing. I met a very nice malasyan kantonese woman who owns a dinner stand. She taught me a lot of kantonese. Thank you for example is Mkoy! She told me a nice place to visit at night and dropped me off there. So nice, I was in the car with her husband and two sons. A nice street with lots of restaurants. I walked back home bought an icecream on the way and just in front of my street an Indian guy talked to me to give me a flyer for salsa lessons. We got talking and invited me to have tea in a café two shops away. His name is Lingan and studied Chakra massage and more about energies. He calculated my earth and universe numbers (4 and 3) and explained a lot about these beliefs and teachings. I went to the hotel to sleep but had no sleep at all.Today I went to see the petronas towers. I crazy French guy tried to climb it! He got caught by the police just after he reached the top! The guy was just like spiderman.
I hopped into the central market which is like a really old aythentic mall with lots of little shops. Very beautiful and I bought some small good luck charms, one for health, one for long life and one for luck! Now, I was supposed to take a tour to the countryside to see the fireflies over the water… But I missed it because the time on my telephone was one hour off… Thank you for your help good luck charm... :S Now I have to think of something else to do tonight. I will go for some more kantonese lessons with Joanne and try to go to the beachclub. A disco near the petronas towers. Tomorrow in the morning I try to go the aquarium if I have enough time because I have to catch my flight at nine to Brisbane!!! Finally! Please don’t forget that you can give a reaction to this blog. I like to hear what you think of it! and how you all are doing ofcourse! And for now! Aie to Buur!!
After the floaty car incident I had a quiet morning with some shopping, reading and wandering around in Kao Lak. Wilma was working hard with the local mechanics to try to get the car up and running and back and forth to the rental office to fix the insurance. Peng (a friend and employee from the jerung house) was scooping up all the remaining water in the car. I the afternoon Wilma and I escaped the car-mess and hopped on to our scooters to visit the market. The markets there are like an exotic version of the Albert Cuijp market in Amsterdam. It was very big and with anything you can imagine. Wilma and I ate some nice snacks, grilled chicken on a stick ;), coconut pancakes and I bought two dresses. Very very nice =]. The food section of the market was even more interesting. Chickens cut in half with the eggs still inside, meat lying in the open almost covered with flies and very peculiar sea shells… 
I have no Idea what that was… Wilma left again to check on the car and I stayed to wander some more. I sat down at a little bar and bought an orange juice to get hydrated again. There I found out the owner of the bar was a Dutch guy married to a Thai woman. His son of three was walking around too. When I said (in Dutch of course) that I was going to buy some fruit, the little guy suddenly said “can I go with you?” (also in Dutch). I was stunned, a little boy of three that speaks Thai, Dutch and English. Of course I took him, Song is his name, with me to walk around watch the goldfish and other exotic aquarium fish that they sold and to buy and eat some fruit. 
I stayed for two hours hanging around, talking with Songs dad and mother. When I came back I had a moment of rest and Wilma and I went for dinner in a local restaurant where we had sweet and sour squid. Wonderfully good, with fried Thai pumpkin with oyster sauce. I could cry so good was it. For desert Banana fritter with honey. The Thai sure know what is good. Our regular massage parlous was flooded that same night as the car floated away so we searched for another one. We found a good one and the lady gave me a real Thai massage. She walked all over me! But it was incredibly good. I turned in to chill watch a movie. The next morning I packed my bag said goodbye to Wilma and Kao Lak and took a taxi to the airport of Phuket where I took I flight back to Bangkok. The hotel where I made a reservation was close to the airport but in a bad neighborhood. I went out anyway with only some money in my pocket, too scared that I would get robbed if I carried a bag. About 4 minutes walking away was a 7/11 market. I thought that the guy behind the reception meant a supermarket, but it was a real food market. There were only really poor people, men sleeping in every corner. Women were sitting on chairs that have 3 legs instead of 4. It was total poverty. But the food looked incredible. I bought a dragon fruit, grilled chicken with oily pepper coriander sauce and shrimp rice crackers. A very nice meal. I ate it in my hotel room and stayed there because I had to get up at 4 in the night to go to the airport to catch my flight to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I couldn’t sleep and I stayed up all night watching movies and weeds. At four I was ready to go and brought down my bags to be brought to the airport by the hotel cab.
On the airport I had my first encounter with an Australian guy from Melbourne, Gabe. We had breakfast together and found out that we were on the same flight. So he gave me loads of tips on what to do in Melbourne. In the plane I sat next to a nice Malaysian girl who told me all about Kuala Lumpur. Out of the plane I had coffee with Gabe and took a one hour bus to Kuala Lumpur Central and took a cab to Jalan Petaling 
road where my hotel is. The hotel was in the middle of the main street of China Town! So Cool! I dumped my bags in the tinest room a hed ever seen. It didn’t even have a window! That doesn’t matter though.. I went outside to take a walk in the city. It is a real metropolitan here. I had the petronas twin towers in view and went to a great square. It was independence day here. I had hoped to see some festivities, but there wasn’t much because of the fasten month and the H1N1 scare. They take these things far too serious here. I took a nap in the afternoon that was far too long… oops, I went to have dinner when the stands were all closing. I met a very nice malasyan kantonese woman who owns a dinner stand. She taught me a lot of kantonese. Thank you for example is Mkoy! She told me a nice place to visit at night and dropped me off there. So nice, I was in the car with her husband and two sons. A nice street with lots of restaurants. I walked back home bought an icecream on the way and just in front of my street an Indian guy talked to me to give me a flyer for salsa lessons. We got talking and invited me to have tea in a café two shops away. His name is Lingan and studied Chakra massage and more about energies. He calculated my earth and universe numbers (4 and 3) and explained a lot about these beliefs and teachings. I went to the hotel to sleep but had no sleep at all.Today I went to see the petronas towers. I crazy French guy tried to climb it! He got caught by the police just after he reached the top! The guy was just like spiderman.
I hopped into the central market which is like a really old aythentic mall with lots of little shops. Very beautiful and I bought some small good luck charms, one for health, one for long life and one for luck! Now, I was supposed to take a tour to the countryside to see the fireflies over the water… But I missed it because the time on my telephone was one hour off… Thank you for your help good luck charm... :S Now I have to think of something else to do tonight. I will go for some more kantonese lessons with Joanne and try to go to the beachclub. A disco near the petronas towers. Tomorrow in the morning I try to go the aquarium if I have enough time because I have to catch my flight at nine to Brisbane!!! Finally! Please don’t forget that you can give a reaction to this blog. I like to hear what you think of it! and how you all are doing ofcourse! And for now! Aie to Buur!!
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I'm a little bit jealous :p
This is a big but great trip blog :p I'm liking to read this.. Good Luck "Beautiful" ;)
Vette shit Lin!
Maarrre.. waar zijn de foto's? ;)
Kusjes
foto's zijn dr weer!!
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