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Vancouver, Canada

We met Jodi at the airport, and have been enjoying Canada very much.  We've been up to Whistler, and around town a bit with her and Neil, and have even started cheering for the Canucks.

*megs later comments
 seeing that red and white flag was very comforting....
we saw tim hortons and knew we were home.
we had an excellent time with neil and jodie, they put us up in they're pretty little condo and showed us all around. HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY. we watched our fair share and ate alot of yummy panigo pizza. we also visited dan and sarah, it's nice to see familiar faces.
whistler was pretty and we got our one day of winter taken care of, we took a few drives through the beautiful rainy city. canada's a nice place.
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Koh Pha-Ngan, Thailand

A fun ferry ride brings us to Koh Pha-Ngan. We'll relax on the picture-perfect beaches here for a few days. The snorkelling is incredible.

*megs later comments
kev over-emphasised about the snorkelling, its not that great at all...its ok.
it was a nice break though. if you're looking for the moon parties its the place to go. in the check in book at our guest house it is written that you can buy weed and mushrooms from the guest house and it is safe to do them on the premisis.
if you're looking for chilling out on a nice beach and diving, go to koh tao. in retrospect we should have just gone to koph tao, the beaches were nicer, and at the time we wern't looking for diving but if we had been it was the place to go.
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Hat Yai, Thailand

A really nice overnight bus took us north to Hat Yai, where we kept on truckin, up to Surat Thani.
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Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep

A long busride thorugh the mountains brings us to the Beautiful town of Luang Prabang. The scenery would've been alot better, had all the farmers not been praticing slash and burn agriculture right now. The air is full of smoke, We couldn't see the next mountains across the valley all the way up here. Hopefully they'll stop this practice soon, before their fields erode into the Mekong.
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Tanah Rata, Malaysia

We got up to Tanah Rata yesterday, a beautiful town in the Cameron Highlands, surrounded by jungle and tea plantations. We spent the day today touring the area, and hanging out with the locals, eating cassava, shooting blowdarts, and looking at giant spiders.

*megs later comments
the cameron highlands is literally a breath of fresh air. it's elevation makes it almost chilly, the scenery is beautiful and green as far as the eye can see. the food is also very good. we went on a jungle tour, it was really interesting. the tea tour was excellent aswell, and eventualluy we ended up in an Orang Asli villiage learning about their way of life. the 4 foot cheif took us in and entertained us, and we had fun with the blow darts. kevin was the best shot. Malaysia has alot to offer. kev went to another doc, who also seemed to thing nothing was wrong with him....useless.
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Malaka, Malaysia

Change of plans. Instead of spending the night in KL, we stopped about 100 km short, in the town of Malaka. Not much here, but we did see some wierd fish with legs crawling arouond down by the river. strange stuff in Asia.

We're headed up to the Cameron Highlands tomorrow, before continuing north to Thailand.

Cheers

*megs later comments
FOR ALL LONELY PLANET TRAVELERS
if the guide book says that you should "delve into the city's colonial past", "check out the bustling china town and interesting night markets", or "take a walk around and enjoy the city's facinating architecture"...get the hell out of there! its code words for "this city has absolutly nothing to offer but we had to write something nice about it anyway". malaka was one of those towns...masage chairs and flipper fish were the highlights.
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Singapore, Singapore

We arrived, bleary-eyed, to Singapore. We spent the day at the zoo, hanging out with chimps and orangutans, before meeting up with another primate, Kristopher, at the airport in the evening.

Singapore is a really amazing city: clean, green, and built for consumers. Tomorrow we'll take the train to Kuala Lumpur, and work our way north from there.

*megs later comments
it was like a breath of fresh air. people were helpful, they spoke english, everything was well marked and very clean. its an incredebly easy city, the public transit makes so much sense and the meridian had a bath tub....a very clean nice warm bubbly bath tub. ahhhh....
we indulged in the finest foods that little india had to offer. they were hosing the restaurant down from top to bottom when we arrived...atleast it was clean.
although it is an easy clean city it has very little to offer. we went on a "hop on hop off" bus tour, that took us from shopping mall to hotel and back again...shop shop shop. that's all there is. and it's not any cheaper than at home.
the highlights included the dried pigs in the chinese market, and SENTOSA ISLAND! very disney-like a fantasy type wonderland island. fun fun fun for the whole family. from the trippy fountain to the sound and light show, we explored and rememered always that "it's our world".
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Mombasa, Kenya

Took an overnight bus to Mombasa. We managed to sleep a little, thanks to our earplugs.

*megs later comments

we finished our dinner at "carnivores" and enjoyed ostrich one last time before our over land tour bid us farewell, and left us standing alone in the dark crowded, busy streets of scetchy nairobi. the guide book says if you arrive in nairobi at night sleep in the bus station and only venture out in the day. its that scetchy. we were the only white people at the "bus station". our friends looked worried as they pulled away in the mini bus. it was chaos. one little girl boarded the bus with her chicken in hand. they played music all night at full volume, god know's why. we slept with our bags in our laps, wedged tight in between us and the seat infront of us. we didn't move for the entre ride. it was rough. it was the first time we were on our own.
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Namanga, Kenya

Crossing the Tanzanian/Kenyan border, we we swarmed like never before by people trying to sell us all sorts of crap. After the border, we camped for our last night with everyone (so sad).

*megs later comments

Our camp site in arusha was pretty cool. it had a maasai villiage museum where were learned all about the people in plaid blankets...turns out they're not from irish clans after all.
the camp site was also complete with a snake park. we looked at some black mombas and they looked back at us through their glass tank.

kevin and nicki had a wonderful fight as we drank off the last of the kuchie, kuchies that kev and neil bought off the beer transporters we sailed with on our way from zanzibar.
kevin hit nicki's kuchie kuchie (beer) making it fiz. she put her hand over it to stop it, which caused it to spray all over her. then nicki retaliated by shaking salt all over kevin. their childish play scared off all the "not a lions" that we're peacefully lounging around our camp site.
it was the last fight nicki and kevin got in. *sigh*. we miss you nicki
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Arusha, Tanzania

Full day of game driving in the Crater itself, with 400 m walls surrounding it on all sides. We saw so many animalsa, all condensed into a small area: lion, black rhino, buffalo, wildebeast, antelope, flamingoes, wart hogs, and lots of other bird species. We went back to Arusha at the end of the day.
caught another glimps of the bottom of mt. kilimanjoro
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