North by northwest

So we have left the Cameron Highlands and have made our way through Malaysia travelling North by Northwest to Penang, where we spent a couple of days visiting temples and hanging out at the beach. The highlight was riding around with a rented 80CC scooter all over the island exploring, not necessarily the safest but certainly the most fun!

So we have come as far as Krabi in Thailand, and Manfred and I are about to split up for a couple of weeks, has been planned for a rather long time. Manfred is going onwards to explore the few places in southeast asia he has not visited yet, Cambodia..... not that I am not intrigued by a country so different in its history than the peaceful Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, but it will have to wait a while. My friend Michael Eglin introduced me to rock climbing about 2 years ago and I have gotten quite nuts about it over time, spent several weeks in Italy and France, and many weekends in the Swiss Alps, not to mention the 100s of hours in the climbing gym. What better thing to do than to go to THE climbing mekka in asia, Railay in Krabi.....


Exploring Pulau Lankawi...

The how was harder than the where really, but with a bit of initiative and luck this is how it panned out.... wrote a note on a climbers website asking for climbing partners, hoping to find someone that will bring the heavy rope and quickdraws out there for me to use... funny enough the people that answered were Andrea and Jan from Austria, and Andrea has family in Switzerland so she was able to bring out my rope and draws for me.