Bonjour!
Since we last met several important events have occurred. Firstly; our voyage to Chiang Rai where we slept soundly in our very first 'homestay' minglin' about with the locals and generally sticking out. Secondly; we bought a new bag. Thirdly; Ashley got to play around with some trad. Thai instruments (he now wants one of each.... Santa?). Fourthly (is that a word?); We set off on a 3 day trek, a mere 25km journey which we approached bustling with confidence and mocking the seemingly insignificant distance...
Well....
The trek was fantastic, it was spread across three days and we were lucky enough to visit three remote hillside villages and stay in varying degrees of accomodation (from; a bit chilly and uncomfortable to; a bit more chilly and less comfortable). The hiking itself required us to lug our, thinned down, 10kg bags (again.... HA! no worries) through jungle, woodland, up and over a number of big 'ills past some luscious scenery (including coffee plantations, kay 'the eternal barista' was in her element). Turns out that 25km of hills is tough going for two unfit city dwellers... however we made it and seem a little more prepared for the trekking potential of the big NZ.
We're still awaiting a suitable place to upload some images on the cheap to show that we aren't actually just sitting in an internet cafe in Blackpool....
We've got to go and pack up now, we're back in Bangkok after another delightfully cockroach ridden nighttrain and we're heading for Singapore in the early hours...
If anyone knows of any 'must-sees' in Singapore then please give us a shout as there is too much to do in too little time.... Christmas soon eh!
We'll write again before then,
loads of love
x x x
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