I forgot to mention, yesterday at the campsite was a giant bouncy pillow... Amazing fun!! It was basically an adults bouncy castle, it had us amused for a good hour! It was so tiring though, and we discovered repeatedly that I can no longer do a front flip :-( today I am so so sore!!! We left early this morning and headed back to hot water beach but unfortunately the tide was still quite high. After picking up some groceries we went to the gold mines and walked...

I have arrived in New Zealand :-D The 3rd stage of my Trip Yesterday I took a local bus and ventured out of Auckland to walk and around One Tree Hill, which is the summit and crater of two volcanoes that erupted many years ago. The place has a very strong Maori history. Unfortunately there is currently no tree on the hill at the moment as it was cut down in 2006 as it was deemed unsafe but they do plan to plant another soon. There was lots of sheep and baby la...

What a fantastic week, a nice holiday and break from the travelling lifestyle, with the great company of Miss Murray :-D We stayed in a nice apartment with great sea views in Kota Kinabalu. Unfortunately, Jays suitcase didn't make it to Borneo with her so the first day we spent wandering around the city, shopping for an outfit for her to wear the next day! The next day we went on a river cruise, we had a nice dinner and spent the afternoon spotting crocodiles, ...

Road Trip Weekend In KL I was staying with a local girl called Lim, who I met after she kindly looked after me when I was poorly in Chiang Mai. It was great to see the city from a locals eyes. At the weekend we went to Malaka, a city on the coast south of KL. It had become quite touristy with the gimmicky stalls but it was still kept in its old town style which was nice to see, and there was lots of different types of Malaysian foods in the street market. We tr...

Today I flew to Malalysia! Thank god I didn't have to get another gruelling bus! I arrived in the town and had to wait two hours for a girl I had met in Chiang Mai to come and pick me up... As I'm doing KL local style :-) Well... I found wholesale heaven and china town... Two hours later and no US dollars or Malaysian money later, we went for dinner and then back to her house, via a drive of the city and seeing the Petronas towers illuminated at night :) I li...