Regnum Advenio: Back from Thailand

Back in Singapore now. Man, it's a weird weird feeling. You wake up in one country and then by the end of the day you're in another! It's just so random, all of a sudden you're in a whole new place with a different culture etc.

As an aside, I find airports sort of like this neutral zone, does anyone else find this? It's like you're neither here nor there. Like you're basically in between countries. Weird. I have been in three different airports in the last week. It's crazy!

Anyway, Thailand was an experience in itself! It's just insane, hot and smelly (if you're walking) and reasonably difficult to communicate well with anyone. But it was fun. We did LOTS of shopping in Bangkok - Isaac even got a suit made for relatively cheap - and were only attempted to be ripped off once be a taxi driver. But we managed. The first hostel we checked into (at $5 a night!) was not as awesome as we hoped it would be - bed like a stone tablet and barely a lock on the door - so we checked out after a night. We upgraded our living conditions to a place that charged $15 a night and had a deadlock and free breakfast! Stoked!

Phuket was awesome. We didn't didn't strike out on the hostel this time and it was a great place to stay. Lots of people. Everything was marginally more expensive than BKK but still not THAT expensive. Potong beach (where the tsunami hit) was not as awesome as anticipated.

But we did manage to take a boat out to Kainui island and squeeze in some snorkeling! It was awesome! (Excepting the fish that tried to eat my knee...) But, for that part of the trip I will let the photos speak for themselves...