Hot News - March 2006 (Ranong/Thailand, March 8th, 2006)
- Website statistics: In February we were able to welcome on our website 31'246 visitors from 115 different
- countries who did 516'894 hits. (January approximately - the counter was partly failing =
- 32'928 visitors (= record) - 108 countries - 555'152 hits (= record))
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- Probably it might have been noticed on our homepage that we are in Southern Thailand since March 5th, -
- exactly in Ranong at the Andaman Coast. Actually, it was planned to enter from here Myanmar, which lies just
- across the river mouth, separating the two countries. But unfortunately, it didn't work out as planned. Two days
- before, the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok told us that we have to deliver a detailed list about all the locations
- we intend to visit every day, asked for by the Ministry of Defense. We told them that we don't like to comply
- with this request, because if we enjoy a place more than expected, we might want to spend also more time
- there as planned ahead. Probably this issue could have been solved. But a new one popped up: As we asked
- the customs authorities in Ranong about a way how to ship our car over to Kawthoung, we were told by them
- with determination - as well as also by phone by from the Burmese side - that this is absolutely impossible. But
- we don't yet accept defeat!
- As it is now for sure that the procedure to get a permit for visiting Myanmar with our own car - which we initiated
- on September 18th, 2005, in Singapore - will still continue for some time, we decided to drive to Myanmar only in
- November (in case we shall ever get the necessary paperwork done), because the heat in this region is getting
- slowly but steadily unbearable - the rainy season and hence the monsoon isn't too far away. Thus we are working
- in the meantime on two new issues: the Philippines and Indonesia. But both countries involve again a whole range
- of bureaucracy for bringing a tourist vehicle into their country, even if it's only for a short temporary visit. But we
- hope that we will not encounter too many difficulties and shall finally succeed.
- The relevant applications to the Ministries of Tourism are already on its way. In the meantime, we hope that we
- shall finally find the time to put the pictures and reports from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos here on our
- website online. Also the 1'600 pictures - scanned already last year in Kuala Lumpur - are just waiting to be
- completed and placed on the Internet.
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Las Vegas (Millennium change) Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 84 - April 97)
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