From Borneo I continued full speed in my plan and after
three hours sleep I flew with the first morning flight to Kuala Lumpur to spend
one day with sightseeing and take then the evening flight to Bankgkok. I had
everything prepared so I knew how to take a train from the airport to the city,
how to go with elevated monorail from train station to Petronas towers and
which way to walk back to see the city’s highlights. Spotless!! 
Petronas towers, once the tallest building in the world were
spectacular, but I knew that the better view than from its connecting bridge is
from the slightly smaller TV tower, but which is on the hill, so you can
actually see the towers from almost above J Amazing!! I spent a while there too. Then I slowly
walked through the city streets to Chinatown, Sri Mahamariamman temple, Central
artisan market and finished next to National mosque and the world’s biggest
covered bird-arium!
There unfortunately some stomach bug from a Chinese burger
on the street came to life and after spending an hour on the toilet I had just
enough energy to take a taxi to the train and back to airport!! When I landed
in Bangkok I was still somewhere between, so the three hour drive to Pranburi
even in spacious private van was a nightmare. But the next day after a good
sleep in a fresh beach and jungle air I felt quite ready to finally relax,
recover, enjoy and have proper holidays!
Pranburi is a forgotten small village on the east coast of
the Thailand gulf. But they have good and reliable wind conditions, so that’s
why one Swedish entrepreneur Jay set up a kiteboarding center there and was
organizing ITC courses to become kiteboarding licensed instructor. So actually
these were not “proper” holidays…I came to study J I had nine days in there to do couple of preparatory
trainings like First Aid and then five day ITC course.
“Jiri…you should get a bike when you are here…that you can
move around” said Jay and I had to agree that it was a good idea. “I call one
for you” he added and I was making myself ready to pedal on a crappy city
bicycle. What was my surprise that a lady brought a Yamaha 125cc scooter!! I
have never in my life driven a motorcycle before so I was a bit cautious and
afraid, but after a day I was fully enjoying riding slowly on the village
streets with the wind in my hair. Holiday in Thailand couldn’t be complete
without a scooter. Like this I was easily going from my jungle bungalow to have
breakfast in open air restaurant, then pick up my kite gear, ride to the beach,
then for Pad Thai noodle lunch…relax next to the pool, do some homework study,
have Pad Thai dinner and go to a bar to have some beers…wonderful times and I
felt sooo relaxed and kind of careless and free J
Even when the ITC course started, which was more intensive
than I thought with theory and practical real teaching sessions from 9am to
5pm, I didn’t feel bothered or tired. The peaceful and easy going atmosphere
spurting from everything around you made the course really fun and enjoyable.
Of course it was mainly because of an excellent and experienced instructor Ika
from Serbia, who made all the information interesting and useful, so I felt
that after the course I didn’t only get the Level 1 instructor license, but I
became better kiteboarder and learned a lot of things about the equipment,
environment and teaching techniques which will make feel better about the
instructor job I’m planning to do back in Qatar over weekends.
In such conditions as on Thailand beach the days easily
merge into one, so before I could realize it there was my final day and
departure back home, to Qatar, to work… L I had an overnight flight from Bangkok so I had one
more morning to left. I chose to finally go to a dominant rock at the end of
the beach and try to climb on top of it. Fortunately here was a nice trail up
so I could enjoy the view and breathe the peace of that place once more from
above.
Standing on the top of the mountain and looking to the
distance I recalled what happened in the last two weeks. Everything was great,
the race, the climb and this chillout and went far beyond my wildest
expectations!! I wish all my trips are like this…but wait…happened once, so it
can happen again! So let’s do it…Let’s do another Veni-Vidi-Vici holidays J
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