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"It's the culture Daryl, the place is full of culture." "Chokkas Dad." (The Castle, 1997)
From the poo poo of India to the Phi Phi of Thailand we visited what has been a playground to westerners for many years for a bit of fun in both the sun and the bottom of a bottle (or a bucket in this case). The people are incredibly friendly and more than willing to show you their culture. Even at the airport there is a showcase of Thai culture and we saw a woman playing a traditional stringed instrument. Next week's showcase is a woman doing the traditional ping pong ball trick.
We met up with an old friend of Andrea's from the UK, Candice. What was originally planned to be a catch up for dinner quickly turned into a night of drinking booze out of a bucket and also involved a large amount of body paint. The next day we managed to explore the northern part of the island, albeit with a headache, as far as 1 hour on a kayak would take us so not very far at all thanks to our custard arms. Walking through the street stalls, we partook in some foot cleansing courtesy of a fish tank and thousands of obliging fish who happily devoured the dead skin off our feet! They had a field day with Nathaniel and ironically for them, getting dead skin off his feet was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Time again was over all too quickly as evidenced by us missing the ferry back to Phuket! Another crisis meeting took place and we reached the decision to hire a leaky long boat (even the prawns were wearing life jackets) for a 2 hour voyage back to Phuket. Very happy to report that we are not currently floating somewhere in the Malacca Strait!
We say goodbye to Thailand who has been a very gracious host. Not long to go but the boogie board bag felt a bit heavy checking in for our Singapore flight, strange.
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Deborah ....I am sure Shapelle would be happy to show you around the place...wait a minute..wrong place... better leave your chewing gum on the bedpost though if you are going to Singapore... love the blogs..xxx