24 days until we leave
Counting the days left actually gave me butterflies.
Last night I finished booking all of the internal flights around malaysia. So far the itinerary looks like this:
12 June - fly Auckland to Bangkok - arriving at 1am! not sure what we're going to do then, probably should book a hotel or something for the night and then go from there...
13 June - Muck around in Bangkok then take the night train to Chiang Mai
We're going to do the elephant thing and some rafting and stuff in Chiang Mai, then at some stage head back down to Bangkok via this cool national park where there are tigers. Unfortunately no ligers. Then do the beaches and stuff, no real plans, but want to spend some time maybe on Koh Samui or something, and go to Krabi. Of course we'll be seeing my friend that lives in Thailand, perhaps in Bangkok when we come back from Chiang Mai, then she can show us all the cool places to go and shop and stuff...
then, the next firm plans are:
2 July - fly Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia and then Kuala Lumpur to Tawau in Sabah, we're spending a night in a hotel up there
3 July - we're picked up by the Pulau Sipadan resort people and head to Kapalai
Sipadan-Kapalai Dive Resort
3 - 9 July we're spending there, and will be doing 3 dives or more every day going out to Sipadan island for two of the dives and diving around the resort for the others... There are so many amazing things to see, I am super excited. There are turties!!! I can't wait to see turties...
9 July - fly Tawau to Sandakan and get picked up by the next resorty thing
Sepilok Nature Resort
9 - 12 July we're spending there and doing various jungle trek thingees and seeing Orangutans (as a bit of trivia, in indonesian, and probably malaysian as they're similar, orang means person and utan means forest - cute) and other cool things. (dream holiday anyone?!)
12 July - fly Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur and then at one am the next morning leave KL en route to London.
Booking flights from places that I don't know where they are, to others that I didn't even know existed on airlines that hopefully aren't dodgy, but will probably have tiny planes, was somewhat of a mildly odd experience. The resort recommended flight numbers and stuff, and I was thinking to myself that it would be funny (in many many years) if they were just fucking with us and none of these places existed, or they were running some racket and were going to use us as mules or something and we'd end up in a malaysian prison and be hung. Ok, so far fetched I know, but these things run through your mind when you have no idea what you're doing!
Anyways, still some planning for Thailand to go. Hoping to spend my birthday in Pattaya or nearby so I can see my friend on my birthday and have dinner or something with her and boyo. Then I won't feel quite so lonely and cut off from my friends and family.
still with the butterflies!
Last night I finished booking all of the internal flights around malaysia. So far the itinerary looks like this:
12 June - fly Auckland to Bangkok - arriving at 1am! not sure what we're going to do then, probably should book a hotel or something for the night and then go from there...
13 June - Muck around in Bangkok then take the night train to Chiang Mai
We're going to do the elephant thing and some rafting and stuff in Chiang Mai, then at some stage head back down to Bangkok via this cool national park where there are tigers. Unfortunately no ligers. Then do the beaches and stuff, no real plans, but want to spend some time maybe on Koh Samui or something, and go to Krabi. Of course we'll be seeing my friend that lives in Thailand, perhaps in Bangkok when we come back from Chiang Mai, then she can show us all the cool places to go and shop and stuff...
then, the next firm plans are:
2 July - fly Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia and then Kuala Lumpur to Tawau in Sabah, we're spending a night in a hotel up there
3 July - we're picked up by the Pulau Sipadan resort people and head to Kapalai
Sipadan-Kapalai Dive Resort
3 - 9 July we're spending there, and will be doing 3 dives or more every day going out to Sipadan island for two of the dives and diving around the resort for the others... There are so many amazing things to see, I am super excited. There are turties!!! I can't wait to see turties...
9 July - fly Tawau to Sandakan and get picked up by the next resorty thing
Sepilok Nature Resort
9 - 12 July we're spending there and doing various jungle trek thingees and seeing Orangutans (as a bit of trivia, in indonesian, and probably malaysian as they're similar, orang means person and utan means forest - cute) and other cool things. (dream holiday anyone?!)
12 July - fly Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur and then at one am the next morning leave KL en route to London.
Booking flights from places that I don't know where they are, to others that I didn't even know existed on airlines that hopefully aren't dodgy, but will probably have tiny planes, was somewhat of a mildly odd experience. The resort recommended flight numbers and stuff, and I was thinking to myself that it would be funny (in many many years) if they were just fucking with us and none of these places existed, or they were running some racket and were going to use us as mules or something and we'd end up in a malaysian prison and be hung. Ok, so far fetched I know, but these things run through your mind when you have no idea what you're doing!
Anyways, still some planning for Thailand to go. Hoping to spend my birthday in Pattaya or nearby so I can see my friend on my birthday and have dinner or something with her and boyo. Then I won't feel quite so lonely and cut off from my friends and family.
still with the butterflies!
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