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 Kota Barhu during sunset with heavy thunder
showers in the
near vicinity, thereby this hazy, crimson light percolating through clouds and mist. |
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For more thundery pics please click on the cloud below!
 The Perenthians facing the
Malaysian mainland.
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This is probably the most beautiful place we´ve ever been to and it´s called the Perenthian Islands. Towering thunderclouds over the Malaysian mainland to the west are a common site and the lukewarm water shines like gossamer of pearl as on this photo. The sunsets are quite unbelievable with the Milky way rapidly emerging out of the darkening sky while the sun loses itself among the thunderheads in the distance. |
 Same view though a little more
to the left and a bit later.
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Besides music and art I am, among other things, deeply interested in meteorology, not least to mention that of the tropics. This kind of weather I find both exhilarating and exciting for its beauty and recurring displays of awesome power. The doldrums is the region around the equator where a prevailing upsurge of hot and moist air is caused to evaporate into heavy rain clouds. It´s because of this mechanism that we can exist, or else the atmosphere would have been almost completely dry all over the planet. |
 Inside a Burmese temple in Kota
Barhu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The marble faced goddess shows us the
palm of her hand as an act of conveying wisdom to her disciples.
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 In Bangkok, Thailand, there are many statues like these around, sometimes cluttering entire temples and decorating gardens and courtyards. In several ways these sculptures remind us of those in southern India where the temples are covered from top to bottom with all sorts of colourful demons and characters taken from the Mahabarata and other religious scripts. In Sokothai in the middle of Thailand we found huge statues standing around among the many half crumbled ruins of the ancient city. And even out in the middle of nowhere when we´re travelling by train, gigantic marble white or golden Buddha's pop up out of the woods gazing solemnly out in to the distance. |
 Near Khao Sok national park in southern
Thailand there is a huge dam
with mountain peaks surrounding it looking as if they had been painted
on a kakomeno by some famous Chinese artist.
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 A fishing boat and thunder heads
It´s popular in the
Perenthians to snorkel among
corals and study the wildlife. We saw both turtles, sharks, swordfish
and at one occasion I was almost eaten alive by the flamboyant schools
of fish that sometimes gather around you like a swarm of bees!
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 Ebb tide on the coast line of
Penang, western Malaysia.
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This is a
teeming hot place to be in, the skyscraper city of Georgetown in
Penang, Malaysia. It´s hot and sticky the year round as it most
usually is in this tropical part of the world. On this pic you can see
a scattered fleet of boats being temporarily stranded by the ebb tide,
something which occurs on a regular basis. And in the background the
skyline of the city reflects itself in the shallow puddles lining the
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 Elephant ride in Thailand.
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Like
all
good tourists do we hitched a ride on an elephant, a well rehearsed
adventure which follows one of the heavily beaten tracks through the
rain forest of Kao sohk national park in southern Thailand. But
even though everybody does it, I´m tempted to say it´s not
as safe and convenient as it looks since these kings of the jungle have
a tendency to make you wobble about in a most hazardous manner while
they're making their way up and down ditches and riverbanks. However,
it´s good fun and it definitely is the best way to have a close
rendezvous with the jungle. |
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TRAVELS!