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Day 12
Breakfast is included, which is good as it’s a full english, and relatively good, especially compared to dinner yesterday. It’s served in silence by our semi-mute host. We decide to stay another night but to get dinner elsewhere.
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Day 12
location:Penang – Banding Island
summary:In which the travellers encounter wild elephants
trip:sea04
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Day 12
I wake up early, for no specific reason, and find that there are breakfast options, which is something of a luxury. The options are, true to form, completely bizarre, and I end up with something billed as spaghetti bolognese but actually some other pasta dish. Charlie had option 4 which ended up looking like the best choice, though I can’t actually remember what it was.
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Day 12
location:Shamwari / Addo
summary:Drive to Addo Elephant park, afternoon and late evening game drives.
trip:sa02
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Day 12
At precisely 6:30am my phone did not start to make the irritating noise I had been expecting, because in my infinite wisdom I’d left it in vibrate-only mode. Fortunately I had my hand on it at the time and so I did wake up. This was therefore not the event that was to make me miss my train some 70 minutes later.I packed quietly, but had a panic when I couldn’t find my towel. Eventually it was located hanging on the bunk above mine, but this was also not responsible for my missed connection.
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Day 12
We took a local bus for the journey back to Kanchanaburi, which seemed to take a lot longer than the minibus had in the opposite direction. The bus was full, and even had a chicken on board. Accomodation in Kanchanaburi was huts built on stilts in the River Kwai – though they were not really in the river as such, since the water was not flowing past the huts, and a lot of algae and lilypads covered the water’s surface for the most part. Facilities had become one step more basic, with no hot water this time, and no toilet paper either! There was a waste pipe attached to the sink though. Lorna and I got separate rooms this time.
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Day 12
Apart from more Playstation and TV, highlights of the day include going shopping for some new clothes, which are about three or four times cheaper than in the UK, and CDs, which are not. In the evening I go to the local cinema with Simon and Rosemary (his cousin, Mike’s daughter – keep up, willya?) to see The Exorcist. Although I’m a fairly anti-horror person, as many of my friends will attest, I was quite curious to see this famous film.
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Day 12
Leaving Bargara, we continued to journey south. We were now entering ‘big stuff’ country. I give the area this name quite simply because the residents seem to like building enormous copies of fruits and vegetables for no apparent reason. This habit would continue for several hundred miles, but today we saw the first such construction, at the aptly named Big Pineapple Service Station. I’ll leave it to your imagination to work out the details of this one.