Der Göttliche Hauch

This was probably one of the most exiting transport i ever had in my live and drive many kind of transportations on my travel on many places .But the Transfer Bangkok to Laos was like that.
Taking th night train to the Lao boarder changing to minibus changing them in a rapid jump off jump on just in some no-name villages just trusting that it would be hopefully the right one .This about 3 times and finally on a litle long boat to get on the Island on the Mekong .

Hbut what elseow you pack 22 People on the back of a minibus more a vegetable truck on 10m2 is a LAO art and if run over the streets your back get really hurt after hours of driving without one centimeter too move even just your legs .But we get on the most chili place in the world the island Don Tet with the small fisher huts guesthouses granite for minimal comfort but what else you need .
About 3 hours you have generator cu rent that makes it hard to charge even you batteries of photo or other equipment you have with you like ipod ect. Internet is there for extreme high prises and even more extreme slow that its make it nearly impossible to upload a Photo to your face book or flicker for your friends .That’s why the blog also miss now some of the nice ambient flir pix that i would like to share too .Next city i will ad them .
Don Tet is about just very close to Cambodian border and some called it the last paradise on earth people and nature is like that and time doesn’t exist here .The most common sentence ” i think i will stay one more day ” on this way many stay quite long here and you see some long mustache backpackers here ,there are no shaving stuff available here to .
So i would like to recommend this place as one of the 3 highlights you must be in Laos but on the other way i would prefer it stays as it is quite and undiscovered with very view truism .

One Extreme fast decision i had made for a Travel to Asia again .As its a huge change going on for next year we wana power up with new spirit and more Asian connections. So the Tankgirl moved on the 24 December to start a travel to Laos ,North Vietnam ,east Thailand and we shortly expand it to visit South china too.
Keep some relaxing days in Kho Chang a little island about 6 hours from Bangkok we dropped there right away after landing .And stay there to keep the new year on a beach place far south of the island ,on some little wooden huts called Cliff hand cottages far simple wood huts but very quite and right up a rock from with you can see the most beautiful sun downer.
Befor we dive deeper in to the land and ethnic places. Getting down from the fast and hectic European time. After about a week we get the feeling that the door opens for us .
Even on the far est spots you find some kind of Internet and even my friend Bebi (Joe) was surprised how many backpack travellers take there laptop with them .So we are not the only crazy ones.
I will tray to fix my mobile to post and upload some snaps to the facebook and Flicker accounts too.
But still minimise the use of all this technical and online stuff as much as possible.
Still need some visas for Laos and china and to repair BePis Nikon lens .
What was impossible in Europe (no spare parts) is here quite simple.
The friendly thai people is a perfect and easy start for this travel.
more soon

Some times people forget how they get the reports on there TV screen ,when siting on a dinner with family and friends. This Cameraman lost his life for his work .Doesn’T matter witch nationality race or country a cameraman is from he is the Eyes of the public ,he move to places wher peopel shoud look at ,some times places where wars or other bad things happen too. But without the public eyes in this spots never the world could help or change in a good way at this places. This Reuters cameraman was a local how tray to help his Nation to feed the pictures by working for Reuters .Reuters is probably one of the 2 Biggest news Agencies worldwide many TV stations get there Video footage from them. Even the big ones like CNN or BBC .So never forget the invisible cameraman needs your attention too even when you never will see him befor is dead.
This is personal memory when i have done my first camera work in former yugoslavia for the ORF with Fritz Orter and Antonia Rados and many others .You never want to risk your live but some times it get dangerous ,and when you come home every emergency helicopter feel you fear ,because in that place you come from it was all time a combat helicopter.
Even the solders know the dangerous power of a camera in there operation Field. He will document what will happen .The UNO and the USA would never send troops to support the people there if they don’t see the Pictures of the Cameraman in the first line .
Their military officers come much later and have never that kind of material like the public TV stations produce.
Just one last note , when 6 Solders stand on a place and one cameraman a sniper would shoot first the cameraman than the solders. That’s why some old rules for Journalist like the Charta for Jornalist in War zones how to behalf in War zones due not count anymore .If you are identifiable as Journalist TV or cameraman you are first target for anybody.
Fritz Orter brings out his 2nd Book about the Yugoslavian war ,in the first he mentioned some lines about his camera team too .Thanks for that .

Einkaufstipps Hanoi: Brillen in der Trang Tien Street in Hanoi 1/3 der normalen Preise
Möbel bei Master Works 21, Pho Duc Chinh
Möbel bei VanLoi 87 Hang Gai Street
Kissen bei Mosaique 22, Nha Tho Street
Fotos Viet Gate 11, Hang Mana

Nha Trang Hotels: Hotel The Sun 1, Tran Quang Khai 8-10 US

Fotosafaris mit Long Thang 126, Hoang Vu Thu Street

Essen Hanoi: Indochina
Koto
Cha Ca La Vong
Nachtleben Hanoi: Jazzclubs: Cau Lac Bo Nhac Jazz und Jazzclub Sunset

Hi just to show you the wounderfull skype elephant
he will be with me all the wey on my Travel in CAmbodia Vietnam and Laos.
I will plug my skype (USB) on the Internetcaffe when iam going online so all my fiends will be seen that iam alive
;)
The blog will used for a Travel log too and if like it shoud work with the MMS stuff to you can get live the pictures i will do from my mobile on the Blog

Link: http://www.travelfish.org/

Link: http://www.travelfish.org/location/cambodia/southern_cambodia/kampot/bokor_national_park

Established by the French as a hill-station, Bokor had its heyday in the 1920s and since then has been abandoned twice, during World War II and the Khmer Rouge period. Walking through the crumbling casino/hotel and other buildings dotted across the Bokor ridge is a little spooky, particularly if one of the frequent mists roll in, but it’s easy to imagine what it must have been like. At least one horror movie has been filmed here, and we suspect once Hollywood hears of this place, many more will be in the pipeline. When we visited we pulled up in front of the casino a mere 10 metres away, but couldn't see it. The area saw fierce fighting between the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge, with one side holed up in the Catholic Church and the other in the casino, with both buildings still bearing the scars today. A great view back over Kampot can be seen if it’s a clear day.

It’s worth spending a night here, even though the accommodation is only very basic national park dorm rooms and very limited food – instant noodles -- and drink – warm beer – are available. The two-tier Popokvil Waterfall is certainly worth a trip to, though at 4-5km from the casino, it’s best to have your own transport. Wear or take warm clothes.

Bokor was established as a national park in 1993, spans four provinces and despite substantial illegal logging, remains home to elephants and some claim tigers.

To get there, you can hire a 4WD from Bokor Club for US$30 per day, which isn’t so bad if you squeeze in four or five people, as you need transport to see everything along the ridge. Kampot guesthouses also run trips in Camrys for $6-8 per person, or more if you’re staying overnight. The national park accommodation is $5 per person and park admission is an additional $5 per person. The road is not good and should not be attempted by novice motorcyclists, but if you're patient you can do it on a Honda Dream.