Well, we have reached the last day of our trip, which has come around so fast, but we can't believe all of the amazing things that we have seen and done. We've visited 37 different towns in seven different countries, taking in six capital cities and two of the great wonders of the world. We've been transported by planes, trains, buses, bicycles, tubes, taxis, tuk-tuks, song thaws, rickshaws, boats and horses, elephants and bamboo rafts. We've eaten squirrel, rabbit, duck, octopus, maggots and grasshoppers, a range of bizarre looking fruits and a host of dubious meats described as 'pork' or 'chicken' on the menus in China. We've slept in hostels and hotels, floating rafthouses on the river, bamboo huts on the beach, rooms with satellite tv and rooms with cockroaches. We've slept on boats and buses, trains and planes. We've battled with sun burn, bed bugs and mosquito bites, blistered feet, food poisoning and foot infections. Cuts, bruises and wasp stings. Lightning and storms at sea. We've visited chinese temples, Tibetian monestories, mosques, wats, palaces and pragodas, buddhist monuments and statues. We've fed monkeys in the wild, rode on elephants, horses and camels, fed a fawn his bottle of milk, fed deer with bread, stingrays with fish, eagles with meat, and fish with popcorn and banana. we've stroked zebras, giraffes and sea lions, held butterflies, frogs and commorants. We've been tubing, kayaking and white water rafting, been in rowing boats and pedlos, rock slides and rope swings. We've visited a hundered different caves/ zoos/ waterfalls. We've met monks and prostitutes, amputees and orpahned children, homemless people and hill tribe people, travellers from all over the world. Workers as old as seventy and as young as two. We've sampled hundereds of different local beers, drank wine in a dingy at sea, beer chang in a speed boat, beer Laos in a tube on the river, vodka and sprite under the stars on the deck of a boat. We've dealt in eight different currencies and attempted six different languages. We've battled with coakroaches and giant lizards blocking our doorway, children with giant spiders in Cambodia, scorpions on towels in thailand, monitors in the rivers and jelly fish in the sea. We've done cooking classes and massage classes. We've learned how to barter, how to fish with birds, how to eat with chop sticks and how to communicate using only gestures and pointing. ...That's a lot to pack into four months. can't wait for the next trip Claire x