Envoi n°15

Episode n°57 : bloody hell 1 ! [bloodyhell1.doc]
krabi (thailand) => penang (malaysia) => padang besar (malaysia)
08/06/08 => 23/06/08

Pays :Thaïlande et Malaisie (cliquer ici pour accéder à une carte)
km parcourus depuis Grenoble (FRANCE) : 14 109 km (Krabi)

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john has been my english teacher for these 10 days, carrying on together. this short page is supposed to train myself and to use some of the new words he teached me... would you be able to recognize which ones are new knowledge, whish ones are not...?

moreover, i m going to talk about him in this page, sometimes, trying to take a piss about the situation we had to face. so, to be fair, i ve choosen to write it like that.

leaving krabi.

after a quite long break in town, and a lot of patsi-i-ow meals,  john and me are heading south. the monsoon rain joins us every day and never at the same moment, but finally, we have successfully avoided it, each time it was pissing down. under any kind of shelter (restaurant or bus-stop), we had time to share experience about cycling, being scuffy cycler, traveling for a long time, feeling dizzy sometimes and meeting lots of people on the way... we enjoy as well this time to take a nap !

drinking lao-whisky with burman-sailors on a thai-boat.

as soon we ve found a place with a shelter to spend the night next to the ocean, we had to look for food. unfortunately, it  was a desert area there. but finally a dozen of burman-sailors invited us to have dinner with them on their boat. perfect ! like a wish that sould suddenly become reality ! to thank them, we ve given them the last bottle of "liqueur de chartreuse" brought by joe when she has comen. they ve let us taste  some lao-lao, the local-whisky from lao : very strong, very bad !

hosted by the farting monk.

despite our plan to reach on early afternoon our camp place on the beach, we had to wait for the end of the daily shower due to the monsoon season. finally, we stopped at night and have asked to the monk for the permission to sleep close to their temple. they kindly invited us to stay on their terrace and offered us some coffee and snacks. that s how we met the farting monk, which had maybe tried to explain them many interesting things with his body-language... unfortunately, we were unable to speak as fluently as him with this language..!

for the last night in Thailand, we ve planned to sleep few km before the border. We slept there, without being sure to be close to the border. Neither the map, neither the signs on the road were providing enough informations for us to be sure. According to thai law, it was my last day allowed in the kingdom… stressful morning ! but quiet night in the jungle !

crossing an unknown border in "thale ban national park".

the next days, we kept the same rythm : heading to the south, sleeping on the bush, looking for the border. we ve reached one but not the expected one. luckily, it was allowed for foreigner to cross it and 10 minutes later, we ve our 90 days-long permission to stay in malaysia !!

12th kilometer in Malaysia.