I am officially two-thirds done with my degree and by this time tomorrow, Dhu and Boo will be sipping cocktails on the beach and getting massages in Thailand. Hell yeah! After six months of intense work, we're going to treat ourselves to a nice long holiday. We have a whopping seven weeks off before our third (and last) semester so we're going to live it up in South East Asia for the first half and the rest of Australia in the second half.
Travel Itinerary:
Dec 8 - 12: Phuket
Dec 13 - 14: Sea kayaking
Dec 15 - 19: Bangkok
Dec 20 - 23: Trekking in Chiang Mai
Dec 24 - 30: Kuala Lumpur (and Melaka)
Dec 31 - Jan 3: Singapore
We'll be meeting up with some of my friends from DC (Henry, Giles, Rob, Caryn) in Thailand and Ian (Big Easy) is going to meet up with us in Phuket. Indhu is going to head off to KL after Bangkok to spend more time with her grandparents while I'll be trekking in Chiang Mai. Then I'm going to meet up with Indhu and a couple of other friends (Lin and Hani) in Malaysia. Hani is an old friend from high school whom I haven't seen in over five years; she lives in KL and just got married this past July. I can't wait to see her! Lin, whiptail alum extraordinaire, has been globetrotting for a couple of months already. She, Indhu, and I will be taking the train to Singapore for New Year's. Hopefully Lin will still want to do Oz in January after Dhu and I fly back to Adelaide.
No firm plans for January yet, but I'm eager to visit Sydney if nothing else. Also on my list: Brisbane, Cairns, either Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast, Fraser Island, Darwin, and Alice Springs. The Great Barrier Reef is a must see before I leave Australia. Time and budgetary constraints (and sanity) will prevent me from doing it all in January, so I think I will just pick a couple of destinations and take my time at each.
If any of you have some vacation time to burn in January, it's not too late to accompany me on my travels! I could use a travel partner or two and Australia is totally kick ass.
It has been one hairy semester. I can't wait to get out of here. 8 hours and counting before we leave for the airport! I don't know if I'll have a chance to post while I'm gone; if not, happy holidays everyone! Send me your address if you want a postcard!
Peace out.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
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2 comments:
Hey puppy, January might not be such great timing for me, but I'd love to try and see you before you leave Australia, or travel with ya some other time... I want to take a trip somewhere sometime in 07!
-olivia
Awesome! Where do you want to go? I'd like to see New Zealand and Cambodia sometime this year.
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