http://jamesfreeston.com A journal of our travels through india and south east asia Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:23:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 It is our final day in Thailand and almost the end of our trip. It is almost unbelievable that we have been away for five months and covered such a huge distance. Right now it seems almost as unbelievable that this time tomorrow we will be back in England finding ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=124 Leaving Ko Tao was pretty tough because it was the first time that we had no choice about where we wanted to go. For the first time in five months our destination was decided for us. Bangkok and back to Hastings. We caught the high speed ferry off the island ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=123 Our final days on Ko Tao where the perfect beach holiday to end our already lengthy break. After the slight dissapointment with the diving company we had chosen we took a break and spent two very enjoyable days doing nothing much except trying to burn beautiful images into my mind ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=122 Ko Tao has once again proved to be a very pleasant place to stay. When we arrived we were told that the weather had been very unsetteld with lots of storms and a choppy sea but it seems that we are in luck. We have been treated to one ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=121 We left the Perenthians at 8:00 yesterday morning and arrived on Ko Tao at 7:30 this morning. It is the second longest journey we have undertaken, the first being that awful trip from Vientianne to Hanoi. We began by catching a speedboat to the mainland in which we got thoroughly ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=120 The journey from Georgetown to the Perenthians was a long and uncomfortable one but we had a bit of luk in Kota Bharu where we found a connecting bus in the middle of the night. It meant that we didn't have to wait for hours for a taxi and sit ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=119 Getting back to Malaysia from Indonesia turned into a bit of a strange journey and getting away from Georgetown isn't proving any easier. We left a virtually tourist free Sumatra and have arrived in the peak of Malaysias holiday season. Yesterday we went and tried to buy bus tickets to ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=118 This morning we left Bukit Lawang at the ungodly hour of four in the morning. We chartered a car to take us to Medan where we wanted to catch the ferry to Malaysia. We made it in time to the ferry office only to be told that there were no ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=117 It seems that most of this blog has been about the journeys we have been on and less about the destination. However once again it was the journey from Berastagi to Bukit Lawang that has to be mentioned first. We climbed onto a packed local bus to get from Berastagi ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=116 The journey from Lake Toba to Berastagi has left me more confused than ever about Indonesia. It is so hard to say whether I love or hate this place. On the one hand we were warned of the dangers of travelling on local transport and that we should keep our ... http://jamesfreeston.com/index.php?p=115