Well, we’ve been traveling for 9 months. Three quarters of our trip is over, and it is still wonderful. Virtually everyone we’ve met wants to know our favorite. There isn’t one favorite, but we can tell you our favorite for individual things.
Best food: Tie between Italy and France
Best Beaches: Thailand
Best Scenery: Norway
Best Hiking: Great Britain, Tanzania
Best Medium City: Venice
Best Overall City: Paris
Best Museum: The Hermitage (Musee d’Orsay is close second)
Best National Park: Plitvice, Croatia
Best Building: Taj Mahal
Friendliest People, in their own country: Myanmar, Great Britain
Friendliest Fellow Travelers: Holland, Australia and Germany
Best Wild Animals: Kruger, South Africa
Back to our current travels, if you look on a map, the Thai peninsula is really narrow, but it is a 5
hour bus ride across it. We stop for a couple of nights at a national park, renown for the jungle and animals living in it. While we hear there are elephants, tigers, cobras and pythons around, the only animal we fear are the leeches. Did you know that these disgusting bloodsuckers can penetrate through your clothing? The hiking was great, though, and we really enjoyed swimming in a rift between two cliffs. The park was empty enough that we felt comfortable skinny dipping, although other hikers joined us after we were re-dressed.
Where in the World are Ethan and Siena? They are in front
of a group of mangrove trees, along the coast of Thailand. This region of the Andaman Coast was hit hard by the devastating tsunami of 2004, when thousands of people on the islands and along this coast were swept into the sea. The sheer cliffs that hem in much of this coast are beautiful, but caused many deaths, as the people could not flee the rising water. There was no notice, and residents tell of standing on the cliffs watching helplessly.
The area has been completely rebuilt. While the visibility is not nearly as good as on the east coast islands, the hiking and climbing here are much better. We stay on Railay Beach, a small isthmus of land, completely cut off from the rest of the mainland, by towering cliffs. We take longtail boats back and forth to the port. The karsts rising from the water are dramatic, and we spend days swimming around them and into the caves the ocean has formed. To see stalactites
dripping off 300 foot cliffs, touching the ocean at high tide is awesome!
We hope we continue to enjoy our travels for the last 3 months, and look forward to hearing from YOU.
Chock Dee!
The Beatties
Best food: Tie between Italy and France
Best Beaches: Thailand
Best Scenery: Norway
Best Hiking: Great Britain, Tanzania
Best Medium City: Venice
Best Overall City: Paris
Best Museum: The Hermitage (Musee d’Orsay is close second)
Best National Park: Plitvice, Croatia
Best Building: Taj Mahal
Friendliest People, in their own country: Myanmar, Great Britain
Friendliest Fellow Travelers: Holland, Australia and Germany
Best Wild Animals: Kruger, South Africa
Back to our current travels, if you look on a map, the Thai peninsula is really narrow, but it is a 5
hour bus ride across it. We stop for a couple of nights at a national park, renown for the jungle and animals living in it. While we hear there are elephants, tigers, cobras and pythons around, the only animal we fear are the leeches. Did you know that these disgusting bloodsuckers can penetrate through your clothing? The hiking was great, though, and we really enjoyed swimming in a rift between two cliffs. The park was empty enough that we felt comfortable skinny dipping, although other hikers joined us after we were re-dressed.Where in the World are Ethan and Siena? They are in front
of a group of mangrove trees, along the coast of Thailand. This region of the Andaman Coast was hit hard by the devastating tsunami of 2004, when thousands of people on the islands and along this coast were swept into the sea. The sheer cliffs that hem in much of this coast are beautiful, but caused many deaths, as the people could not flee the rising water. There was no notice, and residents tell of standing on the cliffs watching helplessly.
The area has been completely rebuilt. While the visibility is not nearly as good as on the east coast islands, the hiking and climbing here are much better. We stay on Railay Beach, a small isthmus of land, completely cut off from the rest of the mainland, by towering cliffs. We take longtail boats back and forth to the port. The karsts rising from the water are dramatic, and we spend days swimming around them and into the caves the ocean has formed. To see stalactites
dripping off 300 foot cliffs, touching the ocean at high tide is awesome!We hope we continue to enjoy our travels for the last 3 months, and look forward to hearing from YOU.
Chock Dee!
The Beatties
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