My 5 Most Hilarious Travel Photos

So, here’s my entry for Ian’s Most Hil­ari­ous Travel Photo Con­test over at Brave New Trav­eler.

Hofbräuhaus

This photo is from a time when there wasn’t a Hof­bräuhaus at every corner of the world. When I walked past this estab­lish­ment, I just had to get my pic­ture taken with this funny Thai maetre d’ in his tra­di­tional Bav­arian costume.

UW Dance

My friend Bibi­ana took this pic­ture on what was prob­ably the most bor­ing dive of my life. Well, it was until Bibi­ana star­ted an under­wa­ter fight, rip­ping my mask off, try­ing to turn off my air, pulling on my fins. This fight even­tu­ally led to a com­plete under­wa­ter equip­ment exchange (except our wet­suits and dive com­puters). This is my vic­tory dance photo…

Mermaid

My friend Åsa wants to be reborn a mer­maid in her next life. On Seraya, where the only things you can do all day is sip shandy and watch the cook chase an unlucky chicken for din­ner through the bushes, I decided to make her dream come true in this life. And for good meas­ure I gave her a couple of huge boobs as well…

Scavenger

Some friends and me had organ­ized a huge bbq on the beach with tasty par­rot fish, red and white snap­per, loads of tuna and tons of squid. As soon as we were fin­ished an army of little scav­engers marched in and claimed their share…

Snake-Crow-Corpse-Wine

The only way this Viet­namese bar­keeper would show us what exactly was in that jar apart from the snakes was to prom­ise him to order a round of shots after­wards. Turned out it was a dead crow with feath­ers and all…