"Entering a new world" "Koh Tao" means "Turtle Island", but there are in fact no turtles left there. The island is today one of the most known scuba diving places in the world, with people coming there from near and far to see the beautiful marine life, but maybe most of all, inexperienced divers come to get their scuba diving license. I am one of those inexperienced ones. I had never done a single dive in my life, and I was loo...

"Bangkok" Crossing the border to Thailand turned out to be really easy. After almost fighting with the woman giving out the entry cards, we got inside, and waited the 45 minutes of tourists going through the only two counters open to foreign passport holders. At the many open for Thai people, there was no line. Paul and I started talking to a girl from our bus, and it turned out she was from Ukraine. She had been to Bangkok already, and knew a cheap ...

"The mighty Angkor" Ever since I saw pictures of the Angkor temples I have been wanting to go there. When my grandma went there and took a DVD back home, it did not exactly give me less of a longing for the mystical and enormous temple ruins in the middle of the Jungle. As I mentioned in the previous blog post; the Angkor temples were one of my two target-destinations on this trip. (The other one is Machu Picchu.) For anyone attending any of Mr. Stev...

Phnom Penh In Phnom Penh we had only one day, and we wanted to spend it well. After breakfast we hired a TukTuk for the whole day. This turned out to be a great idea. We got to see a lot of the city, and many beautiful areas between the horrors we saw at the different museums documenting the crimes of the Khmer Rough. The driver took us to S21 first. S21 used to be a high school before the Khmer Rouge gained power after the revolution, but today it is called...

"Twenty was really the number of the day" The day was Saturday, the date was the 14th in the month of February. This day was special in many ways. I woke up in a bungalow on high pillars above the Mekong River. I stumbled out of bed and laid down in the hammock on the deck. It was early in the morning, and I watched the sky go from pink to blue. The sunrise was on the other side of the island, but I have seen a few sunrises, and I knew that with ...