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  Phuket, Thailand
Friday, January 5, 2007

Hello there! Yes, we know, it's been ages! But internet has been harder to access lately, and expensive. We're now in Kuala Lumpur, where I was born. Last time I was here, bed bugs... this time? So far so good.

Wow, so the last time we wrote, was about Cambodia... well, since then, we stayed a few days in Bangkok and then continued up to Pai.

We ended up spending just under a month in Pai, teaching in Nam Hoo village. The principal was delighted to see me again, although he was expecting me back quite a few months earlier. This time though, there were two of us teaching each class and it was much easier. Although... Luke and I set a test at the end of our teaching period, and er... 6 children out of 70 (3 classes) passed, and the rest failed, most quite miserably

01 Goat on Christmas Eve

. Reflection on their teachers perhaps??? We were quite dissapointed at first, but then came to realise that hopefully we made a difference to at least two of the students, who did do really well... you've got to be happy with that.

As many of you know, Aaron, Luke's friend flew over from Oz and met up with us in Pai. It was fantastic to see him, and with him, was a massive leg of ham, and a huge hunk of steak... mmmm... oh, and of course some Autralian red wine... He sure knew what we'd missed. It was a good Christmas! Pai was really cold actually, some nights dropped to as low as 6 degrees! Daytime temperatures were mild, between 20 - 25. We relaxed pretty much the whole time in Pai, did a little sight seeing, but the most fun was when the three of us hired a scooter each and rode to Mae Hong Son one day. Riding through the mountains was fantastic, there were a few scary corners, but it was cool!

New Years was spent in Chiang Mai, it was a little scary on the eve when we heard of the bombings in Bangkok, and the celebrations in Chiang Mai were therefore cancelled too. Still, we did join what seemed like all of Thailand in the traditional lighting of giant lanterns and watched them float off into the sky with our wishes for the new year.

We spent New Year's Day on a bus to Bangkok... and were surprised to find that Aaron had booked us all into a luxury Hotel called the Conrad!!! Eekkk!!! It was wonderful! The bed, the bath tub!!! The service! Oh.... it was just incredible and we felt spoilt. We pretty much spent the day in their luxurious bath robes and slippers!

02 Our last night steak feast

Aaron left us on the 5th :(  and we were joined by our favourite travel buddies, Adi and Yuval... it was so good to see these two again as they were about to leave to go back home. The four of us headed down south to Krabi and headed for Tonsai Beach, we'd all been itching for some island hopping. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't that great and we only spent three days there. Luke and I left then, and headed further south to Ko Lipe in hope that the weather was going to be better... It was.... sorry Adi and Yuval, it was glorious.

7 days on this amazing island, it is starting to get overun by tourists, but no way as much as places like Ko Phi Phi or Ko Samui... some of it was still fairly rustic, with bamboo bungalows right on the beach. We spent most of our days in the sun, swimming, reading... and did a day of diving too.... visibilty wasn't amazing, but there were lots of Nemo's relatives to say g'day to which was cool. It was awesome to feel like darth vader under water again. Loved it!

We jumped on a train from the mainland and left Thailand ... for Malaysia. We're catching up with some of my family, most of whom I haven't seen in years... should be nice. We leave for a town down south called Malacca where we'll stay for a few days before heading to Singapore for my friends Venetia and Carl's wedding.

So enjoy the photos... hope everyone is well, happy belated Christmas and New Year! Love from Wye and Luke xx

 
 

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03 Us and Eak	04 Wye and Kerin	05 Us with Park and Noom	06 Pai sunset at Bannamhoo
06a Mae hon son on scooters	07 Aaron stops for coffee	08 New Years Eve lantern	09 Other lanterns
10 The Conrad's Executive Suite	11 Us in the Conrad robes and slippers	12 The pool	13 Aaron poolside
14 Cloudy days in Tonsai Beach	16 Cloudbathing	17 Longtails	18 A treehouse style bungalow
19 The four of us	20 Sunrise beach on Ko Lipe	21 Luke's view	21 Our Bungalow on Lipe
22 Wye rolls into the water	23 Wye and Luke on the diving boat	24 Luke and Mu Yong	26 Sunrise the morning we left

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