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Well i've been in Thailand and Malaysia for 3 weeks now, my girlfriend Leila has been with me the whole time too which is always good!
We spent the first 3 nights in Bangkok and did a boat cruise down the river, we thought we had agreed to go on some official boat tour but turned out to be some dodgy bloke and his boat but turned out being better for us as we got our own personal long boat and it was alot more authentic thailand than the tourist boats they were using! Ourt boat also barged into a little canoe boat with a guy selling stuff and we knocked him into the water.....we had to laugh!!
We visited a few temples and went to see the famous Golden Bhudda and the reclining bhudda. The markets in bangkok were good but unfortunatly we weren't there for the big weekend markets.
Next up we went to Phuket, we weren't really too impressed really but Leila got sun burn so i laughed!
Krabi was much better than Phuket, and we went to the Phi Phi Islands which is where they filmed 'the Beach'. We had a good day doing this trip doing snorkelling and island hopping. the actual beach from the film was packed with tourists though so kind of ruined it but it was still pretty amazing and got a few good pics.
We also went to watch some Thai Boxing in Krabi, it was well funny! we saw 7 fights, the first one was probably the best though cos it was two 10 year olds beating the crap out of each other and it just looked so wrong! the rest of the fights were good aswell though!
After Ao Nang in Krabi we went to an island in Malaysia called Langkawi, we loved it here, planned to stay for 3 days but stayed for 5 in the end as it was so really nice, the beach was pristine white and the sunsets beautiful. We stayed on the beach in a little apartment hut which was perfect. We did another island hopping trip around Langkawi's 99 islands (we went to 3), and saw some wild monkeys, 1 of them tried stealing Leila's camera! and some eagles fishing in the water. Also went to the top of the cable car to get a panoramic view of the islands.
Off to Kuala Lumpur next, the city is just like most other cities really, busy and over crowded, not really my kind of place although the market was good but got hassled all the time to buy things. On one of the nights we got woken up about 4am with someone trying to break into our room, he was banging on the door and making strange noises like some kind of axe murderer and trying to get the lock open...... i think the 7ft monster got scared of my chest rug though and he went away eventually!
We tried to get to Koh Samui but the flights didn't work out so had to fly back to Phuket (not ideal!) and stayed at Patong beach.... they double booked our room so they sent us to some other hotel and took us on a pretty scary vehicle..... it's a moped with a piece of wood attached to the side that we had to sit on with our bags!! The beach was nice but way too overpacked with deckchairs and people, it could have been in spain!
Went to James Bond island (you may recognise the rock in the pics from 'The Man with the golden gun' film and visited a temple and got attacked by more rabied monkeys!
In Koh Phan Ngan at the moment and going to the full moon party tonight which should be good!
I'm trying to update my pictures but it's not working very well so be patient as only the first 25 or so may be up for a few days until i can do all of them....
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