Day 2887 | Unexpeted Morning Hike & Time With Friend

Thursday was one of my must active and packed days so far here in Thailand. As I planned to join an afternoon Muay Thai Boxing Class taking a friend with me. So I had the morning free and took that opportunity to take a hike to one of the viewing points here. I left my room at around 08:30 and quickly felt I should have gone earlier as it was quite hot with a lot of sun.

I expected it more to be a walk inbetween the trees but it was just a hardened road that went up quite steeply. So when I found a bench in the shadow, I took a short break and an onder guy who was also walking came up to me to talk. He was an Englishmen who has been living there for over 20 years who does the walk multiple times each week so he offerd me to show around toward some of the viewing points. The first one on top up the rock formation on the left in the main post image was by far the most spectacular one.

There were quite some monkeys there and he brought a stick in case some of them came closer or in case there were snakes so I instantly felt a lot more protected. We ended up going to 4 different viewing points.

On our way back he said he was going to walk his regular route which also included part of the jungle and asked if I wanted to come along. Since I enjoy hiking and had time enough I gladluy took the offer so we headed out for a really nice walk which lasted around 3 hour in total.

We had a drink once back in the city and we parted our ways once we got to the train station. He didn't have a cellphone but said I could always meet him at the top viewing point around 09:30 most days.

Once I was back home, I had done 22640 steps having walked over 3.5 Hours.

This was just the start of the day though, I got a quick shower and put on some sunscreen heading out to cool down a bit in the swimming pool. As my friend was going to join a 16:00 Muay Thai Boxing class and was done with School around 14:00, she came over early and we had well over an hour to kill before the Thai Boxing Class. After taking a bit while I had music on she did some homework while I took a small recovery nap from the morning activity. The Boxing class so far was one of my better but she suffered a lot. Afterward we headed back to my place to each take a quick shower and we went out to eat in my favorite restaurant in my area for some great and very affordable food.

We had a nice seat and the meal along with drinks only was under 10€ for everything combined. There was a powerout just the moment we got our food and we had a great place still with some light there and a view on the street. We aimed to play a bit of pool there bit with no lights we had to skip that but went to a bar in the area where there was a table free and did so there. Once back in my place we had spend over 5 hours together which was very enjoyable.

Next Day Goals: It's 08:20 at the moment so not that much time before the morning Thai Boxing class. I kind of feel like skipping it, but at the same time have no alternative. I normally will meet with someone new in the evening for dinner but it has yet to be confirmed. So I will see where the day takes me.