Category: Travel
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Sunday 7 October 2012 Highlights: Elephant ride, Patting a tiger, Ferry crossing to Koh Samui. Today we headed to the island of Koh Samui located on the East Coast in the Gulf of Thailand. A roughly 3 hour van transfer saw us arrive at Don Sak Pier for our ferry trip. Incredible scenery with mountains,…
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Saturday 6 October 2012 Highlights: Shadow puppets. For once I was the first one into the breakfast room, keen to avoid yesterday’s lateness. Breakfast choices were few but toast and corn flakes will do. We have a 7 hour drive today crossing into Thailand after about 2 hours.
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Friday 5 October 2012. Highlights: Penang Hill, Cocktails with the girls. I overslept a little today which resulted in me getting down to reception as we were due to leave which meant no breakfast today, I guess that will teach me! We had a 4 hour drive to Penang today, the first 2 hours down…
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Thursday 4 October 2012 Highlights: Tea Plantation, Hiking in the forest, Relaxing at the waterfall. Today turned out to be a massive day. The group split into different activities, I went on the forest hiking tour. Kirsty, Yasmin, Lydia, Laurence, Sophie and myself left in our van at 8.45 am. The company picked up 2…
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Wednesday 3 October 2012. Highlights: Petronas Twin Towers, the drive to Cameron Highlands. Four adventurous souls, Kirsty, Laurence, Yasmin and myself left the hotel at 6 am to return to the Twin Towers but this time to climb them (via lifts!) and view the tiny people below.
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Tuesday 2 October 2012. Highlights: National Palace, National Monument, National Mosque, Freedom Square, Batu Caves, Pewter Factory, Silver leafed monkeys and Fireflies Following yesterday’s late night I struggled to get up for what turned out to be a very big day. Most of my companions from last night appeared in good order although Joanna took…
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Monday 1 October 2012. Highlights: Petronas Towers, Chinese Night market, Reggae Bar Leaving Melaka around 8 am with a quick taxi ride to the bus station we got breakfast at the station and off we went to Kuala Lumpur. I had an enjoyable conversation with Sarah about fantasy movies, books and TV shows, a surprise…
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Sunday 30 September 2012. Highlights: Trishaw ride, Taoism Temple. Leaving the hotel at 7.30 am we commenced our journey out of Singapore and onto Malaysia for the next 6 days in a new country. We caught multiple taxis to the bus station with no one getting lost. The bus was on the luxury side which…
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Saturday 29 September 2012. Highlights: Jurong Bird Park, Listening to AFL Grand Final, Meeting new tour group. Today’s schedule should see at visit to Jurong Bird Park, AFL Grand Final (on Internet radio), checking out the shops, moving hotels and finally meeting my G Adventure tour group.
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Friday 28 September 2012. Highlights: Sentosa Island, Singapore Zoo Night Safari No problems waking up today, must be the favourable 2 hour time zone change. The included breakfast was very fulling and set me up for me first tour exploring a new country.
