Trips and Travel
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Koh Chang Ranong (or Koh Chang Noi, the small Koh Chang in the Andaman Sea, not the one off the coast of Cambodia) – I'd say it's still like island life in Thailand in the 90s, just as I remember Koh Tao back then. While neighboring Koh Phayam might be like a 90s Koh Phangan, only without Haad Rin, but with a multitude of cafes, restaurants, and shops, here there are practically no shops, just a few restaurants, and also no cars. Along the beautiful, west-facing beaches, you'll find all kinds of bungalows and huts, generally quite basic, without air conditioning, and often without electricity. But you stay with friendly families who offer wonderful food, lots of fresh fish and seafood, and – thankfully – all kinds of alcohol. Plus, smoking weed is welcome everywhere. Simply paradise, if you can stand it. We're enjoying our last day now. Tomorrow we head home.
si tacuisses
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Beautiful @endo
And greets from Hachioji.
I’m very happy I took the trip here. Not only because of the obvious IH, but because I truly had the feeling of „being in Japan“, seeing only locals on the bus and in the restaurant I went to.
This was different in Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and even Kii-Katsuura, which is a bit more remote, but still has some tourism.
Katsudon and Soba, just as recommended by Toranori, one of the newest store employees.Use it or lose it.
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@endo amazing trip
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@weftyarn said in Trips and Travel:
If only the arseholes in power would come to their senses.
Oh, and there is an implication in that statement that they some to start with
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@weftyarn greetings back. Little envious, I absolutely have to go to Japan sometime.
@Giles we can try. Have played it with Del (you met him in Dec) a few times. He had to do german words and I english. Was fun but you need to be quite pissed.
@Denimhead-0 totally recommended if you‘re up to tropical beach life.
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So, P and I are on our way to a diving trip in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Raja Ampat is effectively in every "best 10 places to dive in the world" list, and we have wanted to dive it for years. A Filipino friend who we met diving in The Philippines in 2017 and then dived with again in The Socorro Islands in 2019, contacted us at the beginning of the year and asked if we wanted to do a Live Aboard in Raja. We jumped at the chance for lots of reasons, not least because we will meet up with lots of dive buddies including our special diving chum Jasmine from San Jose.
It is a bastard to get to, compounded by Mr Trumps decision to start a war. We originally booked to go there and back via Doha. Well, that was suddenly not possible, so after a number of long and painful calls we got BA to change our flight. Via Kuala Lumpur on the way out, and Hong Kong on the way back.
So far, we are 2 flights in, and in Jakarta. We have another flight tonight at midnight (It's 11am local atm), which takes us 4 hours further east. Then we have another hotel room to hang around in for a few hours, then a ferry ride to The Papua Paradise Eco Resort.
Because the travel takes a long time and is expensive, we added 10 days at that resort before we join the live aboard....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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16:45 local time and just woken up after a few hours kip (at the Anara Hotel, Jakarta Airport). Need food, will probable eat here and take our time to check in for the next flight.
It is 1600km from here to Sarong.
And to pick up your point about Indonesia being diverse. It's bloody massive:
We are coming back in October to dive Komodo, which again, we have always wanted to do and I am sure will be totally different:
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Looks awesome @Giles - I would love to explore Indo
Eat.
Pray.Dive. Love.
