Outside bathroom in Asia

During my recent trip to Indonesia I had the fortune to stay in hotels with outside bathrooms.

This first pic is from Gilli Travangang, where I stayed at Villa Ombak. I had my own garden whre the wc and shower was.

Here is one more pic from the lovely shower, with just salt water.

And this is another photo from the same hotel Villa Ombak. Where I washed my face. You can see the eco-watercloset in the behind.

Here is one more outside shower, this time from a hotel room in Bali.

Here is the beds at Villa Ombak. Just to give you an idea...

Indonesia - temples and rice fields

Just came back from a trip to Indonesia, to Bali and Gilli Travangang. A lovely trip with temples, sea, sun and rice fields.

And as always there is Asian beauty like this rice fields, from Bali. A lot of green.

But it also had a lot of magic moments, like this dragon in a lake...

A walk on the beach again?

During the winter here in Sweden many of us are dreaming of a sunny day at the beach. Like this here, when I was in Thailand last year.

But soon again I will be in the sun, in Asia. Dreaming of it every day now. The pictures here in from Kamala beach in Phuket.

An as you can see here in my photos it is not really crowded. Just a few persons on the beach.

Here is a pic from a restaurant I dined at in the evening. Just at the beach.

Mosaic - in Bangkok

I love mosaic - wherever I can find it. This is two ones from a temple in Thailand, and it's capital Bangkok.

The first one is in blue and gold.

This one is more of turquoise and gold, but a bit worn.

Flowers from Borneo

And here you have some more lovely flowers, these one I found in Malaysia, on the green island of Borneo.

Here above you have an exotic flower called Heleconia Pendula. It looks just as it was made of wood or something, almost too beautiful to be true.

This one is more common, I had one in my home once, it is a Bougainvillea. So lovely.

Flowers of Thailand

It is still just the beginning of spring here in Sweden and long until I can see flowers in my garden. So here is some flowers of Asia. These two comes from Thailand. One is in the water and one in from a bush. Both just as lovely.

This two above is some Lotus Flowers, one of the most famous flowers in Thailand.

Here you can see a Frangipani.

Thai market

This time it is a Thai market I want to show you. The first photo is showing a stall with some food, I don't know what it all is, but some of it lokks good. I saind some of it!

Then we have a more typical market place, with veggies for sale, somewhere in Thailand.

Swim up bar

I always wanted to try a swim up bar, the feeling that you could sit in the water and drinking something really cool in the hot sun.

Like this beautiful hotel i Phuket Thailand with a lovely pool. And yes, it is really cool to swim up ti a bar, maybe not so fun to swim back, if you had to many drinks...

Today the hotel is called Sawasdee Village, at Kata Beach.

Thai food - on a beach

When in Thailand I often eat on the beach, it is almost always very good, a nice view and do not cost a fortune. The spicy food does well with a cold beer too, maybe a Singha.

In the back ground here you can see another nice thing you alwas find on Thai beaches, som really good Thai massage.

These photos come from Khao Lak some years ago.

Foot massage in a Thai spa

One thing I really love to do when in Thailand or elswhere in Asia for that matter is thai massage, and foot massage.

Thai foot massage is a massage of the lower leg and feet. It involves hands on stretching and massage to open energies, stimulate reflex points that correspond to internal organs iof the body. For your health and well beeing.

It is called Thai foot massage but it's origins from China. I just LOVE IT!!

More flowers

Here is even more flowers, these are the real ones, but not from this spring in Sweden, but from the sunny Asia, again.

First you have this lovely flowers from a spa in Thailand, love the asian feeling that you can fix at home too.

These are from a hotel in Asia.

And these are flowers that where on sale outside a Buddhist Temple in Phuket, the Wat Chalong.

A stroll in Phuket Town

When you go to Phuket, the holiday destination in Thailand, many forget that it also has an interesting city, also named Phuket town.

This is Old Phuket town, a really charmig place with small streats and interesting shops. Some of the houses are built in a charming style, calles Sino-Portoguese, or Sino-Colonial.

Here is one of the most famous shops, a chinese man and his farmacy - a must to visit.

Dancing on the beach

This is what I dream about now, dancing on the beach in the evening, wathing the sun go down. Oh I miss my Asia som much, this photo is taken in Sri Lanka.

And here is another one, a little later. When night falls in the paradise, also from Sri Lanka.

The photo is taken at The Blue Water Hotel in Wadduwa.

Shopping in Turkey

I now bring you some other shopping idea's, this time from Turkey. Some years ago I did make a trip to Side, a tipical tourist town today, but with ancient roman ruins.

This is a shop where you can buy sweets and nuts, and a lot of other treats to eat.

And this is another shop with spices, like nutmeg - musgat - that you can see on the front to the right.

Reports from a wedding

Some years ago I was covering stories from weddings around the world - for a monthly Swedish bridal magazine called, Bröllopsguiden. I also wrote about honeymoons abroad.

This time I was in Malaysia and there in Borneo for a story about these that had a wedding abroad and the ones on a sun drenched honeymoon.

On one hotel I found a couple that just had got married and now was going to have a dinner then going to party the night away together with friends and family. These two photos are from the same couple.

And then you have these photos from another hotel, don't remember where, in a room prepared for a newlywed couple. Here is the bed...

...and here is the bathtub, in the same room. Filled with flowers, cute!

More fishes...

Some days ago I gave you some photos of a fishmarket in Borneo, Kota Kinabalu. Here is some more photos from the same place.

But this time, it is dried fish, that they use a lot in Malaysian cooking. And I can safely say I do not like to eat that at all. Small ones above.

Here is some of the bigger ones.

Here is the market again, fish and sea food everywhere.

Read an old entry about fish in Borneo here:

http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.com/2012/01/fish-but-no-chips.html

Fish - but no chips

I like to eat fish, so long at is not whith bones in it. Anyhow, I love to see what they have to offer in fishmarkets abroad. These photos are from  Malaysia, mostly in Kota Kinabalu in Borneo.

These are red, have no clue what tipe of fish it is, maybe you know?

It was mostly women that sold the fish here, in Kota Kinabalu.

Here you have some more shining fishes.

Houses on water in Borneo

And as I promised yesterday, here is some photos of other houses on water, these are from Malaysia, in the island Borneo. You se one young inhabitant here in the picture.

As the ones in Thailand the homes ar made of wood and they are built on stilts in the water.

The people that lives here are also called "sea gypsies", just as the where named in Thailand.

And here you have one more photo of the village in Borneo, we came there with this small boats, or canoes that you can see in the picture.

Houses on water in Thailand

I have been to two different places, one in Thailand and one in Malaysia, Borneo, where people live on water.

Like this one here, a small willage that visited some time ago in Thailand, not far away fom my then holiday location in Khao Lak. A place that now is completely rebuilt by the way, my hotel was hit hard by the tsunami, just 7 month after my stay there.

Here is one more picture of that village, it's really a tourist attraction these days, but people actually lives there, on water.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of some houses on water in Malaysia, in Borneo.

The James Bond Island in the Phang Na Bay.