Hannah and I met up with Tanya in Kuala Lumpur and scampered up a soggy Malaysia. The highlight was undoubtedly an incident after our boat trip in the northern islands. We hopped back onto dry land to discover a stall selling decorative plates, which we weren't at all interested until we realised that the plates had our faces on!! Those sneaky Malaysians had secretly photographed us and scurried back to print our faces onto fancy china!
Bizarre logic seems to follow with boats as on the choppy ferry over to Thailand, the crew deemed it fit to play 'Titanic' for our entertainment...Otherwise though, the Thai Islands were paradise and we spent our time diving with Reef Sharks, Full Moon partying and munching dragonfruit.
We popped into Burma to renew our visas before heading up to Bangkok. Sensory overload and clinging on to tuk-tuks for dear life makes it an exciting city full of spices, markets and temples. A night train later (that wasn't nearly as much like the Hogwarts Express as you're imagining) and we reached Northern Thailand.
In Chiang Mai we spent a day learning to be Elephant Mahouts - training, bathing and riding our new friends. We hand made Spring Rolls in our Thai Cookery class, and then went on a three day jungle trek, staying with local hill tribes and learning the invaluable skill of bamboo rafting.
Next up was Laos which brought tubing in rubber rings through the mountains, catching a fire festival and witnessing the 5am monk pilgrimage. Every now and again we got the most epic thunderstorms that make you think that somewhere a Disney Villain is very angry.
33 hours on a bus, 1 breakdown, 8 confused men around a tyre, the loading of many many doors & bananas, and we are in wonderful Vietnam! Keeping preserved snakes in their vodka to prove the spirit's strength is just a wisp of their genius. But making us divide everything by 34,000 to figure out how much it costs is not.
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