Forza Italia in Thailand

The trip in southeast Asia continues. We left Malaysia accompanied by fellow travellers Steven and Kim from Belgium (http://stevenenkim.blogspot.com/) and literally walked into Thailand. Travelling here is a mix between the struggle to find transport, the hassle to negotiate the price (you can bet we fight for every Baht!) and the adventure to explain the final destination. Luckily it's not always that difficult. We travelled quite a lot through Singapore, Malaysia and now Thailand by train. Not only are the air-conditioned wagons extremely comfortable, it supplies us some great panoramas and it is a great opportunity to meet people. (We remark that walking through the train is not advised as the doors are a swinging-open invitation to fall out).

Travelling by train: as beautiful as it is

This time we met three crazy Italian beauties, who were 'as a coincidence' travelling in the same direction. We decided to bundle our forces and share as many túk-túks as possible. We checked out their physical capacities (don't get us wrong) by taking them to the Tiger Temple neer Krabi, where they had to step up more than 1300 steps under burning sun rays. They succeeded the test and so we invited them to join us to the Ko Phi Phi island.

Traditional pose (?)

Now, Ko Phi Phi is something different. Let's say it's an island where palmtrees were waving on steep rocks, where coral-blue waves were flirting with blissful white beaches and where a guy named Leonardo Di Caprio came to smoke some big pot in the movie "The Beach". The latter automatically transformed the island in a mekka for tourists, so things changed. Palmtrees are waving next to plastic bags, coral-blue waves are filled up with empty bottles and tourists are flirting during huge parties on the beaches.

 LTR: Fran, Tiger, PIMP and Vermicelli

 The Leo effect

However, Forza Italia-Belgium booked a boat and we drifted around the nearby islands, looking for footprints of Leo. As Simona (aka miss Vermicelli), Laura (aka miss Tiger) and Fran (aka miss Heart) were responsible for some bikini action on the front of the boat, we snorkled around and gifted ourselves with another layer of tan.  [no pictures available]

Officially we didn't party, we didn't sweat and we didn't even learn new Italian bad words.
Up to you to believe us or not. Ciao!