Slack me

Hi all, I've been very slack and haven't emailed much. I'm sorry. It's just that when it comes down to it I'd much rather be outside traveling than in an internet cafe. I'll have to fill you all in when I get home.

In the interim, Anne and I have made our way from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, where we hung out for 5 days cos I like the City of Angels etc so much (the 'etc' in the name is because the Thai name for Bangkok is actually the longest city name in the world, in Thai it's normally shortened to "City of Angels Etc Etc"). Then we hopped an overnight train to Malaysia and here we've been in Penang (great Chinatown, English-esque hill tops), Palua Pangkor - cos Anne was missing the beach, and now the Cameron Highlands, which is famous for it's cool weather - it's only 20 degrees today, and tea plantations. We're staying in very colonial style accomodation, in a guesthouse that includes an old english style house - too expensive for us, and some "Nissan-style huts" that were built for British troops in the fifties. They look weird but are quite comfortable inside. We went on a great tour today, tasted lots of tea, walked in the cloud forest and did heaps more. It was very fun.

We only have a few more days to go, time enough for another National Park - Taman Nagara, and a couple of days in Kuala Lumpur. We are back on the evening of the first of Feb.