cos its so damned hot here. love it.
rich and i flew up to siem reap to see angkor for 2 days. Our flights were $100 vs $3.5o for the bus, but as we are very time poor it was well worth it.
managed to see more temples but in far less detail than i did last year, as we had to speed tour to get it all in for rich and get to the outlying temples for a new experience for me. so whilst sweating approximately 1 litre every 45 mins we soldiered through, awestruck. Ranging from 900-1200ad, the variance in the temples is amazing, each with different architecture and engineering, and tales of war, of gods and of kings.
back in pp now. retuned to a middle eastern theme a home last night on rach's deck. smoking a huge sheesha pipe, mint, melon, cinnamon and apple tobaccos were sampled , burning frankincense and watching huge bats fly past. ahhhh. to add to my agony i started today with a full on shiatzu massage. man he knew what he was doing. my shoulders are apparently like rocks...oh oh. posture classes when i get home.
cant beleive its our last day here. i feel so at home, i cant bear the idea of our 5 flights to get home to the cold and probably a destroyed garden from the hail!
got some bugs for dessert tonight, grubs cricket cockroaches and all. wooop.
see ya'l soon x
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
We heart Cambodge
back again and oving it.
as always we are hosted by the lovely Rach, this time in her Phnom Penh palace, with our own room with an ensuite! spoilt! Its a lovely airy naked wood home with a large deck dripping with orchids aching of the humid romance of the east. we were greeted by geckos in the house on our arrival and the sounds of the neighbourhood kids playing in the street. Needless to say we are loving her new surrounds.
in typical expat fashion we have tiki toured round town in tuk tuks, dining on khmer food(including tarantulas!) and all sorts other international food, from french o Italian and Lebanese. Eating like royalty to.
we have shopped, visited some sites, some have worked, while others have swum at pool bars and taken afternoon massages. And did i mention eaten like sultans!? it's been Divine.
great times catching up with rach. pleased to say she's well after a bout of fever, running rings around me as i type decorating her house middle eastern/kiwiana style, and is fully assimilated into life here - and tempting us into it as well. its a far off possibility but not this time for us.
anyway, must be off to pack for angkor wat tomorrow. xx
as always we are hosted by the lovely Rach, this time in her Phnom Penh palace, with our own room with an ensuite! spoilt! Its a lovely airy naked wood home with a large deck dripping with orchids aching of the humid romance of the east. we were greeted by geckos in the house on our arrival and the sounds of the neighbourhood kids playing in the street. Needless to say we are loving her new surrounds.
in typical expat fashion we have tiki toured round town in tuk tuks, dining on khmer food(including tarantulas!) and all sorts other international food, from french o Italian and Lebanese. Eating like royalty to.
we have shopped, visited some sites, some have worked, while others have swum at pool bars and taken afternoon massages. And did i mention eaten like sultans!? it's been Divine.
great times catching up with rach. pleased to say she's well after a bout of fever, running rings around me as i type decorating her house middle eastern/kiwiana style, and is fully assimilated into life here - and tempting us into it as well. its a far off possibility but not this time for us.
anyway, must be off to pack for angkor wat tomorrow. xx
Thursday, October 8, 2009
feeling hot hot hot
yes, it is very hot and muggy here. i hear its hailing in welly?! wow - we picked a good time to go!
the sun burn continues too. i now have passed the white hand of sauron stage and now have psuedo arm bands of white. terrible.
had a beautiful snorkle around some coral filled inlets in phi phi ley yesterday. saw lots of little fish, and large parrot fish. brain coral are huge and sorta funny. like lots of submerged brains muttering on the bottom of the ocean. we also went to monkey bay and saw charasmatic local monkeys with baboon like faces with white coloured eyelids. little baby ones and old wise looking fellas.
any who, gotta go eat some seafood and visit ZARA! xx
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
the journey continues
here we are, back in Thailand! my third time in Phuket, and Phi Phi right now.
Its hot, lush, green, muggy and beautiful.
We have swum, shopped, fended off mosquitoes, hoovered pad thai and fruit shakes to our hearts contempt. We'll, when is it ever enough, its only been three days! Could do longer in Thailand easily but somewhere else next time I think is on the cards.
What a mission getting here though. WLG - AKL (8 hour stop over, boozing with Kendra and other welly relics, and a surprise pop up (literally from behind a pillar) from Marina on K rd!!), then flying to Brunei (11 hours), 2.5 hour stopover, then to BKK for another 2.5 hour stopover , then to Phuket. 30 or so hours later its still the 3 of October. Exhausted.
We followed this with a day of debauchery. I gave up before 12am, and found the boys at 9am (!!) the next morning wandering the beach, wet, covered in sand, ears and all, a little incoherent and drunk describing a night of buckets of red bull and whiskey, a popular tourist drink in Thailand, aren't we sophisticated, and many, many night swims....classic
so i put them to sleep and spent the day bathing and swimming as they slept it off!
Classic thai times. I have cuddled a lot of cute little kittens but fear not, it seems they have cleaned up around here. they're not the mangeythings they used to be, most have collars and look pretty healthy. so i cant resist. i may have recieved a few flea bits through...opps.
I have the most ridiculous tan marks too. described as a white tee shirt with the white hand of sauron across myt chest i have achieved a truly shameful, 'english tourist' type lobster burn. hopefully i can even it out once before i get home...
feels like we've been here a lot longer than we have, but thats always the way with travels.
Back to Phuket tommorow, to see a lady about some monkeys and a shop about zara. xxx
Its hot, lush, green, muggy and beautiful.
We have swum, shopped, fended off mosquitoes, hoovered pad thai and fruit shakes to our hearts contempt. We'll, when is it ever enough, its only been three days! Could do longer in Thailand easily but somewhere else next time I think is on the cards.
What a mission getting here though. WLG - AKL (8 hour stop over, boozing with Kendra and other welly relics, and a surprise pop up (literally from behind a pillar) from Marina on K rd!!), then flying to Brunei (11 hours), 2.5 hour stopover, then to BKK for another 2.5 hour stopover , then to Phuket. 30 or so hours later its still the 3 of October. Exhausted.
We followed this with a day of debauchery. I gave up before 12am, and found the boys at 9am (!!) the next morning wandering the beach, wet, covered in sand, ears and all, a little incoherent and drunk describing a night of buckets of red bull and whiskey, a popular tourist drink in Thailand, aren't we sophisticated, and many, many night swims....classic
so i put them to sleep and spent the day bathing and swimming as they slept it off!
Classic thai times. I have cuddled a lot of cute little kittens but fear not, it seems they have cleaned up around here. they're not the mangeythings they used to be, most have collars and look pretty healthy. so i cant resist. i may have recieved a few flea bits through...opps.
I have the most ridiculous tan marks too. described as a white tee shirt with the white hand of sauron across myt chest i have achieved a truly shameful, 'english tourist' type lobster burn. hopefully i can even it out once before i get home...
feels like we've been here a lot longer than we have, but thats always the way with travels.
Back to Phuket tommorow, to see a lady about some monkeys and a shop about zara. xxx
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