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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”

#6 Orangutan trek in Ketambe

The night before the hike we stayed in a nice guesthouse called “The 1000 Hills”. We had a standard room with a nice garden view. Later that evening we realized that we also had a roommate, a small gecko that lived behind the bed. But for this night he had to move out 🙂 TheContinue reading “#6 Orangutan trek in Ketambe”

#5 Lake Toba Chill

After staying no longer than two nights in all the previous places we visited, finally, we were heading to a destination where we were about to stay for 5 days – lake Toba.Our initial plan was to stay in Bukittinggi for one night and hike up to a volcano (name to put in), but theContinue reading “#5 Lake Toba Chill”

#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”

#2 Sumatra (ID) – Western Sumatra, Harau Valley

This post will be splited into two parts, first part about how we got there (did not worked as planed of course) and second part about the Harau Valley in general. That post is quite long this time, so for pictures you htave to scroll a lot, but no worries, they’re there. 🙂 Part 1Continue reading “#2 Sumatra (ID) – Western Sumatra, Harau Valley”

#1 Singapore

Finally, the 7 of January has arrived and the first stop of our trip is Singapore. To sum up the city, we like it! Singapore is (as everybody already heard) an extremely clean city with a lot of plants and trees within the city. We stayed for 2 nights in a capsule hostel and thatContinue reading “#1 Singapore”