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FREEDIVING ON SURIN ISLAND, THAILAND | มาลองดำน้ำที่หมู่เกาะสุรินทร์กันเถอะ

June 30, 2016 No Comments

Freediving on Surin Island, Thailand | Bee's Journey Travel and Lifestyle Blog

Freediving is for the free souls. การฟรีไดฟ์ เป็นสิ่งที่คนมี free soul จะหลงรักมาก (ภาษาไทยอยู่ด้านล่าง)

If you happen to be on one of Thailand’s most beautiful diving spots with a friend who is a freediving expert then you are in luck. “Mu Koh Surin”, officially named “Surin Islands National Marine Park”, has a phenomenal range of corals and sea animals. As a first-timer hence a complete beginner at Freediving without any experiences in Scuba diving, I felt incredibly blessed to be learning to do it here.

MOUNTAIN & LAND, OCEAN

MOKEN STYLE: SEA GYPSY WAY OF LIFE | วิถีชีวิตชาวมอแกน

June 10, 2016 1 Comment

Moken Village on Surin Island, Phang Nga, Thailand. หมู่บ้านมอแกน หมู่เกาะสุรินทร์ อุทยานแห่งชาติ พังงา

Despite the fact that there have been more and more tourists visiting the island, the Mokens are truly island childs still. In this blog I have put together a few footage and images of them doing their “Moken things”: building huts, fishing, picking up wild fruits in the woods, and simply chillin’!

ถึงแม้ว่าในหลาย ๆ ปีที่ผ่านมา มีนักท่องเที่ยวพรั่งพรูกันไปเยี่ยมหมู่เกาะสุรินทร์มากขึ้น แต่ชาวมอแกนก็ยังรักษาวิถีชีวิตดั้งเดิมของเค้าไว้อยู่ตลอดเวลา ในโพสนี้บีรวบรวมวีดีโอและรูปการใช้ชีวิตต่าง ๆ ของชาวมอแกนมาให้ดูกันนะคะ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการจับปลา เก็บผลไม้ป่า สร้างกระท่อม รวมไปถึงยามมอแกนชิวด้วย ลองดูกันค่ะ 🙂

MOUNTAIN & LAND, OCEAN

BONDING WITH THE MOKEN SEA GYPSIES | มาเล่นมาชิวกับชาวมอแกนกันดีกว่า!

June 2, 2016 No Comments

Moken Sea Gypsy Surin Island Thailand Travel Adventure

After a few days of adjusting-ourselves-to-primitive-island-life, it was time to properly bond with the lovely Moken Sea Gypsies. We came up with games, taught them to sing, and simply hang out with them, trying to learn as much as possible about them and their way of living. Let’s have a look at a video on how we did this:

หลังจากที่บีและเพื่อน ๆ ได้เริ่มมีความคุ้นเคยกับการใช้ชิวิตบ้าน ๆ แบบชาวเกาะแล้ว พวกเราก็เริ่มมาทำความรู้จักกับชาวมอแกนกันค่ะ เรามีการให้เด็ก ๆ เล่นเกมส์ สอนน้อง ๆ ร้องเพลงกันอย่างสนุกสนานด้วย ลองดูวิดีโอกันนะค้า:

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FIRST GLANCE OF NORTH & SOUTH SURIN ISLANDS | THAILAND

April 25, 2016 1 Comment

Moken women or local sea gypsies of Surin Island, Thailand

The sound of the calm ocean woke me up as a warm, gentle breeze with a hint of salt hit the tip of my nose. With my eyes still closed, I was reminded that I had just spent my first night on an island.

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ARRIVING AT THE MOKEN VILLAGE, SURIN ISLAND | THAILAND

March 21, 2016 3 Comments

Last year I had a spontaneous trip to the Surin Island National Park in the South of Thailand, and this trip has and will surely remain my Top 10 favourite trips of all time.

Accompanied by my childhood friend and her freediving instructor, I hopped on a speed boat from Phang-Nga province in the West coast and headed off to our destination. Just like most tour boats, there is a mix of foreign and Thai travellers and some staff from the touring company. I however spotted a small group of young men who didn’t look like visitors from abroad. They didn’t look like guides either.

They all had very similar features, height, big shiny eyes and beautiful dark skin. They spoke some sort of dialogue in which didn’t at all sound familiar to me. My freediving instructor then explained that they were the “Mokens”.

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MY ISLAND ADVENTURE TRIP–AN INTRODUCTION

March 1, 2016 No Comments

Have you ever wondered how it is like living on an island 60Km, off-shore with no electricity, water supply network or phone reception?

Last year I visited a sea gypsy village near to where my friends and I stayed for our getaway. I never knew a small beach front on an island had been hiding a tribe of hundred with a primitive way of life all along.

And I wonder how their everyday-life was like. To be inhabiting on a piece of heaven like this, it is surely a blessing. However, when it is rainy season the Monsoon storm had no mercy for small long tail boats nor for human.

But still I would dream to live on this island.

MOUNTAIN & LAND, Uncategorized

A VISIT TO HMONG HILLTRIBE NEW YEAR MARKET

January 15, 2016 No Comments

One of the places I always make sure I visit when I travel is local markets. Why? Because it is one of the best way to learn (more) about the culture there.

Towards the end of my Rosa’s Road Trip in Phetchabun, Thailand, we decided to pop by to see how the “Hmong” tribe were getting down for Thai New Year.

MOUNTAIN & LAND, Uncategorized

VIBRANT COLOURS OF CHIANG RAI FLOWER FESTIVAL 2015

December 24, 2015 No Comments

Winters are beautiful, cold and white, but without a single flower in sight.

I found myself waking up in Chiang Rai, where Thai people travel to in our cold season to experience something somewhat close to “Winter”. The “wintery” weather here isn’t so cold but cool enough for certain types of flowers—categorised as winter flowers among the Thais—to blossom.

A van picked me up from the Dusit Island Resort and headed straight down to one of the landmarks of Chiang Rai city, “Tung Garden”. This was where the vision of varying vibrant colours struck me, and that vision was real.