The end of the last hurrah....

This post has taken a while to write, because as soon as we got back to Australia we landed in the chaos of wedding preparations and catching up on 2 months of work, so we got distracted. Anyway, it's time to write about the last few days of our trip. but first, we have put some videos up on youtube from our travels:

http://www.youtube.com/smellandsnott

We spent the last few days of our trip just chilling out on Ko Chang, an island about 6 hours from bangkok. While we were there we did a lot of serious relaxing, lying in hammocks, playing cards, swimming at the beach, drinking with other travellers, and even one infamous karaoke session in a local bar....

We did also get a bit active - we went on a jungle trek one day, through some gorgeous forest - we visited a waterfall and even got a chance to see a tarantula - we thought the guide was joking when he said he would show us one, but he got us all to squat down quietly near a hole (well the girls all stood around at the back!) while he poked into it with a stick, and the tarantula sprang out to the front of its hole, fangs bared! After we'd taken some photos the guide blew on it and it ran back inside. We were very wary of small holes for the rest of the day.

Tarantula!!

Scott the monkey

Another day we went to play with elephants! As has previously been explained on this blog, Shelley loves elephants, so she was in heaven. We got to swim with them, feed them and go on a trek - our elephant was the young naughty one who kept veering off the path to try to find some food in the trees nearby, but we still liked her. We like the naughty ones.

Finally, on our last full day we went on a snokelling trip where we had a couple of great snorkels around the islands - so many colourful fish and coral! The black spiky anenomes and the long skinny pointy fish were our favourites. We also tried some fishing - no luck, although shelley wasn't sure what she would have done if she'd caught anything - and went for some swims near a beach. There was also much beer drinking and it was a really fun relaxing last day.

Then that was it! Back to the boat and the bus and the plane and back to Australia! We did have a great time on our trip and were reluctant to come home - but we do have a lot to do now!!