Waterlife at Indigo Pearl

There is a lot of water around at Indigo Pearl resort in Phuket Thailand. Not only pools, also small lakes.

And there is a lovely park around the buildings - all so green almost like a jungle.

Here is another pond, just outside my hotel room. Magical and mystic.

And here is a pic of one of the hotel pools, an infinity pool for adults only.

Pond with ice

We have cold night's now here in Sweden, that make this little pond all icy, but the water is still running from the statue.

It's still beautiful to look at. But I still miss summer!

And here you have a rusty water barrel, almost hidden in the grass.

Seedy bars and unspoilt beaches

As you may have noticed here on my blog, I really love Thailand and the very touristy place of Phuket, a big island in the south of the country.

But Phuket has so many things to offer. If you go to the biggest turist town in Phuket, Patong. You can find exclusive restaurants, big modern shopping centres and then of course the seedy bars. Like the one on the picture.

But you also have really unspoilt beaches, wuth really no one there. This one is close to the popular Kamala. Not got for a swim maybe, but it is beautiful no less, and it is low tide in the pic.

Dark Clouds over Kamala

It is not always good sunny weather in Thailand. Especially when you visit Phuket during the rainy season - as I did.

But these clouds are very beautiful anyhow. A view over the Andaman sea from my hotel.

And here is more water from Thailand, a art concept with a water mirror.

By the water

Some days ago I was at the Krusenberg slott, a castle outside Knivsta, close to the water. The same water that brings you all the way in to Stockholm and then to the big sea.

Krusenberg is now a nice hotel.  This above is - a jetty - where you arrive at when travelling with a boat. Something I did not, I used my car.

Here is another scene from the same place, beautiful isn't it? It was a little to cold for me to take a bath, but the waters are clean.

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.

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.

Bears and weddings in St Petersburg

Living close to Russia, I am as you swedish, I always thought about how it would feel to go there. When I grew up and Russia still was The Soviet Union I would not have gone for a holiday there for all the money in the world. But I know it is a really beautiful country. And interesting.

So one day I decided to go there on a cruise, to St Petersburg. But that is a completely different story. So I had 4 hours to spend on a guided tour. Not much, but it was enough that day, a really cold summer day. I I forgot to bring warm clothes, stupid me.

As yoy see the city is surrounded of water, it is a bit like Stockholm in that way. But then you can find these mobile shops with the usual shopping-trash, not for me.

But the view is really amazing, St Petersburg is one beautiful city - at least in the city centre. 

Of course you have to see a real russian bear, so putside on of the citys many beautifully restored palaces I found this woman that wanted mony for having a photo taken with you and the bear.

But since I don't like wild animals taken from there natural habitat in ways like these, that was not for me. Anyway, I took one photo of her and the little bear without paying, with a part of the magificent palace behind, The Winter Palace.

Once upon a time this magnificent building, The winter Palace, was the home to the russian tsar family, from 1732 to 1917. But the revolution changed it all.

Today part of the building is the home of one of the most important art museums in the world, The Herimitage Museum.

This is what I expected Russia to be, over the top churches with golden onion domes. This one is called Church of the Savior on Blood.

Construction started at 1883 under the tsar Alexander III but have been changed since.

It is also a very popular place to get married in.

All over the city you saw the, the newely wedded couples taking pictures for the memory books. One that really caught my attention was this couple.