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Citizenship: United KingdomCurrently freelancing doing IT security stuff, but soon heading off round the world for 12-18 months before I lose the opportunity. Can't wait! Maybe I'll bump into you somwhere exotic :)
Hobbies:Mountain Biking, Skiing, Travelling (no prizes for guessing that one!), Website design
Favourite places:Stood on the top of Mt Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo at 5:45 in the morning as the sun rises. The most beautiful thing I have ever experienced.
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Posted by cde3879 | 11th May 2006
Wow, quite a bit of slackness in my blogging over the last few days so apologies for that! We finally made our way off Ko Phi Phi early on tuesday morning. Since we'd only seen the Andaman coast up until then we decided to head for Ko Pha Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand, so we booked a mammoth ferry-bus-bus-ferry trip through an agent on Phi Phi. Absolute bargain at 750 baht each! Trust me - it's a very good deal.
Caught our first ferry at 9am which took us to Krabi on the mainland. That took us past Ko Lanta, which looked very impressive on the horizon - much bigger than PP too. It's apparently wonderful for its beaches but not much else - so no big urges to stop there although it did look nice.
Arrived in Krabi and transferred to a bus which took us to some little hut with a cafe in the middle of nowhere. Imagine something out of The Lone Ranger - tumbleweed across the road, and little more! Just as we were beginning to wonder if we'd ever get there, another (equally shit!) bus tu
Continued | Chris's Thailand & Borneo trip!
23 Apr 2006 - 13 May 2006
Visiting: Thailand, Malaysia and Thailand.
26 Dec 2005 - 02 Jan 2006
Visiting: France.
If anyone wants any help on anything about Phuket / Andaman Islands or similar areas of Thailand, let me know! Went there last year and more than happy to share my experiences.
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Climbed Mount Kinabalu last year so if anyone needs any help on any aspect of the climb or the immediate area, let me know, would be more than happy to share my experiences.
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