i got my camera back!!!!!!!!! thanks to the british girls who dance on the stage at slinky's bar who i ran into and i'm pretty sure are the reason word got out enough to get it back. and thanks to all our new friends here on Phi Phi who helped spread the word and look around and who had such positive and encouraging things to say to us.
this situation couldn't have ended any better... not only did i get my photos/memory card back, but my whole camera; i didn't have to spend $40 on printing flyers; and the $170 reward was given to the 7 months pregnant lady who worked at the restaurant and who had been incredibly sweet to us previously. i am happy to give that money to her and her new baby. :-)
worst day ever turned into something incredible!!
ok now on to update you all on what's been going on because i have too much energy from being so happy to go to bed....OR not because the lady just told me I have 5 minutes until they close.
so quick recap by date: April 28th through may 3rd, we went to Kjahuro as you know, then to the Taj Mahal in Agra, then on to Jaipur (where i bought an emerald!), then back to delhi.
on the 3rd, we flew to bangkok then went directly to cambodia and spent a few days in siem reap and toured the temples of angkor wat by bike. siem reap was AWESOME. met cool people and partied a lot. then we went to sinhouville (i dunno the spelling still). it's a beach in cambodia. it was really pretty/nice but kinda trashy.
it was at this point we heard that the tiger petting zoo was in northern thailand, not near bangkok like we thought... so we rushed everything and traveled 25 hours straight by train and bus to get to chiang mai. it was WELL worth it. the tigers were amazing as you can see, we met some really awesome aussies and had a blast hanging with them and doing the longest zipline in the world! and hiking, rafting, riding elephants, etc. chiang mai is such a cool place to go. the tourism there (as well as the rest of thailand) is SO well organized!
then on the 16th (i think) we flew down to phuket and immediately left for koh phi phi island (pronounced pee pee) because phuket was kinda trashy and filled with lady boys (aka transgender prostitutes)....
phi phi is AWESOME. it is where the beach was filmed. it may just be the most beautiful place i've ever seen. and thanks to finding my camera, you'll all get to see it too when i post pics!!
we were supposed to go to the full moon party tomorrow but when the camera got lost we changed our minds. now that it's found, we haven't decided. we kinda realized that our partying in thailand has only brought bad luck (my camera, our aussie friend's foot got slashed open due to a pool hopping incident, and well... there was another incident with cathy that i'm sure we will blog about soon... it may just be "too soon" right now though). we'll see but either way we are headed to koh samui and koh tao soon to snorkel more and kayak and cave etc. thailand is my favorite place on this trip so far. we've been meeting some really fun people and having a blast dancing til all hours of the night... last night cathy and i got hot on the dance floor (the clubs are on the beach here), so we went into the water (low tide) and danced there for hours... kicking water in the air and getting soaked in our dresses. i DID cut my foot and have to "sit out" for a bit until it stopped bleeding but it wasn't bad! and don't worry mom and dad - i used bactroban (and windex ;-)) and it's fine!
ok i gotta go because they are closing here but i'm SO happy we got my camera back and i'm looking forward to cherishing the rest of the trip and taking lots of pics! we only have ONE week left!!!
love,
laura
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