THAILAND

Already some pictures from our amazing trip. Text and pics from the prof. photographer and the underwater-camera soon...

Flooded surrounding of Bangkok from the plane

 One of the temples, Wat Arun, Bangkok

Nikolay and I in a Tuk-Tuk

 Young monks which whom we had a very interessting discussion

 Me climbing in Crazy horse

 The crazy horse and Nikolay

 Really tasty fruits....mhmmm

 Elephant riding

 One of the tribes of northern Thailand: Big Ear

 Orchid farm

 What Phra That Doi Suthep

 On the way by motorbike

 Titanic feeling :-)

 Fishing with friends of Nikolay

 Chicken island

 The view from our favorit mulit-pitch: Humanality

 Our beach: Tonsai

 Splits needed to reach the tufa

 That's how you look like after climbing :-)

 Our home during the stay in Tonsai: Dream Valley Resort

Magic atmosphere after a heavy rain

 Small holes from small crabs, which bring out small balls

Just happy!

 Nikolay playing with Jarik (the cuttest child ever!)

 Tonsai roof: the climbing crag just next to the beach

 no words needed

 :-)

With our friends Kristen, Stephan, Chris & Anna

 Fire Show

 Nikolay in Jai Dum, 8b, Dum's Kitchen

 :-)

 Our luck ballon

 Deep water soloing: me in the roof and Nikolay on the top

 2nd spot for DWS

 Nikolay in the traverse

 Our typical breakfast: fruits with yoghurt +/- müesli

 Short introduction to diving...

 ...and let's dive!

 Boxfish...so cute!

Nemo ;)

Nikolay and me with our buddy

 Goodbye atmosphere in Tonsai

Perfect autumn- weekend in Ticino

On friday evening Nikolay and I, with Denise Wenger and Tobias were heading to Ponte Brolla, Ticino, where we met with some friends: Felicitas Feller, Fränzi Feller and Sigi. After some spaghettis we went to bed in our tents on the camping Piccolo Paradiso. The next day some other friends, partly out of the expedition team from the SAC, and Steffi, joined us. So we were a hug group climbing and having fun in the sector Prato in the Valle Maggia. On sunday we enjoyed the perfect climbing weather in the sector Russo.

 Prato, Valle Maggia, Ticino

 Nikolay in the 7c+, Prato

Steffi in the 6a, Russo

Everybody around the campfire

Biking in Gran Canaria

With my parents I went the last week to Gran Canaria; an island know from the most people as one where lying on the beach and partying is the main activity...but we get to know this island from an other point of view. In the small but sweet Finca "Villa del Monte" in St. Brigida we found a perfect home and got a perfect service from Petra, the owner. Our daily program consisted of 4 parts: 1) Bike tour with the canarian mountain biking champion. He showed us very nice pathes and we did a lot of "crazy" downhill. 2) Siesta 3) Beach 4) Eating a tasty dinner :-)

One day we also went to the south, to see the dunes and another day we went to the north to enjoy the completely diffrent landscape there.

A huge thanks to my parents for this amazing week!

All the "Bayard's" on a beautiful biking trail in the north

 

Las Palmas, the capital, with its houses of different colors

 

The name Gran Canaria comes from the spanish word "can"= dog

The downhill part

A view in the south part of the island

The dunes in the south, close to Maspalomas

The last vulcan which was active on Gran Canaria

Dinner in the Finca