Søren Grubb

Trip to Aarhus

2006-10-21T15:07:00.000+02:00

The new bicycle bridge that makes my trip to work alot easier!

My friend Nikolaj as a parking guard cought off guard :)

From the back of the boat on the way to Aarhus, to visit my younger sister.

I took a stroll on the walking street which reminded me alot of the one in Copenhagen... The people are just more relaxed here, I like it :)

My sister, putting up laundry in the backyard of her apartment complex.

The backyard :) Looks nice for parties!

We did a walk in the forest just outside the city center :D

Look at the colours of the tree and the water in the background! :)

A really nice park in Aarhus

My sister by the water with Aarhus center in the background.

A typical walking street in Aarhus

My sister

The stream that runs under the walking street has been dug up again to bring some nature into the city.
Here the young gothic people come to hang out.

The view in the other direction.

They have Istedgade in Aarhus as well?? Didn't see any prostitutes though ;)

My sisters room... nice isn't it? :)

The art-museum called Aros... Big red building... It costed 125kr (20 dollars), to see the exhibition... so we did something else (we're both students)

Inside Aros.

My sister, sitting on a bench eating chinabox and drinking christmas beer... I'm proud :D

Cafe "Øst for paradis" a cinema where we went to see the french movie "Playtime".

Pictures!

2006-09-02T21:58:00.000+02:00

Hi, I have uploaded my pictures to Flickr instead... this blogger is too slow and annoying.

You can find alot of pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sorengrubb

If you click the "map"-button you can view the pictures from the different places.

I'm working on naming and describing all of the pictures, but there are soooo many :)

Love

Soren

From diving at Poor Knights island to madness in Tokyo

2006-08-18T03:43:00.000+02:00

The diving at Poor Knights island was amazing!

I had 2 dives, 1 at Cream Garden and 1 at Blue Maomao Arch.

This is what Blue Maomao Arch looked like.
(picture from a homepage)

The dives were amazing, the way the light of the sun illuminated the centre of the arch through a hole in the rock was incredible... as I swam through it second time I looked back and saw the illuminated spot, the hundreds of travellies swimming around and in the background the sillouettes of the kelp. Wauw!

When we came out of the arch again we swam into some great nature pools. That was quite fun because the surf pulled you in to the pool and you had to fight alot to get out again.

The Poor Knights island is today a nature reserve, but Maories used to live there. The story goes that a chief from the island gathered his men and went to the mainland to plunder... while he was gone another tribe from the mainland were informed by a spy and came to kill all the women and children left behind. Since then the island has been deserted.

After this great experience I went back to Auckland for my flight to Tokyo.

Tokyo is very hot compared to NZ, there is a constant humidity that makes the heat unbearable sometimes... thank God for aircon :)

I stayed a couple of days in Tokyo hostel which I googled. I went to Asakusa with some english guys which is the old part of Tokyo with a nice temple and a great pagoda. Later to Akihabara which is a giant electronics market... oh my buddha it was large... 7 floors of electronics in all the buildings, and alot of Manga! Motoo my colleague from AJN called it the Mecca of Manga :D
I bought an underwater casing for my camera! So next time I go diving you will see underwater pictures :D

Yesterday I met two danish girls from Oesterbro :) We went around sightseeing and shopping, that was quite nice. Really weird to speak danish again... the last Dane I met was more than a month ago in Auckland.

Today I wanna go to the botanical garden and maybe the Tokyo tower. :)

Northland!

2006-08-13T07:31:00.000+02:00

Hey!

I've been so busy the last couple of weeks that I forgot all about my blogger!

After Dunedin I went back to Christchurch where it was the towns 150 years birthday. I went to the cinema and saw " The Da Vinci Code"... it's an OK movie I think, despite that I've only heard bad critics... but all the exciting scenes from the book are kinda boring in this movie and alot of clues get lost in the confusement.

After Christchurch I took a train to Picton and a ferry to Wellington (on the north island).
Wellington is the capital of NZ. I arranged my Magic bus tour on the northland and went to the "Te papa" the national museum.
From wellington I went to Napier... kinda boring because I had booked myself on a hostel where only 1 other person went...
After Napier I went to Taupo, on the bus I got to talk with a group of British people Marc (Bingerz), Amy, Robyn, Elizabeth (Liz, Irish), Nathalie, Andy and a canadian girl called Cheryl.
I spent the rest of my time i Northland with them and had a great time!
I went skydiving with Liz, Robyn and an italian guy called Stephano in Taupo... It was absolutely crazy! I LOOOVE FREEFALL :D
The next morning I did a bungy in Taupo as well... and I hit the water!

Then we went to Rotorua with the magic bus. It was crazy driving in to the town... there were big emmisions of steam coming from the soil everywhere.... and in the town there was a great fog and a constant smell of rotten eggs. We went to see the Thermal Wonderland... you need to see the pictures... it was beautiful!
We had rented a car and were driving around in the area. In our hostel they had a thermally heated swimmingpool, so we spent a couple of hours in there every night!
The first night I went to the Maiti show with some of the girls. It was great! We saw the Maori's do the Haka and there was a buffet with Hangi (maori tradition, underground BBQ).
The next evening it was Robyn's birthday and we went partying in the local bar!
Then we went to Auckland and hired a car once again!
We drove the car up to Paiha and a friend of Marc's (Claire) joined in. From Paiha some of us took a tour up to Cape Reigna the next day, which was a really good trip! On the way back they dropped me off at Whangarei. In Whangarei I did some tramping up to the amazing waterfall. The next day I went diving at the Poor Knight's island which is according to Jacques Costeau one of the top 10 best diving spots in the world!
It was absolutely amazingly fantastic! (even the american exagerated words don't describe it well enough) :)

Now I'm back in Auckland and just chilling at the Fat Camel (my hostel).
Tomorrow morning I'm off to Tokyo!

Southern NZ

2006-07-26T13:19:00.000+02:00

Hey everybody!

I'm in Dunedin right now... have spent some days with Stray tours in a bus doing the southern pass of southern NZ.
Started in Qtown and got to Milford Sound on the first day. We bought a boatride in the fiord and it was really beautiful! (pictures later)
We spent the night in Te Anau and made dinner together... all 6 of us (thanks to low season :) )
Next day we moved on to Invercargill... but on the way we stopped at a farm and did some shearing (sheep shaving). It was really fun and amazingly easy :D
Invercargill was a bit dull but there was a cinema so I went to see Lake House together with Lara (a german girl I'm travelling with).
Today we stopped on some spots on the way to Dunedin. We stopped at a place where we saw a sea lion and a place where we saw fossilized trees. We also looked for penguins but didn't have any luck finding 'em. After that we lost a backpack on the way. The luggage room had opened by itself on the way and a backpack had worked its way out of the bus. After some hours search we heard that a guy had taken the backpack to the police in Otawa... So... we went there and got the backpack. We arrived late at the hostel, ate some food and then played pool and drank Speights :)
Now people have gone to bed and I'm sitting alone in the bar...
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Looking forward to coming home and party with the good old boys :D

By the way... I did it again... think it's 5th time in a row that I've forgotten my mom's birthday :D Congratz Mom... I love you :)

Not alot more to write... oh.. yeah... The bus I've been following the last couple of days was only me and 5 girls... The busdriver was a policewoman from Holland called Spankie... so you can all guess how much feminist crap I had to hear >.< I agree that some men are fuckin stupid... but... same goes for some women. What I don't get is that women are allowed to say "all men are pigs" but a man would never say the opposite? I will now use my freedom of speech to say following: "some women should talk less and listen more".

I have alot of beautiful pictures... they will come whenever I feel I have the time for that :)

I will go to bed and think of people at home, the people I miss the most! :)

Walk in the Queenstown mountains :)

2006-07-17T04:16:00.000+02:00

Pictures from my walk in the mountains near Queenstown (from yesterday)
I did the Fernhill loop.
The pictures are in reverse order!

Auckland to Christchurch to Queenstown (reverse order)

2006-07-16T23:50:00.000+02:00

Me :) At the pier in Queenstown

Picture from when I arrived in Queenstown

Big Mama... did this slope 3 times... it was incredible! Black slope... really steep but the snow was so good that it didn't matter at all :D

The beautiful view from the top of Porter Heights

My beautiful track in the powder snow :D hope yuo can see it... its in the left side of the picture... sorry don't wanna rotate it... I'm busy damnit!

Porter Heights!

Snowboarding the Kiwi way :D

From the car on the way to Porter Heights

Hanmer springs (hot spring baths)

From the walk I did in Hanmer Springs.

Another pic from the walk

A waterfall on the way

From the start of the walk, eating a pie :D

I walked from Christchurch to New Brighton, ate some fish n chips and took the bus back :) long walk...

The guy I bought Fish n chips from... he was cool :D

Auckland:
I met a guy from california (Landon) and we ate some korean food together

Auckland: picture from a walk I did in the city

Auckland: The view from the skytower

Auckland: From a free guided tour

New Zealand!! :D

2006-07-09T04:28:00.000+02:00

I just ordered 3 days snowboarding in Mt Hutt... its gonna be soo great cause the weather here is super!
Auckland was fine, I met 2 english girls (Edel and Sarah) and found a guesthouse with them. We went on a tour around Auckland and ordered plane tickets to Christchurch (where I am now).
It's freezing cold compared to SE asia, but it's just like being home in Denmark for me :D Everybody speaks english and it's really easy to travel around... crazy how easy it is actually :D
I really love the fresh air and the clean environment, NZ is a great country!
Edel and I went to a bar to see the All Blacks play against the Aussie Wallabees yesterday... great game and a dedicated crowd :)People are really nice here, and there are alot of drunken rygbyfans :D

Before NZ I was in Singapore. I met 2 chinese girls on the plane to Johor Bahru and they convinced me to go with them to Singapore and stay instead of boring JB. Soo... when I came there, there were no free rooms at any of the central hotels... so I stayed in their room. We went out for Karaoke with their friends and I sang alot (not a pretty sight)... They were really nice people and chinese definately know how to party :D Casandra and I went to a night club with a live band and met up with the other people later in the hotel room... they had bought vodka and whiskey... so we partied rest of the night while germany lost to italy on the telly. Next day I went to the airport and heard that my flight was cancelled... :( they had to rearrange my flight so I had a transit in Sydney!! WOOOHOO another continent I've been to :D well... only for an hour... In Auckland I went out to eat Korean food with a californian guy called Landon... we ate a buffet where we could grill our own food... sooo fuckin good, but also quite expensive.

I've lived in the Base hostels in Auckland and now also in Christchurch... they're quite OK... but nothing special.

Yesterday I broke one of the CD's with my pictures... DAMN IT... I think it was the pictures from Laos... not sure... guess there will be less torture for my friends and family when I get home :P

I love NZ... it's a great country!

Soo.... tonight I'm gonna watch the world cup finale... (Anders should be proud) and tomorrow morning its off to Mt Hutt and 3 days of snowboarding. I heard the snow is great right now and the sky is blue! :D

Enough with my chattering... my 30 mins is almost up, so have a great time at home and enjoy your perfect danish summer :)

2006-07-02T17:42:00.000+02:00

I'm sitting in Tropicana Lodge again... drinking beer with the danish people (they're fuckin everywhere here) and smoking a joint with Vincent (the coolest guesthouse owner I have ever met).
Well... today I was out white water rafting with 6 japanese people... omg... I love japanese people now... always so polite and sooo friendly... and fuckin crazy! (the good way)
Before this I was out diving in Sipadan... It was crazy! I have never seen anything so beautiful... ... ...
On the way from Semporna(sipadan) my bus broke down... so I had to hitch a ride the rest of the way... I got a ride from a friendly malaysian guy that spoke very well english. I had to sit in the open back of the car, and read a book that I got from another danish guy in Semporna. The ride in the car was so beautiful and I really enjoyed the fact that eventhough you're stuck somewhere in the jungle its so easy to get help :) Then they dropped me off 10km from KK and I had to take a bus... The busdriver wanted me to sit in the seat next to him and we song Westlife and Michael learns to rock for the whole busride :D
Tomorrow I think I will go to one of the nearby islands and snorkle a bit... and then the day after I'm going to JB.

Today at the river rafting there was a barbeque after the rafting... and there they played Michael Learns To Rock all the time... it felt like Denmark in the 90'es :D

I'm actually doing really great, have had a really good time here in Borneo. There is so much to do here, I should have spent a month here... but I guess thats just an excuse to go back here :)

From the jungle to the jungle to the jungle!

2006-06-26T15:10:00.000+02:00

Ok!

A long time since last update... I know... I'm sorry!
There has been alot of experinces to write about... but no time... (sounds crazy I know)

Well... I really enjoyed my time with Anders in Laos! We went on a 2 days motorbike trip in southern Laos (Pakse) where we saw alot of waterfalls... really pretty ones!
We also went to Sip ha don, but that wasn't so exciting.

Then I went to Bangkok to meet up with Bee again, and we went nightclubbing, sushi eating, movie watching, getting massage and alot more. All this we did together with her american friend James and a Japanese guy, Dee, I had met at the trainstation in Bangkok.

Anders came to Bangkok after a couple of days and we went ice skating, bowling and nightclubbing again! :)

Now I am in Kota Kinabalu in Borneo where I am waiting for my permission to go diving in Sipadan.
Yesterday when I arrived in the airport a really cool guy named Vincent came up to me and said he had a cheap guesthouse with dorm rooms... so... 3 danish couples joined in... so now we are 7 danish people in the same guesthouse... weeeiirrdd... hehe
Vincents car was stuck in the mud... sooo... we had alot of problems with getting it out, and he had to call a friend with a 4WD to get it out.
Anyway... I really like it here, its so social and Vincent has arranged my diving for me, so everything is good! :)

Other images:
A waterfall we saw on our motorbike trip!

We bathed in that waterfall.

Anders and Matthew (the english guy)

Me.. on my ride...

The most beautiful waterfall I have ever seen... In the middle of the jungle!

Milk from thailand is called Thai-Dansih... we found that pretty fun... well.. there's not much to do in a bus anyways :P

From the first motorbike ride with Anders!

Same trip with Anders... like my helmet? :D

James, Bee's friend from America... totally new yorker... whatever that means.
(he has major hangovers on this picture)

We went ice skating in BKK :)

From Gullivers, from left: Bee, Dee and mee! :D

Bangkok again!

2006-06-21T08:46:00.000+02:00

Hello people!

I'm back in Bangkok! I will write about my trip in southern Laos later, right now I just wanna say that I ordered tickets for Kota Kinabalu, so the rest of the time in SE Asia I'm gonna use by diving in Sipadan and/or Mabul! :)
Updating the blogger with pictures very soon! :)

PICTURES FROM LAOS... WAAUUUWW!

2006-06-08T13:17:00.000+02:00

Here are some pictures... most of them are from Bee because I'm soo f***ing lazy and she's so f***ing good at compressing the picture and this internet is so f***ing slow! ...

Plain of jars... don't know why I look so silly... ?

(The plain of jars are kinda like stonehenge... nobody knows why they are there)

A temple in Luang Praban

We ended up in a small village at a crossroad, we had to stay there overnight. I just startet on some Lao Lao we bought earlier from a farmer. That became a crazy night.

Anders and I waiting... And waiting... no bus...

A picture from the plain of jars... Walk on the white side of the stones to prevent stepping on mines.

Anders is fueling the bike up before our adventure!

OK... this took 2 hours... I've had enough... don't worry I will put all the pics on CD's and upload 'em at a later time.

for more pictures look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beebah/sets/72157594159522353/

Get your motors running...

2006-06-06T07:35:00.000+02:00

We rented motorbikes yesterday and tried to ride through the national park, when we had ridden 1,5 hour through the jungle we came to a village called Nam Ha. There we stopped for some noodles and some Leo. When i tried to start my motorbike again it wouldn't start, so... we tried alot of things and then finally agreed that Anders should drive back and get help. I waited there for an hour and then 3 guys came by on motorbikes... they had some tools so we could get the ignition out and clean it. I speeded through the jungle on the way back to Anders... and met him with 2 guys from the shop on the normal road 10 mins from Luang Namtha.
Then we decided to follow the normail road to the chinese boarder Boten. We got there and stayed at a guesthouse.
Today there were problems again... Anders' engine just stopped while he was driving... and we thought it might be the ignition again.... we discussed the possibility of one of us going back to get help... but then we tried to check the gas... DOH! My motorbike still had some left, so Anders drove back to the town on my motorbike and got some gas (I'd bang him). Now we are back at Luang Namtha and wanna do 1 more trip to Muang Sing.

Laos! part 2

2006-06-04T10:31:00.000+02:00

OK!

I've had 10 great days with Anders and Bee, and today we parted with Bee.
We've gone from Luang Praban -> Phonsavan -> Nam Noen -> Muang Vieng Thong -> Nong Khiaw -> Udomxai -> Luang Nam Tha.

In Luang Praban we went around in the town and saw the night market and the temples. We also went to Pak Ou cave with a 2 hour boatride.
We tried to rent motorbikes but found out that it was impossible because there had been too many tourist accidents.
Then we went with bus to Phonsavan to see the Plain of Jars which is some fields with alot of giant stonejars that is of unknown origin.
The guesthouse we stayed in had alot of war junk... like machineguns, helmets, bazookas, grenades and mines... we had a fun night drinking there with a japanese girl and a korean guy... ^^
Then we went to Nam Noen... It was a little village with not alot to do... so we got some Laos beer and some Lao Lao... and ended up very, very.... not sober.
The reason why we ended up there is that there was no car coming by... so we had to stay there over night.
The next day we jumped on a car going to Muang Vien Thong where we saw the hot spring... and got some Laobeers again.
Then to Nong Khiaw, which is a little town by the river and with nice walks to the caves that were used as shelter during the indochina war.
Next day to Udomxai where we went to karaoke bar and watched football (Anders' idea, england-jamaica).
The next day we split up with Bee, and Anders and I went to Luang Nam Tha where I'm writing from now.
We just arranged some motorbikes, so... the next four days we're going to ride around the national park of Nam Ha.
We pay 4 dollars pr day... so thats pretty cheap :)
After 4 days in the jungle we will probably try to get towards Luang Praban again... because Anders is what I call a football idiot :D
Nah... It'll be fun to drink some beers and watch some whining men run around on a field and kick a plasticball :D
Well... I think we're gonna grab some beers and get some massage :)

Bye!

LAOS!

2006-05-24T11:25:00.000+02:00

Ahoy!

I'm now in Laos! More precise Vang Vien... I just want to give you an update on what the last week has been about :)

My trip to Halong Bay was nice, I saw a cave with limestone :) Visited Cat Ba (womens island) and did some kayaking near monkey beach.
I also got a nice full body massage in Cat Ba, together with the guide and a malaysian guy (name: Anso), in a place where you could choose wich of the girls you wanted a massage from... But I didn't like that... feels like prostitution or something... Anyway it was a good massage and she made all my bones in my body crack :)
Anso is from Sarawak in Borneo. He has a family guesthouse in Kuchin. If I have too much time after Laos I will probably go visit him there! :)

I got back to Hanoi and took the bus to Vientiane. Got to the Laos border at 6 in the morning and arrived in Vientiane around 3 o clock.
I got visa until 21. of June.
I went out to drink some Beerlao with an english guy called Thomas... and we had some political discussions.
This morning I took the bus to Vang Vien where I am now, and I LIKE IT!
Its so relaxed here, and people are really friendly. I have a nice bungalow with view of the river and the mountains in the background. I met some swedish people after I arrived and an english guy... gonna ask them to drink some Beerlao's or a "happy shake" with me tonight :)
I'm gonna order a busticket to Luang Praban, so I'll be there tomorrow. I'll probably be back here again and do the tubing (badering) down the river!
I'm looking forward to see Anders and Bee tomorrow, and travel with them and the mysterious malaysian guy Bee is bringing :D

Peace and love to y'all!

Dalat -> Hoi An -> Hanoi ! Love it!

2006-05-18T16:25:00.000+02:00

Hey!
I know it's been a long time since my last post... there's been so many things that has happened, so it felt kinda hard to sum up on it all... but now (after Gitte and Paliina's beautiful comments) I will try!
OK... So... my original plans I just threw away as soon as I came to Dalat. I had bought an open tour bus ticket, but decided to use an Easy Rider instead. Easy Riders is vietnamese guys with a motorbike that will drive you through the highland to places normal tourists never come.
HOOOKAY! soo.... I decided for a 6 days trip from Dalat to Hoi An. This trip brought me from Dalat through all the highland where the americans and the vietcons fought alot. I saw a volcanic lake, a silk worm farmer, a silk factory, a ricewine maker, a ricenoodle maker, a brick maker, a stone quarry, alot of rice pads and rice terrasses, french style villas, crazy house (a theme guest house made by a vietnamese architect educated in Moskow), a place where they gather iron leftovers from the war (exploded mines, bullets, grenades etc.), alot of monuments, pigfarmers, coffe plantages, pineapple plantages, black pepper platages, tea plantages, rubber tree plantages, cashew nut plantages, alot of beautiful waterfalls, alot of beautiful mountians included the famous breast shaped mountains (woman and girl size), the Ho CHi Minh trail, american built bridges, a music instrument maker, basket makers, a hunters village, and alot of friendly minority people of Vietnam!
Damn... hehe... don't think I even got it all in...
The ricenoodle maker wanted me to marry her daughter, and my driver "Phoung" said they would cook good food for me every day... hehe... but I got a bit scared :D Phoung also flirted with alot of the waitresses in every place we stayed, but they told him that they like "foreign banana" and not the somewhat smaller "vietnamese banana" :D HOHOHOOO great fun!
It was 6 beautiful days with Phoung and a swedish couple with their drivers Phoung's uncle and another guy. I talked alot of swedish, or... tried to... but I kept hearing myself the way my father's sisters always talk swedish... hehe :P
I filled a whole camera with pictures... But I forgot to bring the camera right now.

When I came to Hoi An I got a suit made! Hoi An is known for all their high quality tailoring, soo my suit is really nice!! :D Send it home to momma today in a package.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to Haolum Bay (not sure about spelling) for 3 days, and I'm gonna enjoy some sun there and the life in a boat. I'm also going kayakking and jungle trekking. I already ordered the bus ticket for Vietiane in Laos, so I'll leave Hanoi again tuesday.
I'm gonna meet up with Bee and Anders (from my study) in Luang Praban, and travel around Laos with them!
It's gonna be great to talk some danish again after 3 months with almost only english. And it's gonna be great to see Bee again, and maybe gain some of her great travel knowledge! :D

On my travel from Hoi An to Hanoi I had some waiting time in Hue... I went out looking for a post office and right away I met a guy that asked me where I was from... (you get that all the time from people that want to sell you something) well... he looked like a nice guy so I started the conversation with him. OK... he said that he had family in Denmark, and he was just waiting for his daughter to be finished from school. He wanted to eat some food with me, so that was fine for me. We went to a restaurant just outside the city center, and got some fried rice. He told me about his family in Denmark, and he knew a suprisingly lot about danish culture. We drank alot of beers and he paid the bill... He said that I could buy a bottle of whiskey as a gift for his wife. Well... I thought he ment vietnamese whiskey(about 2$), so no problem!
We went to a cafe and drank some more beers... a strange guy threw a cigarette bud after me and said some things in vietnamese... guess he was jealous or something :D
The beer we drank was Huda beer... Brewed by danish technology it said on the bottle, and the old guy told me that Hu- was for Hue and -da was for danish :D Sooo... practically a danish beer brewed in Hue... funny little world were living in! :D
The old guy paid again, so I insisted on buying his wife a bottle of whiskey! Hehe... stupid of me it wasn't vietnamese whiskey but some high class european whiskey he meant, so I ended up paying 500.000dong (150kr) for the whiskey... But well... I had a fun time with him :)
Then he drove me back to the bus office and I took the bus to Hanoi. I'm glad I made it back alive... because he drank more than me... and I was more than tipsy! :D

After 25 hours we arrived on the wrong side of the bridge... soo... there were alot of commision riders that wanted us to take a free taxi to their hotel in central of the city. I took a cab with 2 japanese guys and they as well as me just wanted to see the hotel and then maybe go to another place. The hotel was kinda crappy so I looked around for a better place. I found a great guesthouse 2 streets away with a really nice family, and with a room with a view to the street! I'm gonna stay there when I come back from Haulom Bay for sure! The wife of the family has a smile and laughter that reminds me of AC (my stepsister) so I felt at home at once :)
She cooked me breakfast and brought it to my room, I watched some sattelite television and saw Denmark loose to Malaysia in badminton (Lundgaard and Erikssen VS Koo and Chan).
Rest of the day I used mostly in front of the TV... I'm too tired to do anything after the 25 hours trip and the drinking on the half way :D

Now... Back to bed and get ready for sun, wind and water tomorrow! Lets hope the typhoon doesn't get down here, heard it's pretty bad near China.
Over and out!

HCMC - Saigon

2006-05-07T14:33:00.000+02:00

Hello people...

I know it's been some time since my last post... but I've been busy with exploring Ho Chi Minh City. This city is wild and crazy... I LIKE IT! There are sooo many motorbikes EVERYWHERE... If you want to pass the street just close your eyes and walk in a slow pace... they will avoid you, but if you get scared and do sudden movements they will probably hit you.
Well well well.. I've been out to see the Cu chi tunnels and tried crawling around in em... amazing that anyone could live in them. I also tried to shoot with an AK47... I just had to try it. Been to a lot of museums and seen alot of the historical buildings in Saigon. I don't really like the museums because they are really coloured of the kommunists and is a big bunch of propaganda. I guess the winners always write the history.
The prices here are very different... but there's always special prices for the foreigners... that means double or triple price.

I didn't bring my camera docking station... so there are no pictures this time... I have sooo many pictures, but I guess I will just have to show some of them when I get home.

The last couple of days I've been hanging out with a chinese girl called Min and a dutch girl called Michelle. They are very cool (hehe... lack of english words) and I've had a great time with them. We have our own seats at a EDEN bar inn Buin Vien street and get alot of free drinks from the bar because we're good customers :D
The people don't get angry when you don't wanna buy their chewing gum or cigarettes, like in Cambodia, and they are always smiling. This is a very nice country and you feel very safe.
There are kommunist flags everywhere... and big posters with Ho Chi Min, Stalin, Lenin and Karl Marx.

Tomorrow I go to Dalat with my open tour ticket, and there I will do some trekking in the mountains. After that I will go to Nha Trang and do some bathing, diving and try to get a tan again (too many big cities with aircon).

My big plans are Laos in 2-3 weeks, but other than that I will just take it hour by hour.

I hope you are all doing well, and a big congratulation to my grandmother who is now from 4. may 95 years old (I hope I'm right about the number)

I will try to get some pictures on sometime soon... just to get te big picture... so many things is happening.

From Thailand to Chaosbodia! -part 2

2006-05-03T10:53:00.000+02:00

I'm doing great... Though I'm still working on the culture shock I got from crossing the Thailand-Cambodia border. This country is SICK I tell you SIIICK. This is the most corrupt place I've ever been. Kids selling drugs, police selling their badges as souvenir, military letting tourists shoot with their weapons and lots of mass graves. I've been here for 4-5 days and I'm already fed up with: "sir... whats your name... where u goin... want tuktuk???" and "sir... give me money please!"
Well well... I enjoyed the Ankor Wat and all the other temples near Siem Reap (= Siam defeated).
The day before yesterday I sat down in a local restaurant here in Phnom Penh and ordered a beer and some food... The waitress didn't understand 1 word... soo... I just pointed at the "Ankor" sign, and she nodded... Then she came with a giant jug of beer... and not a glass as I had thought... hehe.. guess there were 4-5 normal beers in that jug :D They were all laughing at me when I got the jug of beer, and 2 guys sitting next to me was talking about me I'm sure... I started writing some postcards and drank the beer. Well well... Then a guy came up to me and said "roastbeef" YES PLEASE! hehe... so I got some roastbeef with some vegetables and leaves and some lime and pepper/salt-mix. Good good... I was done eating and halfways through the jug when a driver from Siem Reap sat down next to me and ordered some food and beer. He wanted to cheer with me all the time and wanted me to eat some of his food. I was already full and a bit tipsy but I didn't want to be inpolite and he insisted on me tasting his food. He was talking to the two other guys and they were cheering with me also... Shiit... now the weird part comes... then he made some sign language and said "you... me... sleep... my room..." ... and... typically me I thought I just missunderstood him... so... I just ignored it... Then I was done with my beer and the beer he had given me and I wanted to leave... He wanted to pay my bill... Shiiit! NO WAY... I threw a 5 dollar bill to his side of the table. Then another guy from the other table came over... took the 5 dollar bill and gave it in my hand... "you... him... sleep"... fuuuck... heheh... well then I explained him that I was going to my own guesthouse to sleep right now... and thanked him for the dinner and left... VERY weird night... but afterwards pretty fun :)
I'll get the visa for Vietnam today and tomorrow I'm going to Ho Chi Minh City... Dunno about the next plans... I'll take 1 day at the time.

Here are some pictures!

The border to Cambodia, very crowded... I was there before 8 in the morning but still alot of people!

The road situation in Cambodia is not the best... 5 hours shaking and bumping and very baaad sleep.

The german couple I shared a Camry with to Siem Reap and shared a tuktuk with to Ankor Wat and the other temples...
Chris and Katje

Me and the Wat :)

I have soo many pictures of the temples... but I will keep them on my camera... because this is taking a shitload of internet time.

The little rats are constantly begging for money... hehe... nah...just kidding they're sweet and clever.

This is too much... now I've used 5 hours on writing blogger and uploading images... I'm gonna take a break.. so you will have to wait for the pictures of massgraves and drunk cambodian men coming on to me :D Bye!

From Thailand to Chaosbodia!

2006-05-03T07:23:00.000+02:00

One of the last nights in Bankok we went to the highest tower and had a drink on the top :)

Bee on the top

It was a nice view!

Me with a Kamikaze (drink)

Vietnamese restaurant we went to that night.

The food! mmmm...

Soi Cowboy... the red light district in Bankok.

breakfast at a vegetarian restaurant

Me.... in Grand Palace Bankok...

Bee drew a small shrine in Grand Palace... I took a series of pictures of her drawing since I can't draw.

Done!

The real thing.

The wierd guy behind me keeps laughing at this picture so I'll put it on... yeah I had a haircut and NOOO it doesn't look like that now... this is before they styled it.

Cruise dinner on a boat going up and down Bankok river.

Fear and loathing Bankok!

2006-04-23T13:47:00.000+02:00

I'm still enjoying Bankok alot!

I've been to all the cool places, and learned alot of Bee.

There has been so many experiences and I have a hard time differing the days from eachother, so this blogger may not be in a chronological order.

We went to a japanese restaurant called Fuji. Really nice food, and good to get some sushi again!

Later same evening we went to a bar called Hippie Bar on Khao San Rd. I played pool against some thai guys... won 1 lost 1... Actually I was quite lucky to win... shh... :)

We went on a tuk tuk ride to Bee's place, a really nice villa in the middle of Bankok.

Me, blogging in Bee's room

We went out shopping to make some thai food, and wanted to buy some wine but...

This friendly guy told us to read the sign infront of us that said: "No sale of alcohol the day before election" ... so... no wine for us.

So... we started the cooking, Bee taught me how to make Chicken Cashewnut and Red curry Pangan.

The result! It was very good... Very good indeed!

In the bus on the way to Ancient Garden...
My new T-shirt! (wauw for en dufthat)

On the way I saw this giant statue of a three headed elephant!

Ancient garden scenery

Statue of 2 Naga's crashing a house.

Temple in Ancient Garden.

We went out to eat sushi again. Beautiful!
Hot Sake with the food... mmm...

Kampei! (we met this japanese guy in the restaurant)

Sukiyaki with some friends of Bee. Really good food, and nice to cook together in a restaurant :D

Bowling... one tie and 2 wins for me... MUAHAHHAAA

Karaoke!

Me, singing "Offspring - Pretty fly"

Michael learns to rock... famous in DK in the 90'es ... now famous in Asia :)

Ice skating in Bankok... CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!?

Hip hop night club called Astra

Dancer in the night club

Night club in Pat Pong... we went to see the Ping-Pong show... HILARIOUS! but... you can't take pictures there... sorry guys! I saw smoking pussy, razorblade pussy, nails pussy, blowpipe pussy, pussy blowing out candle lights and the ping pong pussy... Enough pussy to make me smile the rest of the night :)

Bee and I in the Pat Pong night club

We also went to a Katoy(boygirl) show in a bar in Pat Pong

Another picture of the Katoy-show

We went to a posh thai restaurant today, really good food and a nice river-view.

The view!

The food, massaman curry vegie and with chicken.

More food, deep fried grouper and some noodle dish.

I bought an amulet in the amulet marked today...

The amulet! I like it alot :)

The group of people I was with today. From left: Cheeva(Elizabeth), Bee, Diane, Raj and me.

My beard was getting a bit long, so I went to the barber shop today... Same barber shop as the ex-primeminister used to go to :)

Watch out with that knife!!!

Finally I went to seek visa for Cambodia. I'm getting it tomorrow night... so the day after tomorrow I'm on the road again!

Bankok!

2006-04-19T10:47:00.000+02:00

I was on Ko Lipe... fantastic... Then I went to Ko Pha Ngan... PARTYYY! (full moon)
I lost my camera... so no photos.

Now I bought a new camera... really fuckin nice one indeed... but I forgot the cable for the camera at my guest house... so here comes some pictures from Bee's camera!

I met Bee in the queue to the ferry from Pha Ngan to Surathani. She was also going to Bankok and had been on Pha Ngan holiday.
We talked alot in the boat and got on the same bus to Bankok. The last couple of days she has shown me around in Bankok.
When we arrived in bk she found me a guesthouse called Riverline guest house, its really cheap and pretty nice with an inside garden. The next day she took me to a amulet marked, a really cool cinema with large sofa-chairs... sooo fuckin nice! We saw Ice Age 2 a really funny animated movie.

Discovery cinema with the cool seats!

The same day we also went to feed some fish outside a buddhist temple... You can't fish there, so people come to feed them there. An environmental biologist would faint in the thought of all the uetrophy they are causing.

FEED ME FEED ME!

Later we went to a restaurant called BED supperclub. Really cool theme... You actually eat in a bed! :D

Me in the bed... Dinner was really nice... French cuisine mixed with thai food.

Bee was camerashy, so this is the only picture you'll get! :D

Yesterday we went to Wat Po to get a thai massage in the massage school... Uhmmm! and then we went to eat sushi in a restaurant called Fuji! Later we went to the Hippie bar on Khao San road, and i played pool against some thai boys. Fun night! I have the pictures on my own camera, so they'll be on the blogger later.

I'm gonna stay here in BK for some more time! I really like the city now that I have someone to show me around.
Next stop is cambodia I think...

Perhentian Kecil!

2006-03-31T13:27:00.000+02:00

Hey hey!

I've had a very lazy day today... Came back from Perhentian Islands yesterday with alot of good memories in my bag.

After spending a night in Jerantut David and I took the jungletrain to Wakaf Bahru. It took 9 very hot hours with bugs flying in the window constantly. It was nice to be able to see the jungle, but after 3 days of only jungle I wanted rather to read my book.
From Wakaf Bahru we took a cab to Kota Bahru... we went to the night marked and got some food. We stayed at the KB backpackers lodge, wich was fine, and only 8RM per person.

The next day we got a cab for the pier in Kota Besut, and got a boat to Perhentian Kecil.
We wanted to stay at long beach, because its the place with the best "babes" and the cheapest bungalows.
It was a paradise... I was speachless for the first couple of hours... postcard beautiful beach and alot of beautiful sunbathing girls!
We found out that the Rockgarden bungalows were only 15RM for 2 persons... so we got that. It was without fan and electricity... but check the view!

We had some nice days with diving, I dived with Arnout from the trekking as my buddy. The whole trekking group met up and we had alot of partying at night at the palm tree cafe 2. My diving was the first day in "D. Lagoon" and second day in Temple of the sea and Sugar wreck. Temple of the sea was a cone formed rock/mountain in the middle of the sea with lots of triggerfish, clownfish, bamboo sharks and other animals... beautiful dive. The Sugar wreck was very bad vissibility (viz) but it was an amazing 70 meters long wreck with some swimthroughs and alot of lionfish and snappers... and alot of sleeping bamboo sharks.

I was honoured Knight Of The Orang Utan, which was the liqour we were drinking. It was the Ice Princess aka Claudin who knighted me... she was great fun!

The famous bottle!

Anna och Maria doing the Orang Utan!

I met a real nice girl called Trisha, but she was going to dive the day after so she left pretty early. We agreed to meet up at Ko Lipe in Thailand... so I hope I'm gonna meet her there.

On the picture: Claudin, Aga, Trisha, me and Remko.

The american guy I travelled with (David) he one night let a cat into our room... I told him that they could have diseases and fleas or tics or so... so he threw the cat out again... the next day I woke up he said... Soren look here... and he had 4 cats sleeping in his bed... the 3 of them couldn't see yet. So... the next 2 days he was taking care of the cats.

After 4 days on the island I decided to go back to Kota Bahru for the sultans birthday.
I kinda miss the island now, but I'll soon be on another island(Ko Lipe) so I just have to be patient.

Our bungalow is somewhere up in the trees there.

Today in Kota Bahru David and I went for a walk... David wanted to take a picture of some muslim girls sitting in a circle. We started talking to them and ended up spending 1/2 an hour with them. They were preparing a presentation in english about some questions they had asked the tourists. I talked about the Muhammed Carricatures with them, and they wanted me to write my opinion down.... I did... but it was very hard for me... there is so much stupidity involved in that case so all I jotted down was some american-like bullshit (like... we all have to be friends and stuff)... But they liked it, so that was fine.

Now I'm gonna grab something to eat... its 20.05 and I only had 1 meal today. (chinese food is greasy!)
I hope you're all doing well at home and all the bullshit you normally write in the end of a letter ;)

JUNGLETREKKING NOW!

2006-03-25T03:44:00.000+01:00

(its morning... I'm waking up... going to the window)
"KL... Still in fucking KL... When I'm here I wanna be in the jungle, when I'm in the jungle I wanna be back here."

Hehe... So I decided to go to Taman Negara!
At the hostel I lived... excactly when I finished my last post, this american guy called David asked me if I was also going to TN. I said: "yeah sure"... so he suggested that we took the local bus instead of the arranged bus... This was a great idea because it was about 5 times cheaper.
We came to Kuala tahan which is one of the border cities to Taman Negara. David had talked with 2 guys from Holland(Remko and Arnau) that wanted to do some trekking too... we couldn't find them when we arrived. We went around to find out what the prizes and routes for trekking were here, and at last we found a Chinese guy called "Man". He was sleeping in a swing when we found him and we woke him up and asked if he was a tour guide. Man was alot of fun, and very honest about the prize, AND... he agreed to take a trek with us that noone had done in 2,5 years and he had only done twice in the 10 years he had been a guide there. The reason we wanted that was so we wouldn't meet alot of other tourists on our trekking tour.
Man said that he needed some Orang Asli boys to guide us, because they knew the track better than him. Orang Asli(the Asli people) are the aborigines of Taman Negara.
Now we were 4.. but we needed 2 more, or else Man wouldn't get enough salary for the trek... so.. Man found 2 french guys(matthieu and Niclas) that agreed to go on the trek.

Group picture (from left: Matthieu, Arnau, Remko, Niclas and me)

Next morning at 9 o clock we met up near the river, ate some breakfast and packed our backpacks with food and water. We took a river boat down to a Orand Asli village.

Orang Asli kids

There they had a show for the tourists... which was kinda awkward because I don't wanna be that kind of tourist... but it was nice though. They made fire and darts for their blowpipes and we got to try the blowpipes on a target(skydeskive).

Orang Asli making fire

Alrright... LETS GO! We went into the jungle, with 2 of the Orang Asli boys from the village. Orang Asli are africans that migrated to this jungle 50.000 years ago. They are not so tall, actually about the size of malaysians with the looks of africans.
We trekked for 5-6 hours and came to a mountain we wanted to climb... it was 530 meters high, and when I got to the top(as the first) my pulse was 180 I think :D We took a group picture, but one of the french guys was not in it because it was too hard for him to climb it.
Then we went to the camp in the middle of the jungle near the Yong river.
We set up our tent and cooked some food. Then it started raining... heavy rain. We made some dams to lead the water away from our tent and that helped a bit. We were a bit tired, but it was nice to get to a place with no liches.
After our dinner our guide Man almost stepped on a scorpion, so that was pretty amazing... beautiful creature!

We woke up about 7 o clock when the sun came up...

(I love the smell of rotting blood in the morning... smells like... VICTORY... some day this trek is gonna end)

-had some peanutbutter sandwiches and started trekking again. Because there had been rain the day before there were 10 times as many liches. It was a hell... but as long as you don't panic its nothing to worry about... one of the french guys were almost crying in panic... The Orang Asli boys had no problems with the liches... they just took a stick and once in a while removed the liches from there bare legs. I did the same. It worked fine... I only got about 10 bites that day.
We saw a gibbon fleeing in the canopy and then we saw the Orang Asli's that tried to hunt it... I guess we scared the gibbon away.. but I'm not sure. Man knew the Orang Asli, it was a father and a son from the village we went to the day before.
We finally came to the camp... it was next to a waterfall so we bathed, washed our clothes from blood and mud and enjoyed the hole in the jungle with sun.
Lovely evening... then came the rain!!
It rained for 2-3 hours and our camp got flooded... I had chosen a strategically good place to put my sleeping bag, so I didn't get so wet... but some of the other... oh maan... Must have been a terrible night.
Well well... next morning we dried our clothes over the campfire and then went off after breakfast. Last day... so people were really tired. Liches everywhere, wet boots because the rivers were higher than normal because of the rain. Man said that he didn't want to remove the liches this day because it was healthy to loose some blood... hehe... nasty sight.

We came back after an 11 kilometers walk, exhausted... we found a dorm room, got a bath and then went to Man's place to get some chicken satay and yam juice. It was nice finally eating some meat again after 3 days with noodles.
Later same night we went to a restaurant with Man and he ordered some fish. The fish was in the catfish family and lived in the river we were on(floating restaurant). Lovely meal!

Today I'm back in Jerantut... David and I are gonna take the jungle train to Wakaf bahut and from there a taxi to Kota Bahru... there we're gonna stay one night and move on to Perhentian island.

I'm trying to upload as many pictures as possible... but it takes 5-7 mins for each picture and I only have very short time before the train leaves.

Best regards to all of you at home!

KL ---> Taman Negara!

2006-03-20T05:16:00.000+01:00

Mjello maites!

This morning I decided that I want to leave KL... It's a busy city with lots of possibilities, but it's also very stressful.

In KL I went to Menara (Sky tower) which is the 4th highest tower in the world. It's placed on a hill and from there you can look down on Petronas towers (the twin towers made of steel). It was amazing... totally high tech... When I got up the elevator I was met by a beutiful malay woman that gave me some headphones on and a little tv-screen... when i moved around the tower I could hear details about the view :D
The sunset from the tower is supposed to be really beautiful, but I was cloudy :( No matter, beautiful anyways!

I also went to a park near Chinatown where there was a guy feeding the monkeys... there must have been 30 or something... amazing... the were crawling all around me and I got to feed them some of my lunch. I went to a bench with a roof over it and read in my book... fell asleep... read some more... fell asleep.. read some more and so on :D "Crime and Punishment" is a very exiting book, but sometimes it's exhausting for me to read.
When I went back it started to rain... not just rain like in DK ... it started to MOTHERF***ING RAIN! ... soo... what did clever Soeren do... I just walked home... heh... I thought that you can't get any more wet than wet... but I forgot all about the travel documents and the things I got in my bag. Sooo... now my "Lonely planet" is almost ruined... I can still use it, but its falling apart.

In KL I slept at "Lee Mun Guest House", it was exactly like the hostel Leonardo Dicaprio stayed in in the movie "The Beach"... exactly... there were magazine clips everywhere on the walls and a very strange hostel-man... The people there were also weird... there was a 30 year old woman thin as an anorectic and with 3-4 tarantulas tattoed different places on her body... there was a 35 year old man that looked like he had been in that hostel since the sixties and alot of chinese and malay people. The guest house was nice and clean, and there was free tea and DVD-movies in the evening. Gareth (the NZ guy I travelled with for 4 days) left for Singapore, he had some work to do there. He went to the Formula 1 both of the days, but you know me... I don't give a s*** for watching sports... and especially not motorsports... for me sports is something you do for your own amusement... not for sitting in your couch with a beer and some crisps like some stereotype men do.

Hehe... I'm amazed if youre still reading... I've got 7 hours I need to spend... so thats why I'm letting out so much crap :D

From KL I'm taking a train to Jerantut, arriving at 2am, and there I will try to fall asleep in the train station... and next morning take a boat or car to the jungle. Finally I get to use the trekking shoes I borrowed from Nete :D There are alot of different treks from there, some for half an hour others for 9 days. I think there might be river rafting and jungle-fishing... so that will be exiting!

I wanted to put some pictures of KL in this blogger, but I forgot the cable for my camera.

******NOW WITH PICTURES

A temple in KL... nothing special... they were everywhere... just thought it looked nice!

Menara (Sky tower) viewed from The golden triangle.

******

This will be the last post in awhile I guess, because there is probably no internet in the jungle ^^

Ok... my time is up... now I will go get some insect repellent and some noodles!

Bye bye, don't forget to leave a comment!

SCUBAAAAA!

2006-03-18T06:22:00.000+01:00

Here are some pictures from my SCUBA experience!

Briefing before dive the guy in the red shirt is Gareth a kiwi im travelling with right now. He's at the formula 1 race right now while im sitting in the aircondition and listen to "Michael learns to rock".

Me, swimming behind the hawkbill sea turtle

Some pictures of the marine life i saw:

Blue spottet ray

Cuttlefish

Lionfish

Moray eel

Stonefish

Porcupine fish

Tioman ---> Kuala Lumpur

2006-03-18T04:52:00.000+01:00

Hello people!

I have had 3 beautiful weeks in Pulau Tioman, but now I'm in Kuala Lumpur.

This is how my trip has been:
I decided that Singapore was too much big city for me, so I went to JB(Johor Bahru) to find a bus to Mersing. When I was in JB i decided to stay one more night in my hostel in Singapore but first I wanted to see some of the city.
I walked out to the palace wich lies near to the waterfront and a malay couple where taking their marriage pictures there. It was beautiful... maybe because it was a great contrast to the extremely polluted JB.

Well... back to my hostel I went and the next day i wanted to go to Tioman.

On the train to JB there were some girls that kept taking pictures of me and giggled... I took my revenge.

It was very easy to find a bus in JB, because the malay people in general are very friendly.
There was an old muslim couple that took care of my luggage while I found something to eat in the busstation.

The journey to Mersing took about 3 hours... and then 2 hours with the ferry. Then I arrived to ABC village! It was dark when I arrived, and the 6 swedish guys travelling together had taken the dorm room so i got my own bungalow for the same prize! :D

Here is a picture of one of the families that owns Johans resort.

The next days I used for trekking and playing soccer with the kids... The first trek I wanted to walk was a very short one... I thought... so I decided not to bring any water. VERY STUPID. I ended up in monkey beach dehydrated and then i found out it was a longer way to finish the trek than walk back. I got some water from some english skinnydippers that were sunbathing there and walked home again delerius and soaked in sweat. I came back to Panuba bay and the first restaurant i got to I bought some water... hehe... the girl in the shop looked funny at me... no wonder... I was shaking and soaked.

I did another trek a couple of days later with lots of water and some energy-bars and that turned out to be a better idea.
Pictures from the trek to Juara:

I found a tree named after my littlesister Laura :)

After my trekking I decided that I wanted to start SCUBA-diving...

I found a club nearby called B&J.

Heres a picture of Raj... he is a divemaster in B&J. He's a great guy with lots of diving experience. I had 6-7 dives with him and alot of nights in the bar :D

Here's a picture of Sarah and me... Sarah is also a divemaster and a loads of fun! At that moment we were drinking a drink called "Sarah's Juicy Pussy"(baileys, rum and pineapple juice) because it was her birthday.

When we were diving it was always like Raj would say: "SARAH! Youre loud on the boat and you're loud when you come home!" and Sarah would answer: "RAJ! Youre miserable on the boat and youre miserable when you come home!" HAHA... so much fun!

Here's a picture of my diving instructor Denis. He's a french guy with a funny accent and so much humor! He took me on some wreck dives and some deep dives and I wrote on my slade "THIS IS SO FUCKING NICE" then he gave me hi five and we continued... hehe perfect dive!

I also did some dives with two swedish guys called Emil and Mikael, we did some trekking together aswell

I also met a great finnish couple called Patka and Paulina, Patka is the former drummer of the finnish band called HIM. I did 2 dives together with Paulina, but Patka had hangovers so he couldn't come. They learned me some finnish words as: VITUM PERKELA! or VITUM KUSIJA! They have invited me to come visit them in Helsinki some time and try some Helsinki night clubs and sauna's :D

Here's a picture of one of my favourite persons! FENDIII!!! :D He's a bartender in the bar I used to hang out in. Everytime I came up to the bar a cold beer was allready waiting for me. There was banana cakes and prawn crackers in the bar and most of the people from the dive club hang out there for a sunset-beer before dinner and a couple of beers after dinner. (I didn't bring the danish flag there)

Bye bye Tioman ;-(

I had a great time in Tioman! I did my Open Water course and then the Advanced Open water course... then I did 11 fun dives... so now I have 20 dives... I didn't buy an underwater case for my camera, so I haven't taken any underwater pictures. BUT... there was a photographer from B&J that was with us on some of the trips... Pictures from diving is in the blog above!

Zoo today!

2006-02-18T13:10:00.000+01:00

Today i was in the Zoo :)
The Singapore Zoo is alot larger than the danish Zoo, and they've got more primates than any other Zoo. Here's a selection of the pictures I took... my hands were a bit shaky i can see... gotta smoke some more then ;)

Gibbon

Orang Utan (how its spelled here)

Komodo varan

White Tigers

Tomorrow I think I will go to Malaysia... more precise Johor Bahru... its a 4 hours drive from here and theres an airport with domestic flights from there... It will be my startout point in Malaysia. All the people I talked with have left, so now there are only some annoying english people... hehe... so I need to leave!

Wow... This is the coolest thing I have ever done!!! :D

2006-02-17T14:49:00.000+01:00

This is sooo nice, I really like it here... Everything is so clean and its really easy being a backpacker.
My hostel only charges 10S$ per night, around 45kr and thats including breakfast.

I had a really good guided tour around the city thursday with my mom and her friend Jette. Jette is from Hong Kong so she's been here alot of times.

We met at the Raffles city center near the City Hall station, here's a picture from the mall

After i parted with mom and Jette I went to a park in the middle of the city. It was almost like a botanical garden with many special trees and with signposts with historical information.
(a picture of a leaf... FROM 1 METER DISTANCE!)

My hangovers tonight made my jetlag even worse because you can't sleep much in the heat, but thats OK, I LOOOVE THIS! When I was on my way back from the internet cafe wedensday I met 2 danish girls called Isobel and Lynne(cover names), I heard them talking danish and then I just started the conversation from there. They are really sweet and fun, so we agreed to meet for a beer yesterday evening in their hostel. We did... and then a guy from South Africa called Julian or "Jew" came with some redwine and made some traditional SA-food (long beans and potatoes) tasted alot better than it sounds :D He's called Jew because its easy to tell his name that way to chinese people (Jew is pig in chinese *not kidding*).

A little later 2 danish guys called Jonas and Anders heard my name and started a conversation, they joined our drinking :) Then 3 english guys from Manchester City came in with beers and "Fenny" (some asian spirit pronounced "fanny") Sooo... they wanted to start a drinking game... Danes are never saying no to drinking games so we joined them! It was a game I've played some times in Denmark, and you have to make up rules if you pull an ace... The rules that came were:
1. Drink with you left hand or you will have to stay crosseyed until its you turn again
2. Always say "Roed groed med floede before drinking.
3. Always say "I love england" after saying "Roed Groed med Floede"
Don't remember the last rule... (from left to right: Isobel(Mia), Julian, Ben, Kevin, Gary, Lynne(Nina) and Jonas)It was a very fun night and we got to use the word "Fenny" alot... "How do you like your Fenny?" "Gary has had too much Fenny tonight" "No more Fenny ever" "I can still smell Fenny in my mouth" hehehe...

Here's a picture of a Andrew, the French Canadian i met when I arrived. We had some very nice talks about politics and religion, and he advices me not to lay under for the fear of muslims he says that it is much worse for him because asian people usually don't like blacks... and you can't hide that!

Today Isobel, Lynne, Aurelien and I went to the Chinatown. It was an amazing experience of beautiful colours and smell that just hit you when you exit the MRT(metrostation). Isobel bought a watch that they later named after me *blush* =)
But it was only 1 little street that made out the must beatiful part of Chinatown so we agreed to go to the underground mall connected to Raffles.

On the way to Raffles we ran in to some rain(read: a fucking lot)... It was extreme... Never seen rain like this. Luckily we could walk on indoor gangways alot of the way (the Singaporeans are brilliant).

We went through the underground city mall to the Esplanade where the concert halls are... The concert halls look soo cool I think :D

I followed the girls to the station... they were going to melbourne, and went home to sleep for 4 hours. I needed that very much!

Thats all i guess... oh... yeah... I also got an express haircut... 10 minutes and 10$... And with freezing cold aircondition. It was really compact... there was a closet for bags behind the mirror and under the chair there was a room they could sweep the hair in ^^

As I promised here's the result, the girls said I look like David Ove... who ever that is...

Im there mayn!

2006-02-15T16:45:00.000+01:00

OK! Now I'm finally there... Singapore! Damn its hot... phew...
I really like it here, I've found a dorm called Prince of Wales it's kinda messy but really cheap :)

The airport was really beautiful... and it had the craziest escalators I've ever seen!

I also took a picture of the metro... but I accidentally deleted it when I wanted to edit this picture... DOH :D

There are 2 other guys sleeping in the same room, I met them when I arrived... and we talked for like 1 hour :) They are nice, 1 of them is called Andrew and is a french canadian the other is french.
We talked about Danes going to Indonesia, and they said they really don't think its that bad.. so we'll see :D

Heres a picture of my bed

I really need a haircut, so there will be no pictures of me until that is done :D
Going back to get a beer at my hostel before the bar closes... got 5 mins ^^

Love it!

Billeder fra i sommers, fra mit arbejde i DR byen

2006-02-07T00:34:00.000+01:00

Hejsa!
Nu er der ikke så længe til jeg skal afsted!
Jeg vil lige vise jer nogle billeder fra Koncertsalen :)

Michael og jeg udenfor koncersalen.

Opgangen til foyeren

Udsigt fra foyeren

Kælderen under koncertsalen

Det store studie (studie 2)

Under en måned til :D

2006-01-15T22:03:00.000+01:00

ok... Nu er der under en måned!

Det der er sket siden sidst er at jeg har:

1. fundet en til at overtage min lejlighed
2. fundet en til at overtage mit job
3. købt mig en rygsæk
4. fået en masse rejsebøger
5. er blevet vaccineret første gang (Hepatitis A+B + japansk hjernehindebetændelse)
6. sat et nyt bad op i lejligheden (helt selv)
7. stoppet min World of Warcraft konto

Mangler:
1. malariapiller
2. vaccination 2. gang
3. sætte ting på loftet
4. købe nogle goe vandrestøvler
5. pakke rygsæk
6. læse noget mere om sydøstasien
7. få helt styr på økonomien

Jeps... det var vidst det hele :D Nu er der bare tilbage at glæde mig :)

Min første post!

2006-01-02T23:59:00.000+01:00

Dette er min første post :)

Der er 1½ måned til jeg skal afsted! :D

Kan fanme ikke vente, det blir så syret.

14. februar tager jeg til Singapore!

Over and out