Bkk - Chiang Mai - ?

Hello people from all around the world, its time for a small update again. I survived songkran and is now on the move again. Am i going home this time? naah not quite yet. Found some new friends in chiang mai that i will be joining now for a few days. Sitting in the bus terminal now waiting for our bus to bangkok that will take us about 10 hours. We havent yet figured out how to continue from that but thats another problem when we arrive in bangkok. If we find a way to get to the next city from bangkok we will finally end up in.. wait for it...... Pattaya ... Our plan is to stay there for 3 nights (at least). The people Im travelling with is going home on the 30th of april so we dont have that many days, but surely enough to have a good time.

Songkran.. That was amazing, the people in thailand sure know how to party all day and all night. songkran in chiang mai lasted for 3 days, but for me only 2, because I got sick of all the cold water that was trowed at me. Being soaking wet for two days was more than enough hehe. There were thousands of people walking the streets beeing happy and throwing water on people. I dont even want know the water bill for the hole country in that week, but it must have been ridiculously high. Seeing people that happy playing like small children just makes you realise that you will never get too old to have fun. I saw 70 year old people and 5 year old children participating and there were no difference if you were old or young, everyone was having a blast.
But there were also somethings I wish I never saw. We were sitting outside a bar enjoing some cold drinks when all of a sudden 3 guys came to the bar and one of them was bleeding from his head and back. He had been stabbed two times and was bleeding like a pig. All since I was a kid I have had a problem seeing blood, and it took me maybe a minute until I started feeling week and I had to lean down with my head so I wouldnt faint. but it was so close and I still think about it. Its the most horryfying thing Ive ever seen I can promise you.

Have to end now because my time on the computer is coming to an end. but until next time..

and see you in pattaya ;)

Enjoy life

I've come so far in my travelling now that it's started to feel like home. (Living from a suitcase isn't that bad after all.) A couple of days ago it reached three months. Litterally I have been all around the world in that time. Can not really decide what place I liked the most, but theres several places I enjoyed so much. I guess La, las vegas and thailand has been the best places so far, they are the places I miss the most today. But at least now I have reasons to go back. Cuz there is so much more to explore and see. 

A lot of you readers may think it all have been good days doing the things I do, but YES there have been days that I really missed home, family and friends. And even if I meet a lot of new friends during my travels it's not quite the same because most of them go home after a couple of weeks and I stay here. Luckily there are so much people in the world and you will never have enough of friends. ;) 

At the moment I'm sitting in the hotel resteurant/pool waiting for the bus to take me to Bangkok. Two weeks in karon by myself is coming to an end. I've had an amazing time here but it feels like it's time to go and see the rest of thailand. It's allready my third time here, and it has become to be one of the places in the world I feel like beeing home. And Im pretty sure I will go here again sometime in the future. 

The bus to Bangkok will take around 12 hours, and thank god for VIP buses. After that one night in Bangkok then the next 12 hour busride to chiang mai (fml). Songkran is around the corner and yet again they say chiang mai is the best to place be at on songkran. Did some shopping yesterday so now im almost fully prepared for it. Chestband for the gopro and a waterproof cover for the phone. 

I've been struggling a long time now with the problem uppladdning pictures to the blog, but finally I got it sorted out, and I must admit it wasn't that hard. Hahah if I would have looked into it a little bit longer I'd realised only retards wouldn't figure it out. Damn good I did, huh? 

So people enjoy ;)

  

There's this girl... <3

 

 Inside a shopping street in vegas 😎

Main goal in life... That Lambo life.

And some party pictures in patong.

Me, Louise, Martin and Wilma at Grabbarna Grus

Sanni and me partying with some swiss guys in Hollywood discoteque, banglaroad

 Jungceylon shopping mall

 

Karon beach view

 

Getting prepared for songkran 😉

Internet corner

Here we are again. Been travelin back and forth now for a while, at least it feels like that. I havent really counted the miles or kilometres Ive been traveling this past month, but its a lot I can assure you. From Thailand to vancouver, from vancouver to vegas and los angeles. From los angeles to peru and in peru i did some ridiculous travelling with the bus. 16 hours and 21 hours, like it was nothing. And it didnt stop there, from peru back to los angeles and from La back to thailand again. Oh man, if you could get some reward for long time traveling I would be the one collecting it.

But Ive came to realize something when i stepped out the airplane in phuket and that is that I wont be traveling now for a LOOONG time, except in thailand of course but that doesnt count. Two weeks alone in thailand may sound for some people booring and a waste of time. But let me tell you something, I havent had any alone time in almost 3 months now so it feels more than good just to relax and to not have anything scheduled except eating and sleeping.

During my 29 hour flight from La to Tokyo to Singapore to Phuket I slept maybe 5 or 6 hours. So the first day at the hotel I fell a sleep 13.00pm and woke up 00.00, and after that I couldnt do anything more then fall a sleep again, so I slept about 17 hours the first day in phuket, and the best part no jetlag what so ever. Its my fourth day here now and the for the first time in 3 months I dont feel like a tourist. let me explain hehe.. I wake up late every day, I dont go to the beach everyday, Im not looking for any adventures like sightseeing or any other tourist things available in the area, im just doing exactly what I want when I want and I love it. Basically it feels like being home. Just that Im living at the beach in a hotel and I dont have to make my own food hehe. Ive thought about this for a while now, but it gets more clear for me everyday. "I might not be rich, but some good choises in life I certainly did" otherwise I couldnt tell you this.

In three months Ive seen some incredible places that I never thought in my life I would get the chance to explore. For example Machu Picchu in peru, Ive read about in school but thats it. Seeing it with my own eyes made me get a whole new perspective of what it really was and is still after a 1000 years.
I do recemmend it too for those who are interested in history and well for others too. Ive seen 3 things in my life that really felt unreal seeing it. The first thing I saw was Burj khalifa in dubai, the second thing was the sand  dunes in Ica, Peru and the third thing is Machu picchu. Such amazing places..

Back to present time again. I just booked my second hotel here and I still have 9 nights before I head up to chiang mai preparing for songkran. This is the event Ive been waiting for since I left home in january. My first real "waterwar" and im so exited and looking forward to see what its all about. Just have this hard decision of what kind of gun im going to buy hehe.. a big ass gun or an elephant to ride on and spray water on everyone haha. I will let you know and hopefully upload some pictures..


until next time.. ciao ;)

sometimes you have to look back and see what made you go this far

Buenas noches mi amigos y amigas

hello again, from peru this time. Did vancouver, las vegas and los angeles allready and I thought to myself that its about time for me to tell you about all the things we've done this far. 

Let's start with vancouver. vancouver is a really beautiful city, so sad though that I went there this time of the year. Of course always when you travel to a place never seen by yourself you give it a first impression, and I must admit that my first impression wasn't the best, but it got better and better the longer I stayed there. Well of course, I left thailand and my girlfriend so I was a little bit sad when I started my trip to canada so that might have been one reason why the first impression wasn't the best. For me the first impression is very important not only when I travel but also when I meet new people. My goal from the very beginning when I stepped on the plane in finland until i go home was to improve my ability in meeting people and getting new friends and also and maybe the first priority to grow as a person and see life differently. But back to vancouver again. I'm not going to lie about this but it actually took me several days to really feel that I made a good choice choosing freezing cold canada instead of something warmer near thailand or even hawaii that I actually had in mind before I chose canada. The purpose of this trip was to meet up with this friend that Im going to travel with more or less until july. It's funny though because you know like in stores they have these sales every now and then, and I can almost compare this trip to that. I bet you've heard about buy 1, get one for free sales offer. ;) Well let me explain hehe. I told you about this friend, right? so he's the number 1 and the get one for free is another friend that also lives in vancouver and Im so pleased that I got to meet them both this far away from home. 

During my stay in vancouver I had time to go to a nhl game between the canucks and minnesota, visit squamish, rent a bike and bicycle around stanley park and some shopping of course. After my ten days in vancouver it was time to say goodbye to nicke and go with träisk and his girlfriend to las vegas which I never thought I would visit in my life :) 

Las vegas, according to what I've seen in the movies Vegas was exactly like that. A strip with everything you can imagine, luxury hotels, limousines everywhere, every luxury shop you can think ofand let's not forget the casinos haha. It felt unreal, so beautiful and so much to see in such a small place, I really loved vegas. It's expensive but hey it's vegas ;) Spent only two days there, in the hilton elara hotell which is maybe the best hotell I stayed in so far in my life. And I'm so happy even though I just got to sit in the lamborghini gallardo, but it really made my day. After two days in vegas we rented a car and drove to los angeles true the desert of nevada. Not much there to see on the road but it was truly a experience to put in your lifes resume. Well yeah I almost forgot. My first impression of vegas btw was "yeah I could live here" hehe.

Im sorry but its time to go to sleep now so I will continue this post about los angeles in a couple of days. Hope to see you soon again :) 

It's time to move on

Hello once again

A month has almost passed, and I've been enjoying my time here in Thailand to fullest.

Time flies faster than you can imagine, it feels like yesterday when we checked in in khao lak and 03.00 tomorrow I'm leaving this beautiful country, only for a short while tho and I'm happy that I know that I'm coming back soon.

These two past weeks I've spent with my girlfriend in Koh phangan, koh samui and phuket. 

Koh phangan was nice but the reason we went there was full moon party on haad rin beach, and believe me it was insane. Insanely fun :)

Met a lot of new friends from all around the world, and got an experience of a lifetime. I've heard rumours about the full moon party, but rumours is always rumours and now I can tell my own story about the event. 

Around 6 in the morning we decided to go back to the hotel that was 8 km away, and we booked our tickets to samui allready the day after stupid as we were haha. We set the alarmclock on 11.30 cuz we thought the pickup would be 12.30 but we were so wrong, 11.30 we heard someone knocking on the door while we were still in bed. I opened and the person tells us that the taxi is waiting for us. And we paniced, jumped out of bed and started packing like maniacs, BUT we made it. Hangovered I was trying to survive the ride to the pier without vomiting. And I did, luckily. We also decided that this is not going to happen again, BUT wait for it haha.

Next stop: Koh samui.

Koh samui was beautiful, the hotel we lived in was really nice. Maybe the best hotel we have had this far.

So if you ever go to koh samui I recommend you to sleep at the avenue samui ;)

The location of the hotel was about 1,5 km outside Chaweng centre. So we didn't even use a taxi, not even one day. The first day in town we bumped into som friends from spain we met on the minibus to koh phangan. They took us to this place called the arkbar for a beer and we talked about full moon party. Rest of our days in samui we spemt mostly walking around town and also met up with our spanish friends one more time. This was the last day so we had to go and sleep early because pickup was around 10 o'clock. I don't regret that we stayed up till 3 in the morning but again we overslept and woke up one minute before the taxi was leaving, but lucky as we were AGAIN we made it. But there ain't going to be a third time. So we left samui and went back to phuket, this time to phuket town for 4 nights. 

Today is my last day here and my gf left yesterday, so it's time to say goodbye now and travel to the other side ofthe world. My next destination will be Vancouver, Canada. Going back to the cold weather for some days, but I must admit that I'm really looking forward to some fresh air. It's going to be my first time I'm travelling to that side of the world. And guess how excited I am? ;) The next time I will be in thailand is in april and I'm only going to spend 10 days in Vancouver. The rest will remain a secret until the 22th of february ;) 

Follow M4thias_s on instagram for more exlusive info and pictures of my year abroad ;)

Thanks for reading 

Thailand <3

Hello again dear readers

At the moment I'm sitting in the hotel resteurang and just enjoying the warm weather and the sound of the waves. I've spent 7 days in khao lak, 2 days in phi phi and 5 days in karon with my parents and my surprise guest. I guess all of you, well at least the most of you have already figured out that my surprice guest is my girlfriend, but anyway we have had 14 absolutely amazing days together. But like every story something always ends, and my parents went home yesterday so now it's just us two left. It says that people are not made to stay at the same place forever so we decided to explore more of beautiful Thailand. Our first stop is Koh Phangan and haven't really explored nothing yet, meaning we have the best time in front of us. Next stop is going to be Koh Samui for a few days and after that we are heading back to Phuket to stay in a junior suite for 5 days before we go our separate way again. But hey that is when the real adventure starts, that I've been looking forward to for a long time now. But I must admit these two weeks have been so amazing and so needed. Now it feels like I'm ready for the next step, and explore the rest of the world. 

I won't tell you my whole plan, but at least my next destination after Thailand.. 

And my next destination is... hahah forget it. 

Not gonna happen.. 

until next time ;)

So I left Bali behind

I spent 8 days in Seminyak, Bali and believe me when I say. "it was time to move on" and after all Bali wasn't quite what I expected. It was fun at first but 5 days would have been enough. To much people, everything was so packed, the beach was awful, I have never seen so much rubbish in the same place except for a place where they stack garbage. But NOT on a beach.. not tourist friendly at all. And the traffic?&#¥ chaos chaos chaos. So I can tell you I'm very pleased to be in thailand now. Allready spent 3 days here with my parents, and my surprice guest ;) this place is just mindblowing. Everything here is just amazing, the weather, the BEACH, our hotel, my roommate ;) 

Haven't explored so much of this place yet, but at least we have some plans upcoming.

It's a quiet place and a really nice one to relax and just take time and go through things you wouldn't do anywhere else.

The place I'm talking about is orchid beach resort in khao lak, thailand. The first place of three where I'm going to take my parents. 

Who is my secret roommate? where am I going next? 

That my friends, you can read about in my upcoming post.

and pictures? well yeah I tried to fix it, but it wasnt that easy to do it, so if you want to see some pictures, then you can go and check out my instagram ;). 

M4thias_s 

and feel free to follow, it makes me just happy if you do ;)