Getting into the island hopping on Ko Pu with Michele in Thailand

We picked up Michele, one of my best friends from Germany at the Krabi Airport and went for a snack at the night market: Mango with sticky rice and coconut sauce!

All these different things to try… During our time in Malaysia and Thailand, I ate meat again just to be able to try different things, but still most of my food was vegetarian. Racki had no problems resisting and sticked to her decades-long vegetarianism.

Nice road shop.

Our accommodation for the night had some funny feature: Toilet paper came out of this camera.

Our view from our room. But the receptionist was very nice, friendly, and helpful.

Racki found a super beautiful, handmade dress in the small shop of an extortionary cute women.

Almost the same hair cuts.

And off we went with our first ferry boat.

Already seeing the rocks of the world-famous climbing areas Tonsai and Railey in the distance.

The first long tail boat heading for Ko Pu.

On Ko Pu we found our first scooter taxi.

The scooter had a hard time with the four of us and all the luggage, but the driver was all positive that it would make it.

We made it to our first bungalow resort but were quite confused because the location of the resort was far from what they had advertised on booking.com Instead of a pretty remote beach, it was on the main road. We contacted the resort and talked to the receptionists about that but quickly surrendered.

Nevertheless, we made the best out of it and found a nice spot at the beach.

And a nice cocktail bar.

And our first hippie-style bar. I love these bars with their pretty individual construction-style.

One day, we rented scooters and drove the the trailhead of a nice hike to a small hilltop to have a view over Ko Pu.

The hike was pretty nice and some parts were quite steep. Here it is on komoot.com.

On the way, we met another tourist who had decided to do that hike barefoot. Not being very experienced with going barefoot, there might been some Marijuana involved in his decision.

But we made it all to the top.

And back down.

We took our scooters around the island and found lots of nice places.

An nice evening with cocktails of questionable ingredients and quality but a lot of fun.

Michele and I practiced a lot with my guitar.

And my favorite party night in the Rock Bar.

The owner of the Rock Bar and his reggae band played longer than four hours and we were dancing all the time. It was awesome and especially their interpretation of the songs was super funny and uplifting.

This nice local was all the time dancing with a winter hat.

Michele bought some sexy swimming goggles.

And then it was time for boarding the ferry to the next island. On the way, we passed this well parked sailing boat.

Sport rock climbing at the Spirit Mountain in Thailand

We took the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Krabi in Thailand. Our first destination was the climbing area called Spirit Mountain. See it on thecrag.com. We had contact with the receptionist in advance to figure out if we were allowed to pitch up our tent at the Eco Lodge Resort which is almost completely surrounding the climbing crag. It was a nice contact and for 15 Euros a night, they led us stay on their property and use their facilities.

We arrived in the evening and they were so cute: they had sent us a video so that we could find our tent sport, they installed some temporary lights to make it easier for us, and when we met the workers who were living on the property, they were playing and singing some reggae and chill songs and having just a good time! They were so happy, relaxed and welcoming.

What a start for our T-Hailand experience!

The property was very nicely built and really followed a lot and clever ecological guidelines.

Our tent life home about 50 meters away from the climbing routes.

The routes were awesome and we enjoyed the climbing a lot and it was nice to discover the different climbing sectors around the whole crag.

Tufa-style!

A pig living in the wall.

And there were quite some other climbers which we really liked after mostly climbing alone in Malaysia.

We met another couple from Germany and became friends. They were very nice and even offered us to store our climbing gear so that we would not have to carry it with us for the upcoming weeks when we would explore the Thai islands.

One special route was going up a liana.

On the top of the liana.

This was the spirit mountain from a distance.

We loved our little climbing oasis.

With the cat friends, …

… the dog friends, …

… and it good vibes and friendly Thais and other visitors.

For food, we went to the main road and the restaurants there. The distance was about four kilometers but sometimes a friendly Thai on a scooter picked us up and we had good fun riding with him.

The way was worth it.

Beer advertisement.

And some leaf spring upgrade inspiration for Rosinante.