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Michelle O'Riordan takes a year from rowing and travels the world. Part VI - 26th July 2003.

Michelle's Grand Tour (part VI)

Michelle O'Riordan
2006-03-12 13:00:09

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Hello all - how is everyone?

I am writing from Cape Tribulation, on the northern tip of Austrailia - have just been on a fantastic walk along the beach and stumbled onto the only food store in town (actually, there's no town really!). I am sitting on one of only two PC's.

It seems an age away since my last travel installment - I have done so much since then that I'll just give you a taster of what I have been up to...

Before that, I just wanted to say good luck to everyone for Staines Regatta and I hope you all have a great day!

After the Full Moon party, we headed over to the island of Koh Phi Phi. This island has become famous as it was the place where the film 'The Beach' was made. The beach is in a beautiful bay surrounded by limestone cliffs and jungle - it is definitely by favourite island so far. The water is crystal clear and really shallow and it is teeming with fish. Best of all, this island has no cars on it apart from some mad cyclists who whizz around inches away from you!

From Koh Phi Phi we headed into Malaysia. We went to the island of Penang and stayed there for a couple of days. We had every intention of doing the 'cultural/sightseeing' thing but we got really excited at the numerous shopping plazas and the amazingly cheap price tags and basically spent our entire time shopping! The people of Malaysia are a mixture of indians/chinese and malays and they all seem to get along very well. Malaysia feels so much more westernised than Thailand. I was over the moon to find decent biscuits here as the Thai biscuits are not quite the same as an english biscuit!.

After Penang, we headed across to the east coast of Malaysia to the Perhentian islands - these islands are considered to be amongst the best islands in Malaysia and the most unspoilt - I would have to agree - they are beautiful. We spent a great deal of time lazing on the beach, drinking ...