【私奔理由】

2014年7月末的一天,我和我的朋友决定逃离这烦闷的生活。说走就走,但是去哪呢?西班牙?保加利亚?泰国?肯尼亚?还是斯里兰卡?我们想要一场未知的冒险来洗涤我们内心积累的沉重!去斯里兰卡!

这一天是8月4日,我们坐在Kandy的火车站台上等着去亚当山脚的火车。突然有一个中国女孩向我们走来,问我们是不是也要去亚当山?我们说是的,我们想半夜上山!从那时起我们就结伴旅行了。之后,凌和她的朋友就跟着我们去了美瑞莎和Unawatuna。我们之间小小的情愫就在这一起旅行的日子里滋长着。有一天,在惬意的沙滩日光浴结束后我们各自回房准备晚上一起晚饭。上楼梯的时候凌回过头,站在我面前,非常害羞的看着地板说:“我喜欢你。”这是我一生都难以忘记的一幕!我亲吻了她。如果飞到泰国去和她一起旅行一定要一个理由的话那么就是：我想看看我们的爱是否能有个美好的未来。

【私奔路线】

曼谷—涛岛—清迈—拜县—象岛—芭堤雅—曼谷

以曼谷为开头结尾是因为我飞机的起落都在曼谷。涛岛和清迈是凌的提议。芭提雅也是她的建议，因为这里离机场比较近。去象岛是因为我朋友之前去过，说那儿非常美。我也记不得为什么要去拜县了，也许是偶然想到的吧。

【私奔故事】

第一站:曼谷——久别重逢

“二月,快半年了,确切的说距离上一次拥抱你已经过去178天了。我好激动!我从来没有去过离家这么远的地方,但是我一想到能见到你,无论多远我都愿意!”

当我离开德国的时候德国是零下5°,当我降落泰国的时候泰国是30°。我从机场坐了天轨，然后又打了一辆突突车才到了我们的酒店。在我到达之前我就收到信息说房间钥匙在前台那里。当我拿到钥匙来到房间门口,打开门,里面没人!!!然后我听见浴室里传来水流的声音。我好激动!几乎都要等不及她洗完澡了!终于,浴室的门打开了,她站在我面前,头发滴着水,只围了一条浴巾。我们看着对方,开心的笑了起来。她冲进我的怀里,我们紧紧相拥,恨不得下一秒就是天荒地老。久久的相拥,却一句话都说不出来,所有的言语对于178天的别离来说都是那么的苍白无力,只有怀里的她给我真实的存在感!我和凌终于又在一起了!这是完美假期的开始!

走在曼谷街头感受着这座8百万人口的东方城市给我带来的冲击。我们来到了中国城。好多小店啊!好多市场的!好多路边摊啊!!!我对那里斑斓的色彩和特殊的气味记忆犹新!吃了一条街,我最喜欢的还是香蕉煎饼!吃饱了,脚也走酸了,我们决定坐船沿着湄南河回考山路。湄南河的风柔柔的吹拂着,两岸的风光完全吸引了我们的眼球。上岸后我们牵手走过大街小巷,吃椰子冰淇淋,喝冷饮,享受着冷冷的饮品和炎热的“夏日”。我们回到旅馆洗掉黏黏的汗水,夜幕降临之后,我们又奔向了著名的考山路。音乐,开心好奇的人们,小摊子,各种酒吧,这就是曼谷夜生活!我们一下子就被融进这个盛大的PARTY里了!根本感觉不到才刚到泰国第二天!

第二站:涛岛

初见涛岛

当我爱上曼谷这座城市的时候我们却要离开了。这是一座美丽的的城,但作为一名旅人,离开是必然的。我们将从古老而美丽的华南蓬火车站出发去春蓬。等火车的时候凌又拉着我去吃了路边摊,还为9个小时的火车之旅准备了些水果。我们的晚上9点准时出发啦!车厢里所有人都是背包客,气氛非常好!火车发出一个小时后我们离开了曼谷地界。好热啊!没有空调,只有车顶上那个小小的摇头风扇,。大家都在努力的想要睡着,我也是,但是根本睡不着啊!除了热就是兴奋!但是凌,坐在靠窗的位置,花不到一秒钟!好吧,几分钟就睡着了!整整9个小时我根本没睡着过!两个黑眼圈大的跟熊猫的一样!再看看凌,我们下火车等带我们去码头的车的时候她就跟打了鸡血似得这么精神!

涛岛,又叫龟岛。我更喜欢龟岛这个名字，因为它给我更多的想象空间。当我们的船慢慢的驶近这座岛屿时,我们看到了这绿色的小岛就像是一只趴在海上的乌龟!应该不是我整晚没睡看眼花了吧……

我们订的是一间带住宿的潜店,非常完美。凌之前也在这里住过。这沙滩美的就像是广告里天堂的样子!凌有AOW的潜水执照,所以我希望能够拿到执照跟她一起去欣赏那斑斓的水下世界。

我的OW课程学习

到达的第二天就开始上课了,从早上8点到晚上8点,我跟着我们的老师Yann在完成了理论课程和泳池训练。我们一起学习的有一对爱尔兰夫妇,两个来自丹麦的小哥,还有我来自于德国汉堡的潜伴。大家年纪相仿,学习的过程充满了乐趣。

我学习的时候，凌跟她之前在这里认识的朋友在一起。晚上的时候我们决定一起去吃饭。我们挑了一家意大利餐馆,人很多要排队,排到我们的时候是一张很小的桌子。没办法,我们只能坐这。凌和她的朋友相对而坐,我坐在她们中间。我就这么被中国女生包围啦!她们决定说英语让我也能听得懂。但五分钟之后她们的英语开始夹杂着中文,我还能听懂一些。20分钟后她们已经完全忘了要说英语了,我只能根据声音判断是谁在讲话,我的头就这么左右来回的转来转去像是在看网球赛一样……

这天晚上我激动的整晚都没睡好,不因为别的就因为第二天是我的第一次开放水域潜水训练!我们进行完今天的理论学习之后我们就出发了!一艘小的摩托船把我们从岸边带到潜水船上,当我登上那艘潜水船时我觉得自由,冒险和轻松的情绪一下子将我包围了!船停在了海中央,放眼望去湛蓝的海和无垠的天让我的心情飞扬了起来!

所有的装备检查完毕后,我们开始下水了。我的精神高度紧张,注意力高度集中,我不想出现任何的差池,因为每一个小小的失误都有可能导致我葬身大海。当我们成功的在十几米的海底完成今天所有的开放水域技术训练回到海面上时,我感到前所未有的轻松和惬意,我真心的为自己感到骄傲!当我回到潜店时已经是晚上8点了,凌去夜潜还没回来。我奖励了自己一瓶啤酒,坐在阳台上一边喝一边等她回来。

铃铃铃…铃铃铃…这是我们在涛岛的第四天。4点50分,外面一片漆黑,我们两个又累的跟软泥似得,浑身无力,但是我们不得不起来,因为我们要一起晨潜!我们想要一起去看那清晨安静的海底世界。当我们坐上摩托船的时候太阳出来了,欣赏着海上日出,呼吸着大海的味道,这美好的一天就这么开始了。

我和凌被分在不同的组,因为我还得继续完成今天的训练任务才能毕业。晨潜结束后我们回到潜店进行了结业考试。我以97%正确率通过了考试,耶!我终于拿到属于我的潜水日志本了!我再次为自己感到骄傲!然后就凌和我一起在沙滩上喝冷饮,晒太阳,泡海水享受在涛岛最后的时光。晚上凌和我的教练和同学们一起吃了一顿法国大餐。再见了涛岛!

第三站:清迈

我们今天又是早早的起床,收拾行李,准备去另外一个未知的世界。我从未到过如此遥远的东方世界,所以这里的一切对于我来说都具有强烈的神秘感和巨大吸引力!

我们坐上一辆皮卡来到一个码头,坐了五六个小时船后又换乘大巴,然后我们终于到了SurantThani机场。亚航的飞机把我们带到了有泰北玫瑰之称的清迈。当飞机在低空准备降落时,我得以俯瞰清迈。她真是美的让人窒息!凌之前来过这里,所以她告诉我说:“我们走到机场外面再拦突突车或者双条车,这样便宜一点。”好吧,我当然得相信她了。然后我们就这么走啊,走啊,走啊,等啊,等啊,等啊……太阳晒得我都快成鱼干了!根本没有突突车!也没有双条车!!!几分钟后(真的不是几个小时吗!?),终于来了一辆双条车把我们拉到老城区去了。清迈似乎有一种很特殊的魔力,可以让来到这里的而人完全放松下来,忘掉了所有的烦恼。夜晚我们在吃饭的时候远处夜空中升起了焰火。“这是为我们而燃放的烟火吗?”凌说。当然不是了,但是我从背后抱住她,一起欣赏这焰火,就好像真的是为庆祝我们在一起而燃放的一样。

在涛岛的那几天我都起的非常早,所以我以为我在清迈可以好好的睡到自然醒。但是我发现我错了!我还在睡梦中,有一个声音一直在试图把我弄醒。

“Tommy,我睡不着了。”

“。。。”

“Tommy,我饿了。”

“。。。”

“Tommy,我们起床去找吃的吧。。”

“!@#%*&!!!”

我最讨厌当我很累的时候别人一大早把我吵醒了!这才8点啊!我可是打算睡到12点的!气死我了!被吵醒了没办法只能陪她去瞎转,但我得给她一个教训让她以后不再吵醒我!于是我使出了摩羯座的杀手锏——沉默。要知道惹摩羯座生气的后果就是让你知道什么叫做全世界都沉默。我带着强烈的起床气跟她去吃了早餐之后就开始在古城里转古城,转寺庙,我觉得这是一种精神的洗礼。

她一直问我是不是还在生她的气,尽管我已经不生气了,但是我不能这么快原谅她,不然她下次还会吵醒我!我们吃了午饭,喝了冷饮后,她又拉着我去路边摊买水果吃。然后我们找了一间小店,我喝啤酒她啃水果。她又问我是不是还生气,我说还有一点点气。她说:“我现在有很多的气!!!”哈哈!她真的太可爱了。夜幕降临,我们回旅馆冲凉之后就去塔佩门转了转。

第二天，凌记住了昨天的教训,所以今天我终于可以睡到自然醒了!我们今天的主要计划就是清迈最著名的“周末夜市”。怎么走才能走到夜市?答案就是：跟着人群走!我们到的时候夜市已经摆出来了。整个夜市从塔佩门沿着古城的中轴线一直绵延到古城的另一边。我们在夜市转着转着，突然一个人在广播里说了什么之后放起了泰国国歌,然后所有人都静止不动了。这是一个非常令人感动的时刻!似乎在这里的所有人都深深爱着这个国家。随着天越来越黑,人也变得越来越多了。我们从一个小摊去到另一个小摊,吃完一个摊子又去另一个。凌买了好多吃的,多到她都没有手拿了。一只手拿着椰子,另一只手拿着一盘看起来像是章鱼和香菇的东西(译者注:金针菇培根卷，男神讨厌任何菇类)。我的天啊!好多香菇。夜市人好多,好拥挤,绝大多数时候都是凌走在我前面,拉着我的手带我穿过拥挤的人潮。这也是个不错的体验。

第四站:拜县

在泰缅边界的山里有个落后的小县城,我之前了解过,那里的人喜欢大麻。我们想去一探究竟。那里离清迈很近,所以我们打了一辆面包车过去。但是有个非常严重的问题就是山路太崎岖,急转弯太多,然后车里的一个女生就吐了。凌一直紧张的抓着前排椅背上的把手,我在欣赏窗外风景的同时也很为她感到骄傲,因为她从头到尾都没有吐。

我们终于到了拜县,因为只在这里呆一晚,所以我们找了一间镇中心的旅店。房间不是很舒服,但是只住一晚这里也还是个不错的选择。住下之后我们四处转了转,好热,又没有风。当我们走到小河边看到了远处翠绿的山,在听听潺潺的流水声,心一下子就静下来了。

这里也有一个夜市,但是跟清迈那个没得比了。到处都有三五成群的人围在一起唱歌做音乐,当我们经过他们的时候我都能问到大麻的味道。没有人去管,也没有人抓,好像自然而然一样。凌又在夜市买了好多吃的,两只手都拿满了,她让我帮她拿,我不肯,不能惯她的坏习惯,得能拿多少吃多少,吃完再买。她不开心了,但是这是原则。后来我们找了一间有炕,可以舒服的半躺着的酒吧。我们猜想这样的布置是因为半躺的炕更符合吸食大麻者的需求。我们点了鸡尾酒,半躺着,谈天说地。

第五站:象岛

24小时的远征

在拜县的一晚我们很放松,也很珍惜,因为在未来的24个小时我们都要在路上度过!早餐过后我们就坐上面包车离开拜县。我们到了清迈之后再坐NCA的夜班车到曼谷。这夜班车非常的舒服,座椅可以平躺，有被子，有耳机游戏机，而且发了很多零食。

第二天大早大概5点左右我们到了曼谷。我们回到考山路,因为我们下一程是从这附近上车。我们来到一个24小时营业的酒吧坐下吃点东西。这时候出现了一幅非常有意思的画面,右手边那拨人还在延续着前一晚还没开完的PARTY或者准备喝完最后一瓶酒回去睡觉,左手边那一拨人早早的起床,正坐着吃早餐。而坐在中间的我们两个不知道该被归为哪一拨呢?

终于我们坐上了另一辆带我们去码头的面包车。到了码头之后,一艘锈迹斑斑的轮船把我们带到了象岛。这一场从拜县到象岛1200公里的“远征”足足花了我们24小时。

两个人静静的狂欢

在象岛我们住在一个湖景小木屋里,门口就是大露台，露台下面就是湖,湖里还有盛开的荷花。非常安静和浪漫。洗去舟车劳顿的疲惫之后我们便坐在阳台上看着湖景,喝着冰啤酒,享受着这静谧安详的环境。

晚上我们沿着沙滩找到一家海边餐厅,那里的桌子搭载竹台子上,食客可以坐这吃饭也可以半躺在竹台子上面朝大海。我们点了一份忘了叫什么名字的菜,非常非常辣。虽然我俩都喜欢吃辣,但是这份菜的辣吃了之后喉咙好像着了火一样。我们催了服务员三四次她们才把饮料送来!突然海边火光四溅,所有人的目光都看向了海边。原来是火舞表演。

第二天早上当我们拉开门的时候发现外面下雨了。我有朋友几年前来过象岛,他们非常喜欢这里,但是他们说这里每天都会下雨。所以这天我们趁着雨还没来就跑到海边上晒了会太阳,泡了泡海水,看到天空黑下来我们就收拾东西顺路买了点水果零食啤酒饮料回房间了。因为定了个超棒的湖景房,所以下雨的时候,我们就坐在房前的阳台上,听雨赏花,对饮小酌。

第六站:芭提雅

我们在象岛的时候遇到了一对德国老夫妇,当我们说到要去芭提雅度过我们在一起的最后时光时他们说:“你们会怀念在这里的美好时刻的!因为芭提雅是一个很躁动又脏兮兮的城市!”这听起来像是一个警告。他们是对的!芭提雅确实是又脏又臭,而且很躁动不安。整座城市似乎是为了让那些欧洲来的挺着大大的啤酒肚的老头们来买女人而存在的。但是我们住的旅馆却非常棒,这是凌订的旅馆。她真的太会做旅行计划了,她应该去旅游公司工作!为了躲避这嘈杂而肮脏的城市,我们买了一瓶红酒回旅馆,享受属于我们的两个人时光,也计划着明天要做什么。

第二天我们穿过每天晚上都会发生点肮脏小秘密,脏的像个垃圾场一样的芭提雅步行街,来到码头,准备要去那个我们可以浮浅,海蓝沙净的岛屿KohLarn。无论如何,我们坐的客船驶离了芭提雅的海岸把我们送到了KohLarn。下船之后走几分钟我们就到了Sangwan海滩,这太美了!我们脱掉衣服,带上浮潜装备直奔大海。海里人很少,似乎只有凌和我。我喜欢这样的独处时光。我们搭最后一班船离开Sangwan海滩回到芭提雅。日落西山,在夕阳映衬下的芭提雅特别美。太阳落到山的那边,金黄的余晖渲染着远方的天际,暖暖的包裹着尽兴归来的游人。

也许白天去离岛享受纯净的海水，洁白的沙滩和明媚的阳光；晚上回到情色之城芭提雅，喝一杯鸡尾酒，看游人如织，和情人轻声耳语就是在芭提雅最大的享受了。于是我们在芭提雅的几天都是吃过早餐就直奔码头，坐船去KohLarn，但是我们每次都会选择不同的海滩。在芭提雅的第二天我们来到的是Samae海滩。阳光，沙滩，海水，冷饮，比基尼美女……完美应该就是这么定义的。当你觉得时光美好的时候它总是会飞快的流逝。一转眼天就黑了，我们回到了芭提雅最著名的情色步行街。我还记得人头攒动的清迈夜市，我曾以为芭提雅步行街也是类似，但当我走进这里我便发现完全不是这么回事。大多数在这里的人都是欧洲人或者印度人，而且他们绝大多数都超过了50岁！他们都在虎视眈眈的寻找着漂亮的年轻姑娘，然后花钱买她们半个小时，一晚或者直接包她们个把月。我很讨厌这些老男人玩弄女人的行为。凌也是这么想的。就像芭提雅最出名的标语说的那样：好男人都去了天堂，坏男人才来芭提雅。

这一天早晨，空气中弥漫着一股悲伤的气息，因为我们都知道这是我们在一起的最后一天了，而下一次也不知道什么时候才能见面了。但我们还是像往常一样吃完早餐然后坐船去KohLarn。今天我们去的海滩叫做Naul海滩，也叫猴子海滩，海滩很美，然而并没有猴子！我们在浮潜的时候发现这里的海胆特别大！对于凌来说都不是问题，因为她带了脚蹼。脚蹼又大又重我懒得背就没带过来，幸好没有踩到海胆上。下次我一定要买一个小的脚蹼！今天是最后一天了，我们最后一次一起游泳，最后一次牵手浮潜，最后一次在海里相拥，最后一次在海边亲吻，最后一次……可惜这已经是最后一天了。

我们回到沙滩上，躺着晒太阳。凌带着一副大大的墨镜，我看不到她的眼睛，但我看见眼泪划过她的脸颊。我没有办法去治愈她内心的不舍，因为我也同样难过。我唯一能做的就是告诉她：“我们的爱一定能够天长地久，我们一定能够一起创造属于我们的未来的。”我们一直在沙滩上呆着，直到沙滩上所有的人都走了，我们还是不想离开。凌走向大海，她静静的站在平静的海里，面对着阳光。这是我最喜欢的一幕，因为她在海和太阳的映衬下是如此的迷人！

最后一站：曼谷机场

分别的这天开始的很匆忙。我们大早起来收拾行李，退房，然后坐车去素万那普机场，也就是我飞机起飞的机场。我们听说素万那普机场有免费的机场大巴去廊曼机场，廊曼机场是凌要飞去普吉的机场。但是去到那里问了才发现必须要有廊曼机场出发的机票才可以坐免费的机场大巴，而我并没有。凌的眼泪一下子就流出来了，她想要跟工作人员解释，但是她啜泣哽咽一句话都说不出来，抱着我一直哭。我的飞机是晚上8点的，她的飞机是下午3点50的，但现在才1点钟，现在还不是说再见的时候。我们决定自己坐车去廊曼机场。热心善良的泰国人帮我们找到了去廊曼机场的公车，还帮我们买票，告诉我们在哪一站下车。

几经周折我们终于到了廊曼机场。我们在机场吃了点东西喝了点饮料，但是我其实不饿，也食不知味。我们再一次拥抱，并承诺我们一定会很快再见面的。不管多么困难都一定要再见面。她的泪湿了我的肩膀。凌慢慢的经过安检，我站在那儿看着她慢慢的从我眼前消失。我告诉自己要坚强，但是我根本做不到！不管我怎么努力的安慰自己，泪水还是一直流。唯一能够让我支撑下去的就是凌会在夏天来德国看我。

在一起的2个星期里，凌是我最好的朋友，最爱的情人，最美的女友。我们一起笑，一起哭。我好想她。

【29分钟私奔视频】

私奔去泰國，做最幸福的人

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译者记：在翻译的过程中我将男神的日记做了整合，避免过于流水账影响读者阅读兴趣。附上英文原文，如有疑问，请与我联系。

Tommy 私奔日志原文：

Traveling With You Opens My Mind

Why we traveled together

It was end of July 2014. A friend and me wanted to escape from daily life. We had the choice between different destinations: Spain, Bulgaria, Thailand, Kenya and Sri Lanka. We searched an adventure, so we decided travel to Sri Lanka.

It was 4th August and we sit at the train station in Kandy waiting for the train. Next place is a village near to Adam’s Peak. Suddenly a Chinese girl came to us, she asked if we go to Adam’s Peak. We answered yes, we want to hike to the top at night. From then on we traveled together.

Later, Ling and her friends followed us to Mirissa located at the southern coast and to Unawatuna. We spend a lot of time together in these days. After a sunny beach day we went back to our different rooms. Ling stand in front of me, very shy, she looked down to the ground and she said: „I like you!“. I will never forget these words. Kisses followed...

The reason I want to see ling again is, that I had to find out if there is a future for our love.

Travel routes

Bangkok first because I arrived there. Koh Tao and Chang Mai was Ling’s idea. Pattaya was Ling’s idea, because is close to the airport. Koh  Chang, because friends of me raveled before to this island and they said it's beautiful. I can't remember      detailed why we planed to go to Pai. It was spontaneous I think.

My travel diary - Love, adventures, activities, traveling, emotions

Day I - Bangkok - See her again

It was February, almost a half year - exactly 178 days - since I hold you in my arms the last time. I was excited, I never raveled so far away from Germany, but with the knowing we are together again soon, it is worth.

When I start my travel in Germany it was -5 degree, after I arrived it was about 30 degree. I drove with sky train and Tuktuk to the hotel where we met again. Before I arrived, I got a message that the key for the room is stored at the reception.

I went to the first floor. Opened the door. But, nobody is there! Than I heard water from the shower. I am so excited, hard to wait till she will finished shower.

Finally the door of bathroom opened and she stand there with wet hair, only wearing a towel. We saw each other and got a big smile. She run into my arms and we hold each other for a very long time. There were no words, only feeling exists in that moment.

Ling and Tommy are reunited, finally. That is the beginning of wonderful holidays.

Day II - Bangkok - China Town at daytime, Kao San at night

Time to explore the different cultural influence of the 8-million people city. We arrived in China Town. So many shops, so different markets, so much street food. Impressed from the colors and smells, we ate - I think it was the best - Banana Pancake. Full and with tired legs we decided to go back by boat at the Chao Phraya River. The wind blows through our hair slowly and we got a special sightseeing from the riverside.

We enjoyed the afternoon, walked through the streets, ate coconut ice cream and had cold drinks. When it becomes dark outside we went to the Kao San Road, maybe the most famous road of Bangkok. Music, happy and curious people, markets, bars - that is nightlife. We were part of this big party.

It doesn't feel like it is our second day.

Day III - Bangkok - Set off, she can sleep every where

Our last day in Bangkok. We like this city. We like the people here, which make this city to a special place. It is time to reach our next destination.

We arrived at the old and beautiful Hua Lamphong Railway Station. During the waiting time we ate some street food and bought some fruits for the 9 hour train trip.

We set off at about 9 pm. All the people in our train waggon are backpackers. The atmosphere is very good. After one hour we left the metropolitan area of Bangkok. It is still hot, we have no AC, but fan. The most people try to get some sleep, me too. I can't sleep, I'm too excited. Ling, sitting next to me at the window, had no problems to fall asleep. After a few seconds - OK, maybe minutes - she slept very deep. We arrived in Chumphon, I noticed it, because I was still awake with big dark circles around my eyes. Ling looked well rested when we wait for the bus, which bring us to the ferry.

Day V - Koh Tao - Dinner with two Chinese girls

The second day of learn diving starts early at 8:00 am and ends at 8:00 pm. Our teacher Yann gave us useful theory lessons in the classroom and practice lessons at the swimming pool. Our diving course is well balanced. There is a couple from Ireland, two guys from Denmark, my dive buddy from Hamburg, Germany and me. We are all in the twenties and we had a lot of fun.

During I stayed at the diving school, Ling spend some time with her friend, she met before at Koh Tao. In the evening we decided to have a dinner together with her friend. We have chosen a Italian restaurant, there was only one free, small table. We took seat. Ling was sitting next to me on the right and her friend sit on my left side. I was surrounded by Chinese girls. They planned to talk in English, that I can understand what they talk about. It took only five minutes, than they mixed up English with Chinese language. My head turns from the left to the right and to the left again. After 20 minutes they forgot to speak English, only Chinese. My head turned around like watching a tennis match.

Day VI - Koh Tao - First open water dive

I am excited, because today we dive in the ocean for the first time. The day starts with theory lessons. Than it starts. A small motor boat pick us up at the beach and we drove to the dive boat. After we arrived at the boat I felt a special atmosphere consists of freedom, adventure and relaxing.

The boat stopped in the middle of a beautiful environment. We go down in the blue water. I am high concentrated, don't want to do something wrong. I was a little bit proud after we went back to the surface. It is an amazing feeling to float in the water.

My school day ends at about 8.00 pm, I went to our room waiting for Ling, she had a night dive. I sit on the terrace and drunk a beer. I felt that I deserved it.

Day VII - Koh Tao - Enjoy morning dive together

The alarm was ringing. It was still dark outside. We were both terribly tired, but we had a morning dive! We wanted to see the underwater world in the quiet ocean at the morning. When we took seat at the motor boat the sun rising begins. The day could not start much better!

We enjoyed the colorful ocean life in different groups, because I was still a diving school student. Back in school I wrote the theory exam. Passed with 97 %, yeah! Finally I got my diving log and I felt proud again.

We spend the rest of the day at the beach, cold drinks, cool down in the ocean, enjoying sunshine and cold drinks. In the evening Ling and I attend at a dinner, together with my dive instructor and my classmates.

Day VIII - Koh Tao - Chiang Mai - Change beach with culture

We woke up very early again. Pack our backpacks, ready for the next adventures! We drove with a truck to the ferry port. After five or six hours and one bus drive later, we arrived in Surat Thani. Small city with an airport. An AirAsia plane brought us to Chiang Mai. I saw the beautiful landscape around Chiang Mai minutes before we landed. The city is also named rose of Thailand. Breathtaking. Maybe I watched out of the window with open mouth.

Ling raveled before to this place. She told me: "Let's leave the airport. Outside we can find cheap Tuk Tuks or Pickup-Trucks." Ok, I had to believe her. We walked and walked and walked and waited and waited and waited - no Tuk Tuk, no Pickup-Truck. Minutes later - felt like hours in the sun - a driver stopped for us and brought us to the city centre.

It is a special atmosphere here in the north of Thailand. Here we relaxed our mind and forgot all the daily problems. We thought each other: "Is it specially for us?" - No, sure not, but it felt so. Anybody started a colorful firework

Day IX - Chiang Mai - Only five more minutes!

After the last two days when we had to get up very early, I thought that we can sleep longer to recover a little bit. It was a mistake. A voice tried to wake me up. "Tommy, I can't sleep anymore. I'm hungry. Let's get up! Tommy..." When I'm tired and somebody wake me up I turn into a morning crouch...

We checked out some cafes, restaurants and ate delicious street food. We enjoyed the quality time. When we were sitting at a restaurant and it becomes night.It becomes mid night and we are gone for a night walk to the Thapae Gate and the old city wall. A lot of people visit this place at night.

Day X - Chiang Mai - Night Market - so many people

Ling remembered about the morning crouch, so I slept longer this day. Our master plan is to visit the old city night market.

How to get to the night market? Just follow the other people! We arrived. The market begins at the Thapae Gate and ends at the end of this very, very long street. When the national anthem of Thailand sounds through the speakers everybody stand still and did nothing. A very moving moment. It becomes later and later and the people become more and more. We went from one stand to the next, from one street food to another one. Ling bought so much food that she can't carry it. In one hand a coconut, in the other hand something which looks like octopus and mushrooms, a lot of mushrooms.

The street was so narrow to walk through the people. The most time Ling walked in front of me holding my hand and pulled me through the human traffic. Nice experience!

Day XI - Pai - Escape to Pai

There is a small village in the mountains next to the borderline to Myanmar. I read before that there live people which dropout. People who like weed. We want to see this relaxing place.

It is not far away from Chiang Mai so we took a mini bus. But there was one problem: extreme curves, up and down through the mountains and a girlfriend who get a car sick very fast. Ling was holding the seat in front of her, nearly all the time - I enjoyed the landscape. I was a little bit proud of her because she did not through out.

Ok, we arrived and we have only one night in Pai. We searched a room next to the centre of the village. It was not so comfortable, but comfortable enough for one night. We went out and discovered the new environment. It was hot, no wind. We saw the mountains at the horizon and stand at a small river enjoying the nature. It is a good place to calm down.

Sun goes down and we went out to enjoy the nightlife. There was a night market, but a small one, not comparable with Chiang Mai. Everywhere were sitting small groups of people making music together. Every time we passed such a group we smelled the weed. Nobody cares about it. We found a music bar with a chillout area, where we sit and lay on the ground enjoying a cocktail.

Day XII - Pai - Chiang Mai - Bangkok - Koh Chang - in 24 hours

We were relaxed now. That is important because the next 24 hours became stressful. After our breakfast we leaved Pai with mini bus. From Chiang Mai we took a comfortable sleeping bus to Bangkok.

We arrived at Bangkok very early. Maybe 5.00 am. We went back to the Kao San Road, because our next trip started not far away from there. We waited in a bar. It was a funny situation. There were two kinds of people at the same time. Few of them still in party mode and had there last drink. Other people are early birds and ate breakfast. Between: we.

The journey from leaving Pai and arrive at the island took exactly 24 hours, we raveled more than 1200 km.

Day XIII - Koh Chang - Can we have something to drink?

We lived in a wooden bungalow, the terrace faced to a sea. Very quiet and romantic.

Later at the evening we searched a beach restaurant. We sit / lay at wooden a platform in front of the ocean. We ordered some food. I can not remember the name, but I remember it was very, very spicy. Ling like spicy food and me too. But this burned like fire and we asked the waitress three or four times to bring us something to drink. We had to be brave. The night was ending with the show of two fire artists. They drawed circles in the air.

Day XV - Pattaya - Whats wrong here?

We met an old German couple in Koh Chang. They asked: "Where do you go after Koh Chang?" And we answered: "We go to Pattaya for our last days, it is closer to the airport." They said: "You will forget all the beautiful moments you had here, because it is a stressful, dirty city!" - Sounds like a warning.

They are right. Pattaya is dirty, it stinks and it is loud. Looks like it exists only because of old European men with beer belly and prostitution.

We had really nice hotel room, organized by Ling - she should work for a travel agency. We bought a big bottle of wine and enjoyed the evening in our room and made plans for the next days.

Day XVI - Pattaya - Koh Larn

We decided to go to a beach where we can snorkeling. We walked across the walking street to the ferry port. The walking street, where at every night happened secret dirty things looked like a dumping ground and it smells like this. Anyway, we sit at the ferry boat and Pattaya becomes smaller and smaller at the horizon. We drove to an island named Koh Larn. It is only a few minutes to walk to the Sangwan Beach. It is beautiful, a lot of tourists think so too. We started snorkeling. Only Ling and me. We enjoyed the loneliness.

After a long beach day, we took the last ferry to Pattaya. The sun goes down slowly and suddenly this city looks beautiful too. The hills in the background got warm light and the skyline shined bright in the last sunbeams. Also Pattaya earned a chance to show us the beautiful sides.

Day XVII - Pattaya - Bad guys go to Pattaya

Same procedure like last morning. After breakfast we went to the ferry port. Our destination: Koh Larn, but this time we went to the Samae Beach. Sunshine, white sand, blue water, cold drinks and some shadow places. Everything is perfect. In this environment the time goes fast, too fast. It is evening again and we made some plans for our night.

We visited the Walking Street. I remembered the night market in Chiang Mai, I remembered a lot of people at the street. At the walking street are also a lot of people, but there is nothing to compare with the night market. The most people in Pattaya are Europeans or Indians and they are normally older than 50 years. They are all "hunting" beautiful young girls, which earn there money with sex. They exploit the bad situation of the girls. It is disgusting. I abhor the behavior of the old men. Ling shares my opinion.

The slogan of one bar fits perfectly: "GOOD GUYS GO TO HEAVEN - BAD GUYS GO TO PATTAYA".

Day XIX - Pattaya - Last day together

There was a sad atmosphere after woke up at this morning because we know, that this is our last together for a very long time.

We followed our daily plan: breakfast - ferry - Koh Larn. After we arrived we took a motorbike taxi and cross the whole island. That time we visited Naul Beach, also called Monkey Beach. First I have to tell you, I saw no monkeys. Pity! But the beach is beautiful. It is our last day and we want to share so many activities. We were snorkeling. The sea urchins are very big at that place. No problem for Ling, she had fins. But I was too lazy to take the fins with me, because they are heavy and need a lot of space in the backpack. Message to me: Buy smaller fins for the next holiday! We holding hands in while snorkeling for the last time. We kissed each other standing in the water for the last time.

Back at the beach we lay there faced to the sunshine. I turned my head to Ling, she wears big sunglasses. But I saw teardrops running over her face. There is nothing to cure this feelings. The only thing I can do is to say: Our love will last forever, we will have a common future.

The other beach guests left already, we were still there. Ling went back to the ocean. She was standing still in the flat water, facing the sun. That is my favorite picture which shows desire...

Day XX - Bangkok - Tears at Don Muang airport

This day started stressful. We had to pack up the last things and checked out from the hotel. A mini bus drove us to the Suvarnabhumi Airport, where I have to leave Thailand. We heard before that there is a free connection to Don Muang airport, where Ling will fly to Phuket. I had no flight ticket from Don Muang airport, so I could not use the free bus. Ling wept, she thought we get separated at this moment. It was to early to say goodbye. We decided to take a public bus to Don Muang. It worked. Thai people helped us to buy a ticket and to take the correct bus. Very polite.

We arrived at Don Muang. We ate and drunk something. But I was not hungry, I could not taste anything. The time was running. Now we have to say goodbye. We hold each other, and promised that we will be together again soon. We needed more than one tries. I felt her tears at my body. Ling goes through the security check. I stand there till she disappears from my view. It is a special sadly feeling, I never had before. I said to myself that I have to be strong. But that was not possible, tears come out from my eyes. The only fact that bolstered us, is the fact that Ling visit me in summer in Germany...

In this almost two weeks Ling was my best friend, my mistress. My girlfriend. We laughed together, we wept together. I miss her.