Hot News - November 2005 (November 14, 2005)
- Website statistics: In October we were able to welcome on our website 30'039 (= record) visitors
- from 111 different countries who did 535'946 (= record) hits
- (September = 22'996 visitors - 118 (= record) countries - 423'456 hits)
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- A few days ago, we left Malaysia with mixed feelings. On one side, we were glad to know that we now can
- expect the more beautiful dry season up North; on the other side, we also enjoyed to be spoiled from different
- parties in Kuala Lumpur. Although we used the rainy time to scan 1'600 additional slides from our journey
- around the world, it will take quite another while until these lovely pictures will be online.
- Now we are "on the road again" - direction Bangkok. The highway border point between Malaysia and
- Thailand was easygoing and crossed within the shortest of time. But suddenly, nothing was anymore readable,
- as the Thais have not only another religion - namely Buddhism and not anymore Islam like the Malaysians - but
- besides the different language also a complete distinct script. Unfortunately, English is rarely understood. The
- Southern Thai border region, where often religiously motivated terror acts happen, is quickly and safely
- crossed with a 50-miles speed.
- And suddenly, we awake in a fascinating region of temples, which shows its peak in the city of Nakhon Si
- Thammarath - also known to be the religious center in the South of Thailand. This fact is often overlooked, due
- to the countless beaches in the Western neighborhood of Phuket and Krabi or the Easterly island of Ko Samui,
- all situated on the Malay Peninsula.
- Shortly, we are going to approach the next mega city of Bangkok (8 millions) after having visited just recently
- those of Hong Kong (7m), Singapore (5m) and Kuala Lumpur (4m). Actually we would prefer to be more
- "out" in the nature, but because we are intending to explore with our own car some "off-the-beaten tracks" -
- i.e.Vietnam and Myanmar (Burma) - , the unavoidable bureaucracy for these still difficult countries makes it
- necessary to dive into the traffic chaos of these nightmare agglomerations again.
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since 1982
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