Tag: SouthEastAsia
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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.
