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Published: March 5th 2007
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'The Beach'
This was the beach that featured on the film of the same name once again its been a while, think im gettin very lazy at this malarky!!
last time i wrote i was about to go diving the next day!! well it all went fine (obv) and i cant wait to do it again!! we all really loved the experience, its so surreal!!! we want to do our advanced course next!! woohoo!! at the moment we are only qualified to go to 18m, but thats fine for now!
We all really enjoyed Koh Tao and wouild definately return!!
Our next stop was Phuket, to meet the parents who were stayin in an amazin 5 * marriott hotel!!! we lived a life of luxury for 2 nights with meals bought for us etc etc etc!! then we were off again! we went to Koh Phi Phi via Phuket town for 1 night (which isnt very nice).
Phi Phi was very badly hit by he tsunami so there is a lot of building work goin on there now! i think it has been made too commercialised now. apparently it used to be gorgeous but it wasnt as nice as koh tao in our opinion! it was rather smelly with the sewage river running
Koh Tao
Another beautiful sunset through the town! never-the-less we still managed to have an amazing time there!! we met so many new people that we have stayed in touch with! we also met people we had met before in Koh Samui!! we find that we bump into the same people everywhere!!!!
we didnt do too much in Phi Phi as the night life was pretty good and we were only there for 4 nights!! however we managed to drag ourselves out of bed one morning at 7.30 to go on a snorkling trip because the rest of the island and the neighbouring islands have gorgeous beaches, like the ones on the postcards! we visited the beach that was used on the film 'The Beach'!! it was a lot busier than it is on the film but still just as beautiful! unfortunately, leonardo de caprio wasnt there to meet and greet us! it was a fun but tiring day and im very glad we managed to do it!!
on the main beach in Phi Phi, ellie noticed this very strange guy looking very nervous and suspicious! then we realised he was taking photos of topless girls comin out of the water but he
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The pool bar one of the many pools in The Marriott! was trying to do it subtly! no1 did notice apart from us but he was really freakin us out!! then he followed these 2 girls back to their bungalow so ellie and amy followed him and tried to warn the girls! i think it deterred him coz he was hiding behind a wall for ages tryin to get a look!! he was strange but there was nothing we could do really!! just made us more aware on the nights out!
Our next stop was Krabi as we were flying out of there! theres not much to say about here because it was pretty boring and amy had an eye infection and i had an ear infection so we had to slow down a bit!!
we flew out of Thailand and into singapore! singapore is the cleanest place in the world!!! such a shocking difference to thailand!! the shoppin is ridiculous!! there are malls everywhere!!
we met a guy in our hostel who we spent most of our time with. we went to a place called sentosa which we think was a manmade island! but it had loads of american sort of things to do on it lke 3d cinema and luge riding etc etc! this was quite expensive but good fun!!
the guy who ran our hostel had a severe case of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). i knocked a book off the shelf by mistake and he thought the world had ended shouting 'oh my god oh my god'!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he then put every book back one by one and made sure all the leaflets were perfectly simmetrical!! he disinfected our room twice a day and hoovered at least 4 times a day!!
anyway, all-in-all we loved singapore and would def return ........maybe with a bit more money next time tho!!!
now we are in bali, only been here 2 nights and we havent been blown away by it yet (pardon the really cheap pun) . the beach is pretty dirty and the people hound you for business which isnt like thailand!! we have our first air conditioned room tho which is a bonus!! its quite cloudy here coz its the rainy season i think but we will still try and improve the old tan!!
next time i write will prob be in Oz coz the internet here is rubbish and this keyboard keeps on sticking and really annoying me so im gonna go and sit by the pool now!!!!
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