Montag, 17. Dezember 2007

tricky waves and fun with girls

On Sunday the weather was not so good, medium size waves, some wind, cloudy but still hot. In the afternoon i decided to go swimming, was a little tricky to get in and when i went out a big wave hit me and i fell down. Nothing happened, these waves are not so huge, but I underestimated their power. Afterwards did a walk at the beach and chatted with a group of 4 girls. We had fun I helped them to get in contact with walking-by"falangs", thats how foreigners are called here. Went eating with them at the food court, this is a place where you have many open stands with different food, you choose what you want and they serve it to a area, where you can sit. Opposite are some open gogo-bars, the girls from there also came to this food place. A funny place to sit and watch, we had much fun together identifying the true ladies and the ladyboys.
Then we went together to a true thai fun place, a karaoke bar. We got a separate room with a shabby sofa and selected some songs from a dictionary (of course everything was pirated, thats for sure because i only had to pay 2 euros/hour for the room rent). They persuaded me also to sing, so I had to select some and was not lucky because my songs had so bad quality that the picture was unstable and vanishes during the song. I am very bad with lyrics and need the text to sing. So I had to improvise during the time with the missing text. I was quite sure, that they had more fun than me. One of the girls was really good, nice voice, good performance. Of course they selected Thai music, I was not able to understand a single word. The lyrics where sometimes in latin letters but mostly in thai letters. The videos where very funny too, these Asian people have a different culture.
On monday went for breakfast in a fruit store, the fresh mangos here are very tastefull. I decided that I have spent enough time on this island and now its time to do some diving. The weather has changed, we had blackmoon last night. Now small waves and mixed cloudy sunny.
I was thinking about booking this resort: www.kotaoresort.com but ended up with this one: www.taatohdivers.com Much cheaper and looks also good. As I have written before, you can have everything in Thailand for every price category. In my case 600 instead of 3000 Bath, or 12 euros instead of 60. In this resort they have german speaking staff, also the dive guides speak german. I did all my diving in german, therefore i am not so familiar with the specific dive vocabulary and also not with the english fish names.
I will take the normal ferry to go there, this one is a little slower but much safer. There are some speed boats which are really fast, but not so safe and I prefer safety.