EXPERIENCED BY ROUVEN LESKOW

The challenge to catch every swell and sunset. 

After i said my family at the airport  goodbye starts my 14 hours flight from snowy Frankfurt to Phuket. I arrived at the dry session and the temperatures differences surprised me. After i collected myself picked me Sakon up and drive me to the company. Timo who worked for a month here, show me the Factory and gave me the first impressions about my work here. After that i moved into my super new and clean bungalow and i eat to dinner with Timo at the beach with an amazing sunset to the ocean.

My first days was very relaxed and i had enough time to acclimatize. Martin show me the beach at the memories bar where we grabbed the boards and he taught me how to surf.  It was a lot of fun until it was dark and a total change for me after my hard exams. 

With the time grew up my surfings skills and i surf better and better. Three weeks after my arrival, i started my weekend trip with the motorbike to Krabi. I took my bed in a hostel and drunk some beer with backpackers there . On saturday i booked  a boat cruise to four islands around Krabi to snorkel and swimming around there. On sunday i drove to Tiger Cave close to Krabi and after 1600 steps and 2 bottles water i hiked up to the viewpoint.  The view was absolutely breathtaking!  I hiked down, drove back to Khao Lak and was done for the day.

How is the work and live here ? 

The typical morning starts by me with a bowl of oats and bananas on the terrace with smooth music. If we had some waves, i catch them with the employees from the factory. After that we go to the factory. 

It's now 8:15 am, everyone says "sa-waa-dii cap" with a smile and we begin with the work. I like the working atmosphere here. Everyone makes jokes, has good mood and we laughing together. I would say we are a perfect team that spend time at and after the work. At 12 o'clock we make Lunch and catch some thai food at our own canteen. It tastes every time awesome and is not to spicy if you new in Thailand. But if you want, you can test your spicy skills until you cry. Two words, Papaya salad! After the good Lunch we work until six o'clock and catch maybe the last waves with daylight and surfing into the sunset. You have to know that surfing is the most important thing here and it happens sometimes that we stop the work earlier for that. 

On saturday and sunday is free time. If you want you can cill out, read a book, go surfing or travel around the region here. So it never gets boring here. 

After work, my fellow interns and I like to do different things everyday. Sometimes we just lounge around the bungalow and watch some netflix, or other nights we go out to the beach or the night market. Every day is a new adventure and I enjoy every moment of it.

The beach is super beautiful, especially during sunset, and never fails to amaze me. There are two night markets, which operate on alternating days of the week, which are both supr cool, with new food to try, and a variety of different shops that pretty much sell anything you need or want. I was amazed by the hussle and bustle of the area, and I have gone several times in my time here.

My Son Kran trip around the South from Thailand

 On my last there is started a diving trip to the two tiny Islands witch are stay under nature protection. It's unbelievable there! I saw Turtles, reef sharks and see horses there. If you want so see the corals on the ground you have to push the fishes away.

After my diving trip i went to Koh Lanta and it was completely different to Phi Phi. So quiet and relaxed. I got in touch with two Americans and we checked the island out with the scooters. By the way the sun burn at midday so strong that the sun cream gets useless. At first we drove to a waterfall and after an hour of a Flip Flop walk trough the jungle, we got it. After that searched we a place to cill out and drove to the beach.  The island isn't really big but we left so often the right way. We left the island together early in the morning to Koh Tao.

Chill Weekend In Khao Lak

Bangkok !!!