Monday, June 25, 2007

Quick stop in Hong Kong and onto Thailand

Hello everyone. The 14 1/2 hour flight was tiring after the first five hours. When we got off the plane it was nighttime but it was way too hot. Like 95 degrees of something. After getting of the plane we caught a train, then a bus, then walked to our hotel. Then we unloaded our stuff and caught a ferry boat and then another bus, and then walked to the tram to the Peak in Hong Kong where you could see the whole city. We then walked back to the boat adn went to the other side of the island back to hotel and crashed out. The next day we cruised around on a double-decker bus in search of the annual Dragon Boat Race Festival.

We jumped back on the plane and 5 hours later landed in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is a cool city with lots of motorscooters and tuk-tuks(1,000's of them at every intersection). After hanging for 3 days in Bangkok exlporing all the temples, the 100 foot standing Buddha, the Emerald Buddha, and the solid gold 14 foot Buddha, and the Grand Palace. The Thail people must really like this Buddha character. Then we took a bus to Hui Hin, right on the beach. We snuck into the Hilton Hotel's pool, that even had a waterslide. We missed our bus so we ended up staying at the Hilton. It was awesome and I got to swim all day long and play pool and ping-pong. We are now in Krabi after a 10 hour overnight bus ride. Today we jumped in the Inidan Ocean and rented a motorbike and got caught in a monsoon rain storm. I'm having a great time, I'll talk to you guys later.

All my belongings

All my belongings
Ready for departure

We're ready

We're ready
All in the family

My stuff

My stuff
Room for more in my backpack