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#9 Koh Yao Noi and Chiang Mai workaway

To get some more proper beach time after Tonsai, we decided to go to Koh Yao Noi, an island between (geographically not super accurate) Krabi and Phuket. Before getting there, we planned to stay a night in the super touristy town, Ao Nang, close to Tonsai/Railey beach. The cheapest hostel we could find was SlumberContinue reading “#9 Koh Yao Noi and Chiang Mai workaway”

#8 Climbing, climbing, climbing…in Tonsai

Our next stop after Kuala Lumpur was Tonsai beach in Thailand, one of the biggest climbing spots in SE Asia. To get there, we had to take an overnight bus (20 euro for 2 people) from Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai (Thailand), a 5h minibus ride (400BHT /person) to Ao Nam Mao harbor and aContinue reading “#8 Climbing, climbing, climbing…in Tonsai”

#4 Pariaman – Finally some beach time

We almost got lucky by catching a labi-labi directly to Pariaman by chasing it on the scooter, but sadly it was full. Therefore we had to take two buses, one from Harau valley to Bukittinggi and one further to Pariaman. Fortunately, we only had to wait 30 minutes for our second bus. This gave usContinue reading “#4 Pariaman – Finally some beach time”

#3 Harau Valley (IDR) – First day of climbing

Disclaimer: This is not an official nor professional report, just a what we saw and experienced. As mentioned in the previous entry, we already checked some of the crags which we found in online topos, but because of the information we found on the internet, we wanted to visit the crags first, to check theContinue reading “#3 Harau Valley (IDR) – First day of climbing”