9 months now, my perfect circle trip

Hi blog,

you know what? today is April 21st, it means that I am on the road from 9 months, that's a great deal! If you look back at my trip, you can see that it is quite strange that exactly after 9 months I am close to achieve an almost perfect circle trip, perfect as a newborn baby, these are the details:
I traveled overland from Hong Kong to Singapore through China (up to the border with Tibet and back south in 4 months), Vietnam (from North to the Central Highlands in 3 weeks), Laos (all Laos, from South to North in 3 weeks), Thailand (from North to South in 2 months), Malaysia (from border with Thailand up to Singapore in 1 month), then flew to Philippines where I am staying now and in 1 week I will fly back to Hong Kong and then stay in China again for a while.

Luca, well done!

Here below I put some photos of the missing photos about the past 4 months, since I start an impressive beach life!

Enjoy

Boracay - Philippines

Kuala Lumpur, Petronas Tower by night - Malaysia

Puerto Galera - Philippines

My lovely hut at Charlie Bar on Ko Lanta - Thailand

Boracay white beach - Philippines

Chaweng beach on Ko Samui - Thailand

Sugar Beach on Sipalay - Philippines

Sipalay - Philippines

Sunset on Langkawi - Malaysia

Ko Tao - Thailand

Ao Phang - Thailand

Langkawi  - Malaysia

Penang - Malaysia

My secret beach, somewhere 40 minutes bike from Krabi  - Thailand

Lamai beach on Ko Samui - Thailand

Ko Lanta - Thailand

Cameron Highlands - Malaysia

Green Laguna (The Beach by Alex Garland) on Ang Thong Marine Nationa Park - Thailand

Pulau Perhetian - Malaysia

Pulau Perhetian durin Monsoon - Malaysia

Long Beach on Ku Jum - Thailand, great place

Penang - Malaysia

waiting the ferry on Ko Pha Ngan - Thaiand, lot of waiting

Penang - Malaysia

Sunset over Ko Phi Phi from Ko Jum - Thailand

Langkawi - Malaysia

The Beach

I am reading the Beach by Alex Garland and I found a very interesting quote about travelling: "If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens."

... and another one about Philippines, where I am actually travelling: " I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well-ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home."

Well, what to say Alex, I am completely with you man!

By the way blog, you look very poor, sorry, I promise that as soon as I can I upload the tons of picture I got.

See you

Philippines Vs Thailand

after 10 days in Philippines, I really start to love traveling here, I find it much more interesting than the overrated, overpriced and over-touristic Thailand, I find nice food too, even if all the travelers I met before warned me about it, I love the way they made all pork and chicken so damn dirty and tasty. The only difficult here is about moving from 1 place to another, what should take 4 or 5 hours can easily take more than 10, and if I have to think 1 word about how it is traveling in Philippines, I think that the right one is "sticky". Now I am in Boracay, tomorrow try to move on Negros island, where I suppose to spend the remaining days on my visa.

see you!

Pulau Perhetian

well, well, well... after a couple if week I come back here to update my trip. I spent all my time since I left Cameron Highlands in Pulau Perhetian, I planned to go there for 4-5 days, doing some good diving and then going slowly to KL, Malaka and Singapre to catch my flight for Manila, but I did not consider one thing: the monsoon season, that was supposed to finish in February and instead it did not finish at all. So I had to reschedule everything, I decided to skip all the middle steps and to go to directly to Singapore from Pulau Perhetian (not really a good idea...).

But it was not bad, I finally learnt what is the meaning of Monsoon Season (at least 7-8 hours of rain per day, all days), I met some very good travelers and friends, now I know for sure that Lonely Planet sucks, I did skinny deep after 5 years, I finally did some good diving my last days, I found that Bergamo-Pescaro is a great connection, and I know that for the future it will be better to have leave some security time if I have to catch a flight.

Now, after 18 hours of continuous and incredible trip, I am in Manila, ready to go through Philippines for 3 weeks.

As soon as possible I upload some shots!

Bye