4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: May 2006
Location: surfing in a room
Posts: 2,188
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I´m back from a weekend of pure awesomeness.
- We had to take the ferry to get over to that island. The town from where the ferry leaves has two piers to board the cars and trucks. A departure schedule doesnt exist, your basically hanging out by the sea and flip a coin where to wait when the boat comes near. Like 20 mins before estimated departure our guide informed us, that he´d get us a local to drive the second rental car onto the ferry, b/c we prob couldnt handle the rush. We stared confused at him, but agreed, not knowing what was about to come. We chose the wrong pier and when the boat was about to land we were racing thru that lil town, just to find like 25 cars and two truck already lined up, prepared to fight for 16 to 20 free slots on the boat. Since our driver is an insane bedouin he just passes all the waiting 4wd to be 2nd car in "lane 2", driver in our second car is first in "lane 3". The ferry releases the arrivees and suddenly all hell breaks loose. Im not joking, Barcelona downtown during rush hour was a piece of cake compared to what went down there, everyone is honking, not accepting a millimeter free space to the car in front of them, all those huge japanese suv pushing and shoving and we´re caught right in the middle sitting in tiny toyota rental car with an insane bedouin driver who doesnt speak english except for "goot" and "fish". A Land cruiser gets pushed over the edge and is two centimeters away from falling into the ocean, a truck tries to back up onto the fairy and im scared shitless.
- While we were waiting for the ferry a crowd of dolphins swam along, first time in my life Ive seen those fuckers irl
- People staring at us tells us there arent many skinny white guys around this island, not counting ourselves we met zero tourists. Only one hotel which appeared to be closed. Landscape, ocean and beaches are mint
- Our guide is a local fisherman, really cool guy who can say "ho a u?", "feesh" and "ferry goot". Apparently, everyone in this area is named Ghalib. Ghalib tries to teach us fishing with little to none success, therefore he proudly presents what he caught that day. The fish he brings for our bbq would cost a shipload of money back home.
- Everyone goes nuts about those turtles, so where are they? See, baby turtles come out at full moon and today there isnt a moon to be seen anywhere. Adult turtles are hard to catch, since there are like 3 per night coming and the turtle beach spans over kilometers. Luckily our guide is mr awesome and finds us a huge turtle (really fucking huge) on its way back to the ocean.
- We hang out by beach and sleep there. Could well be the first time in my life Im sleeping under the sky and not be completely wrecked.
Ghalib provided is with delicious crabs
thats me in the desert
thats me with fred the turtle
thats the view i had when i woke up. bish!
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