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More random shots from Burma

Some pics from Burma

Hi! I'm a enviroment friendly napkin

Sometimes I wish the whole world would be like a coffee house. You know, maybe not Starbucks, but like that. Color harmony, nice backround music, smell of coffee, stylish pictures on the wall and all that. Your biggest problem is choosing between a latte and frappucino. Your paying ridiculous prices of course but you don't care 'cause you know your also paying for the nice staff, magazines, nices couches and armchairs and clean toilets. They are the same everywhere in the world, only with charming local influences like in Finland rye bread, not drunken idiots. Maybe there are black and white photos of local old people on the walls or perhaps paintings from a young artist.

You feel like the world is a good and juste place, you read a pamphlet that tells you that the farmers get enough money for the coffee beans. A sign politely asks you to use as little as possible of plastic spoons. The napkins have a message.

However, the actual beauty of these kind of places lies in the fact that they are havens. After an hour or two in one you feel more armed to deal with hars world. Fortunatly today, I didn't even have to do that. After a cappucino and a tomato wrap I started my small excursion to Hong Kong. Loved it. Much more humane than I thought. Plus, if you look it down from the Peak, (a hill there) you notice that a huge part of the Hong Kong island is green. Very green, it's like jungle.

Yesterday wasn't bad either. Walking around in Macao which is a weird place but I like it. Makes me miss China and Europe. And of course, I'm visiting Olli, a good friend from back home. He shares apparment with a central location and a nice room mate. No complains.

And got the T-shirt

Hanne and Stine and the actual Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat was surprisingly extreme sight seeing. In the picture Stine, who is 21 today!

The enigmatic Bayon-faces, as Lonely Planet would say...

The original Tomb Raider temple! Jungle versus stone and all that shit.

Well, it was cool, all of it. But I don't think I will be seeing any more temples before Myanmar, or something. Tomorrow Battambang, if karma is on my side.

Extra day in Kampot

So. Today I decided to spend a day more here in Kampot. Small town near to coast of Cambodia. There is nothing to do here but the place has some nice restaurants and for some reason, the fastest Internet in South-east Asia. It's also very beautiful.

Yesterday I went to Bokor hill station. It's a ghost town in the jungle. There is a huge hotel-casino, build in the forties, but nobody has used in it's original purpose in a quite a while. And the Khmer Rouge used to through people off a cliff there so it's supposed to be haunted. Well, don't know about that, I just ate best curry in my life there.

The trip was good but because of it every muscle in my body is aching. The drive there was about two hours trough the jungle, on a pick up, on the bumpiest road I've ever been on, in my life. So basically you had to cling on for your life. And of course, the driver was completely crazy.

Lately I've been thinking about traveling a lot. At some point I have to figure out how I get home. And when. I have to consider the fact that at some point I will get tired of :

• caring everything I own in a 55 l. backpack


• answering the questions where you from, what is your name, are you traveling alone etc. a couple of times a day.


• constantly thinking what people want from me (money, sex or both)


• hearing the phrase (insert a country) is so much better than (insert a country), people are friendlier etc. from my fellow travelers. The truth is, people are friendly everywhere here. Sadly, because of huge cultural differences and their often poor English good conversations with them are rare. Or maybe it's because I'm a stupid Westerner and not trying hard enough. I don't really care.


• missing my friends


• missing Europe

My plans keep changing every day. I have no idea where I'm gonna be for Christmas, new years or my birthday. I decided not to give as shit. Maybe on Christmas eve I'll be on a bus where nobody knows or cares that it's Christmas or go to bed early and try not to think about it. Francisco promised to call me. One thing I hope though, is that I will be some where I can listen to Pilsators Christmas album on-line!

Today's change of plans was that I'm not gonna meet my friend Lilli in Thailand. She's going to Koh Chang, where I've already been. But on the other hand, it made my plans in other ways easier. I also got a email from my danish friends, that I'll meet them in Phnom Phen. That's the way it goes, I guess.

Ja kaikki rakkaani Helsingissa ja maailmalla. Pitakaamme kaikki tahoillamme hiljainen hetki Maatushkan muistoksi. Kylla siina olin kuitenkin hieno baari. Lue uutinen myos uutinen: http://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/artikkeli/Tulipalo+vaurioitti+baaria+Fleminginkadulla/1135223559169

Dead Kennedys

So, after bunch of uninteresting events I found myself in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. This is a place where the bartender speaks fluent Finnish. And most of the clientele as well. For my defence, I have to say I really wasn't looking for that. But it was cool. Met nice people and found a English-Finnish bar called Bar-Baari. Sounds horrible for all you hard core travelers out there, I know. But it's always nice to use the most beautiful language around.

Today I went to check out how the khemers really live. That means taking the bamboo train. Which is a motor bike powered resina. (I hope that is English word as well...) Basically just couple of boards on really old tracks. Like a roller coaster without the ups and downs. That was something! On the way back I was in a car with 14 other people. Safety really isn't a the biggest issue here....

Well, I always start writing when I'm hungry. Gotta run for Tanja's sausage soup. Still staying away from happy meals, I hope.