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Due to the fact that we've lived too far apart for the past 2 years. We've decided to jack it all in and spend some quality time together. And what better way to do it? 6 months round the world... Some people have asked us where we'll be at certain times. For Xmas we'll be in Lima, Peru. We'll give you the address if anyone wants to send us a xmas card!! New year, Auckland New Zealand. Australia from Feb 1st - April 1st and Thailand from about mid April - May 25th.

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By Disco and Rat
May 17th 2006

Back to Bangers!

Asia » Thailand » Central » Bangkok

Day 186 -193 We arrived early in the morning and tuk tuk'd it to siam square, we wandered up and down one street checking out a number of fairly poor rooms before settling on the least offensive place which seemed stuck somewhere in the 70's. We spent the next 3 days avoiding the rain by shopping in the huge siam malls, ordering a taylor made suit and shirts for Stuart along along the way. We were trying to book a final beach relax before our return but couldn't find anywhere in Thailand that wasn't raining. So we sacked it off and [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
May 13th 2006

Elephants in the clouds

Asia » Thailand » North » Chiang Mai

Us on our elephant

Days 182-185 Arrived in Chiang Mai about 5 am and found our way to a nice little guesthouse via Tuk tuk. We had a little snooze then checked out the city. It was a gorgeous hot day (if we'd known it would be our last we would have made the most of it) and a really cool city. Much more chilled than Bangkok. We had some breakfast and booked an unplanned 2 day trekking trip for the next day. Had a swim in the pool at the guesthouse then walked down to the night market. It was huge - neverending in [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
May 8th 2006

Back on the move.

Asia » Thailand » Central » Bangkok

Grand Palace

Days 177 - 181 We left Ao Nang and headed to Krabi town for the day. After seeing some horror guesthouses, we eventually found somewhere to stay. Had a look round town, booked our bus for tomorrow and took a look at the night market. The next morning we jumped onto a bus headed to Ranong. It took 2 hours longer than expected as it stopped EVERYWHERE! We got dropped in the middle of a motorway and had no idea where we were. Luckily another guy had a map so we followed him and eventually found the town centre. Had some [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
May 4th 2006

Krabi

Asia » Thailand » South » Ao Nang

The girls devouring some cocktails.

Days 173-176 We got a boat over to Krabi and jumped on a bus to Ao Nang, a beach resort. We had no idea where we were when we got off the bus so went to an internet cafe to find somewhere to stay near where the girls would be staying. Luckily we were right by their hotel and checked into the one next to it. Ao Nang is very touristy but it was nice to be somewhere with a buzz after being on quiet beaches for the last month. We had a look around town, had some lunch and Stuart [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
April 30th 2006

Rags and Riches

Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Phi Phi

Out on the tiles

Days 168-172 We had breakfast then caught the boat across to Koh Phi Phi. We said goodbye to the girls for a few days as they caught a boat to their flash hotel at the top of the island. We got a taxi boat to a ramshakle little beach and checked into our little beach hut. The beach was really small but so gorgeous and the sea was emerald green and crystal clear. We jumped into the sea for a swim, had lunch then chilled on the beach and in our hammock. Our hut was right on the beach so the [View Full Entry]

Rach, Carly & Abi waiting for the boat that never came...

By Disco and Rat
April 25th 2006

Poo-ket

Asia » Thailand » South » Phuket

Nai Harn Beach

Days 163-167 We left Bottle Beach and caught the boat back to the mainland. We waited around for our bus across to Phuket as the big luxurious buses turned up to take passengers all around Thailand. Then this rickerty old thing turned up and we joked it was ours. Next they were shouting for passengers travelling for Phuket and signalling us to get into it. It's ok, we thought, it's just a van to take us to our real bus. After a while we stopped and all started to get out expecting to board the nice big bus, but no, more [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
April 14th 2006

Bottle Beach

Asia » Thailand » South » Ko Pha Ngan

Beautiful, Beautiful Bottle Beach
The photos don't do it justice at all! You HAVE to go there.

Days 152 - 162 We caught the first boat back to the mainland and got a taxi up to the Thai border. Once in Thailand, we walked 1km in the blistering heat with our backpacks to the train station - grim is not the word! We then got a 10 hour train up to Surat Thani. When we got off the train we got a taxi to a hotel and spent the night in a nice hotel room with air con!! Next morning we caught the first ferry across to Ko Pha Ngan which took about 4 hours. We then got [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
April 6th 2006

Paradiso

Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Perhentian Besar

Coral Bay

Days 144 - 151 After a long bus journey followed by an early morning boat, we landed on a gorgeous white beach with clear blue sea lapping up onto the shore. We were at Coral Bay in the Perhentian Islands. We walked along the beach looking for somewhere to stay and checked into a bargainous beach hut a stones throw away from the beach. We got ourselves sorted and planted ourselves on the beach under the clear blue sky. The sea was so still and clear, it was literally like a luke warm bath, with lots of little fish swimming around [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
April 3rd 2006

Umper Lumper Land

Asia » Malaysia » Selangor » Kuala Lumpur

Old and new

Days 141-143 We left Singapore midday and caught the bus up to Malaysia. We met a couple of girls on the bus who live about 2 miles from Carly and knew some of the same people. How random!! We got to Kuala Lumpur about 7 hours later and found our way to our hotel. Yes, hotel, not hostel!! Woo hoo! We are staying in China Town, right slap bang in the middle of a huge street market where you get harrassed to buy t-shirts, Mr Bean Teddies and watches every step you take. They seemed to like us as they called [View Full Entry]

By Disco and Rat
April 1st 2006

Singapore Sling

Asia » Singapore » Little India

Little India
In the evening the streets were jam packed with men sitting around chatting. It was really odd.

Day 139-140 We flew out of Darwin late afternoon and arrived at our next stop, Singapore in the early evening. We caught the train to Little India, where we were staying. We checked into our hostel, which was really nice, but were pretty shattered so had some pringles and went to sleep. To make up for our lameness yesterday we got up early and walked to the main shopping street - Orchard Street. It was basically a row of malls although each one seemed to have the same shops. They have every shop you could ever want from Gucci, Prada, Armani [View Full Entry]

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