It has been a while :P
Well from where i left off last time there is a lot of news to catch up on :)
We went to Chaing Mai and had a great time. Lovely city with a few older bits of Thai history thrown in. Also great adventure trekking through parts of the jungle, having fun on an elephant trekk, water rafting and falling down part of a mountain. I was the source of entertainment for the day and have a few extra scars as an ever lasting memory of events :)
We left there and went back to Bangkok for the night and then jumped on the train to Singapore. There was a 23 hour journey and a stop at customs before we successfully made it to Penang in Malaysia which was about half way, for a nights stay to break up the traveling. We found a very cheap hostel and set about exploring, mainly to see if the rumors that we had heard about were true or not with regards to how tasty the food was? We found to our delight that all was correct, the food was amazingly tasty and we took great delight in sampling as much as we could :)
Unfortunately that was where the fun ended for Penang, as that night I had my bag stolen :( My passport, cards money, everything important went. What broke my heart the most was the fact that my camera with ALL the pics of the trip also went :( with no back ups! :( my diary also got taken so i again have no records, and all the lose bits of paper and collected tickets gone :(
A trip to the police station was called for and reports made. Lots of extra hassle that was not a lot of fun. We had to make a dash to Kuala Lumpur to visit the Embassy in order for me to get an emergency passport. After going through every spectrum of the human emotions, i was left flicking between deciding whether to come home, or to continue on.
In the end the decision was pretty much made for me, as my nice and helpful bank told me in no uncertain terms that there was no physical way of me accessing my money or getting a new card send to me :( therefore home it was. I was able to access enough money to get to Singapore and Bali and after that it was a new flight bought and it would be home time.
After spending two days waiting around in KL, I was able to get the passport from the embassy and then we jumped on the first bus down the Singapore. It was AMAZING!!!!! I fell in LOVE and cannot wait to return :) We arrived at about about 8 at night, not having a clue where in the city where in the city we were, and more importantly where we were actually going?? Some very nice people tried to help us, but as we were too busy laughing at the fact we had no idea where to go, it was not a great success. After eventually picking a destination to head towards we managed to get ourselves onto the metro and find a hostel. Extremely basic with only a bed in the room and not even a window!!! but nice and comfortable and just what was needed :) Woke up the next day and walked around as much of the city as possible from morning until night, as thanks to a slightly unexpected weekend activities, the time was cut to a day in the city as the flight to Bali was the next day. Any how it was plenty of time to fall in love with the city and see a lot of the great things that it has to offer :)
Flying to Bali was nice and easy, the airport was a breeze, we where through in 20 minutes and they barely even looked at our passports to see who we where, once we had paid the $25 "airport taxes" to get in. We had a great little hotel booked thanks to Jamie and we made it into our villa at just before 11pm, where we promptly collapsed into bed and slept soundly for the night. The next morning we had a tasty breakfast, before heading onto the white sandy beach with crystal clear blue water enjoying the boiling hot sun for the day, ace :)
I spent a week and a half doing nothing but chilling out, walking round the great markets, seeing the sea every day and getting a tan that definitely got rid of my "white pasty brit" label :)
I landed back in Stansted on Sunday night with the cliche traveling look, tired, tanned, covered in bracelets, hair all over the place, huge rucksack and looking for my free ride home. I without doubt had the most amazing trip through south east Asia and I will most definitely be going again as soon as I get my hands on a new passport as it was magic. It was more than I thought it would be, and I learnt a valuable lesson in life...............ALWAYS travel wearing purple GENIE PANTS! :D xx
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