After 5 years of living in London my wife, Lisa, and I have finally decided to get away from it all and travel. We have resigned from our jobs and have the flat up for rent. This will be our first experience of backpacking but we are both very excited. We intend spending 7 months travelling to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Philippines before heading home to South Africa for close on two months. I stumbled upon the travelblog.org when doing a Google search on Ko Tao and have been hooked ever since. We will be flying from London Heathrow on 15th August and touching down in sticky Bangkok some 13 hours later. We are reasonably prepared without having gone into too much detail with the itinary. Apart from potentially booking our
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