Sunday

Today we got Ferry passes and visited some of the islands surrounding Hong Kong... First we went to Cheung Chow island. It would have been very nice I think and we saw a little temple. However there were very strong winds and possibly the heaviest rain i've been in!

The rain eased off and we popped over to Lantau Island to see the massive buddha! He was sittin there very nicely when we arrievd, but by the time we'd walked up the massive hill to him, he was covered with mist and we could barely see him when we were right next to him...

Amy was very excited by some cheese she saw, so we got that and at it with some crackers during the bus back to the ferry! Think that was it for Sunday!

Monday

We had some major flight difficulties - amy left her ticket at the hostel and our flight was cancelled... We managed to get her ticket sent to us by a taxi, and caught a slightly later flight and just managing to get our second connecting flight! Thus we won!

After arriving at about 8ish, Pete went to chillax and use the internet, and Amy n I went to a cool bar with a live band playing songs in English (Like Maroon 5 stuff and YMCA, and we had a few tequila shots!

Tuesday

I was Ill during the day :(

Went to a reggae bar and had a nice meal in the evening... Reggae bar was actually playing lots of DnB as well, and had all sorts of flourescent stuff going on. Reminded me of some of the nicer places in Amsterdam.

Wednesday

During the day, we bought a package of activities - An ox cart ride, elephant ride, jungle trek (saw a massive waterfall and a hillside village - tiny TINY place!) and had a bamboo raft ride, during which it rained continuously and very hard, so we got soaked! Still very fun...

In the evening Pete n Amy went off to get a Thai massage, and I sat around watching a very good cover band... Watching the bassist kinda made me jealous though, but he WAS very good, so that was ok... He kept switching through styles of playing randomly here n there and for no apparent reason, though it still sounded fine. Just a very strange way of doing things IMO!

After this we checked out Thai boxing, which was gd fun! Two people kicking each other is always a laugh... The age range for the competitors was very young, and we thought a couple of them must have been about 12 or 14, though most were older. They were all super-muscly though, inc. the kids which was kinda freaky to see...

Thursday

Night train to Bangkok. Pete n Amy did a cooking course but I really wasnt feeling up for that! Met them at the train station and we hopped on our sleeper train! Rather comfy, all things considerd, and I slept a lot better than the previous few nights due to handy air-con!

Friday

Petes flight was at 8ish (we arrived at about 7) and he thought it'd be a great idea for us to all get a taxi to the airport to make it cheaper... Which we did. However OUR flight (me n amy) was at about 3pm, and since it was quite a lot more to get back into town than it was to get to the airport, we waited there for about 6 hours before our flight to Cambodia.  Damn Pete!!

The flight itself was pretty fun since our plane was tiny and had propellers! :-D  In the evening we just chilled in the hostel (which was very nice) and played cards.