THE TRUTH BEHIND THE INSTAGRAM PICTURE

Instagram pictures are just pure moments of perfectness, fortunate captures in the exact right moment, non?

Well.

DAYS OF CRYING, STILL

I'm currently in a state of nothingness.
I wake up. I eat breakfast. I lay by the pool until the building ahead starts spreading long monsters of shadows over the mosaic tiles framing the water.

I go back to the room. I shower. I scrub, every bit of my body, as I see it darken and darken for each day.

I run my finger through my hair. I really do need a haircut. Moana-style by all means, but it just doesn't seem to happen for me, that wavy laidbackness. The split ends are making their way up, further and further towards my scalp.
And then I remember nobody in the world cares about that.

I put on clothes, make the hard decision if I'm going to wear a bra today or not. It's usually not.
As said, nobody will care.

BOOBIE-GRABBING & ZEN-LIVING

Tonight, I woke up with a shock. Across my chest an arm had landed all of a sudden and I felt a tiny, sleeping body come closer to me. I pushed Jennifer away again, silently laughing about this being her second attempt to second-base me in her sleep, and soon went back to dreaming.

Next time I woke up it was quarter past eight and my girls were eager to get to the breakfast restaurant.
"Big day today!" Jennifer shouted from the bathroom. "Wakey wakey! Doi Suthep before noon, remember?"
I did, even though my body had no intention of co-operating today.
I had been up until 2.30 that night, chatting with the friends back at home. The time difference really sucked at times. When it was pitch black night for me, Claudia and Simon were off celebrating our weekly tradition of The Sunday Pizza, and I missed them like crazy. They were the biggest part of the routines I do actually miss, the everyday fikas and the long, long, long, neverending, talks.

But outside sun was shining Thai-style; a warm, glowy light that made all of my Instagram pictures look temperature-enhanced, and breakfast was waiting for no one after 10 am.

We filled our plates with fruit and gorged up on coffee and french toast and hurried vacay-style, meaning: not so much.

FAVORITE SPOTS IN ASIA - AND WORST....

For Sofie 
en voor Lovisa,

who are also suffering from 
being-stuck-in-Sweden-when-
you-want-to-explore-the-world 
-aches

TALES OF ASIA: Day 13-16

What have we been up to since our last entry, you might ask yourselves. You might walk around at home, anxiously pacing back and forth trying to wrap your head around what we'll do next.

Well, worry no more. Here's a recaps.

ON THE TOP OF DOI INTHANON

Oh, what a beautiful day this was.

We were on a daytrip in DOI INTHANON NATIONAL PARK,
situated about an hour from Chiang Mai centre. We were picked up at our hotel and driven around the national park for a whole day, but the highlight was no doubt the beautiful temples, this breathtaking sight of the King and Queen Pagoda, iconically placed on the top of a mountain, close to the absolute highest spot in Thailand.

HOTEL REVIEW: Rainforest Boutique Resort, Chiang Mai

Here in Chiang Mai, we stayed most of our nights in a hotel called Rainforest Boutique Hotel. Here's our thoughts about it.

VISITING ELEPHANT NATURE PARK

WARNING! 
If you don't like heaps and loads of pictures of the most magnificent animal walking on our planet, this ain't your post. If you on the other hand requested it, e.g you are my sister, you're in for a treat.

OUR STAY IN RABEANG PASAK TREEHOUSE

We've spent the last couple of days being closer to the nature than Jonathan ever been while camping with the boyscouts as a kid.
Kind of.

WE HAVE STAYED IN A TREEHOUSE!

CLIMBING BUA THONG

WHAT: 

A three floor waterfall where you can climb all the way through it due to the un-slippery limestones (thereof the name). 

TALES OF ASIA: Day 4 - 6

Hi there. Long time no see hah?

We've been good. We've been lazy. We've been parking our butts on the sunbeds besides the pool.
That is, of course, after we'd fixed that
we've been

really

really

stupid.

MISTAKE NUMBER #3:

NOT DOUBLE-CHECKING WHAT AIRPORT 

THE FLIGHT IS ACTUALLY LEAVING FROM

And I cant stress this enough unless you're walking around with 2380 THB you just HAVE to throw away on something completely unneccesary.

TRAVELING CONSCIOUSLY: Elephants in Thailand

Source: Elephant Nature Park

So I started to read about traveling, thinking "exploring the world" is just another word for Rich Western People trying to get a bit of enlightment at the cost of another lands culture, traditions and nature. I've read countless traveling blogs the last year, and two things strikes me: