Thailand

Hello everyone!

Before talking about my stay in Thailand, I would like to apologize for leaving you uninformed all these days. I've been enjoying my time and therefore left the blog "unupdated". I'm sure you will understand and forgive me.

So, I left Laos after healing from the dengue fever. I was relieved. Laotian doctors were "threatening" me saying I will be sent to Bangkok or back home. Arghhh! Finally I did great and I'm now able to continue traveling as before.

I went to Phuket to meet some friends. We spent a week together. It was great! No more lonely dinners, no more conversations with the mirrors. I had company! It felt great!
Moreover, they were organizing excursions which I usually don't do as too expensive for my backpack budget. Actually I had a week of holidays inside my holidays :) nice hotels, nice food, nice beaches, great company... What else?

As I was in Thailand, I decided to do my Advanced diving certification. It was a good thing! Not the best dives of my life, I can say it, but the experience was great. Deep dives, hovering skills, naturism (no, it doesn't mean you dive naked... Even if I thought it... Actually, it's recognizing fishes and corals underwater). So now, I can move forward and keep diving. I have several ideas: wreck dive, deep dive, fun dive. Possibilities are great and various.

Few words about Thailand: subjects love their King, more than English people love William and Kate. Roads are in very good state, really. There are no beggars in the street. Food is awesome. Funny story: my friends and I were at the beach and a Spanish group was behind us. One of the ladies said: "Thai food has no variety. It's always rice with something." If you too you think that, it means you don't know Thai food. You can have noodles too ;-) hahaha, no, I'm kidding. You can really eat whatever you want in Thailand. Massages are good, particularly Thai massage. You keep your clothes, no oil, and the lady shakes every bone in your body. Really good! Of course, Thai people are very nice and friendly. Beer is good. And everything is cheap! Definitively a place to come! Just be prepared to meet loads of tourists!
By the way, I only did the south of Thailand. The north is, not only even cheaper, but more nature oriented: jungle treks, elephants rides and stuff like that. Now you know, your choice :)

After Thailand, I flew to Cambodia. I will tell you more about it on my next post.
In the meantime, best of luck!

Rebeca

Pictures!!!

Little India Market - Singapore

 Breakfast in Singapore

 Sugar cane juice - Singapore

Singapore 

Something in Clay pot - Kuala Lumpur 

Salad in India 

Indian Food 

 Chicken - Kovalam

Kovalam - View from the Lighthouse 

Soup with rice (that lost me) - Singapore 

Dengue it was

Hello everyone,

I haven't written in a while because I was sick: I had dengue fever.
For those of you who doesn't know what dengue fever is, please let me introduce you to the wonderful world of tropical diseases.
Dengue fever is a mosquito borne infectious tropical disease. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a charasteristic skin rash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever). And I had all of those!!! I still have pain in my joints though... I feel like an 80 yo lady :(
Hopefully, it's not a mortal disease... the first time! You just get sick for one week, that's the dengue fever timing, one week. But during that week, you really suffer and you loose your appetite which could be dangerous, because when you don't eat, you get weak. If you get weak, you don't heal. If you don't heal, you get worse. See the pattern?
Oh, and you need to drink a lot! I was drinking 4.5 liters of water a day and was still thirsty!
So, yeah, I've got dengue fever. So I went to the hospital... I didn't really enjoy going to the hospital in Laos. The doctor and nurses were very nice. I can't really say if they were really competent though. Dengue fever heals alone... However, the doctor said he was worried about my state and wanted to keep me at the hospital. I couldn't laugh because I was really weak, so I gently declined the invitation.
Therefore, I needed to go to the hospital everyday for a blood take. That was the deal.
I'm not sure if I really needed to go everyday. I had dengue fever and people around here have dengue fever very often. But you can't really argue with a guy wearing a white coat, right?
So, I spent the last days going to the hospital in the morning, and resting, sleeping the rest of the day.
I was a bit sad. All the people around me where going outside, having dinner, buying stuff, visiting around, and I wasn't even able to go to the toilets without feeling like I was going to die.

But now it's over :) On Sunday I was fully recovered.
I tought: now, I will be able to go around, visit the night market, have dinner!
"MOUHAHAHA", said my body.
I was weak. Weak like a baby bird. I wasn't able to walk 5 minutes!
And my stomac said: food? you're kidding me, right? It's been too long since I had something solid inside myself!
So, here I am! Recovering, eating little, drinking lots, and walking as much as I can :)
I am feeling better every day and soon will be on my top 10 on my way to Thailand !

In the meantime, best of luck!
Rebeca