Beach party to Bali

Pina Coladas Bali style!

The baddie Rangda (left) fighting with the goodie Barong Ket.

The good guy, the Barong Ket (lion), being hassled by the cheeky monkey!

Traditional Barong/Rangda dance at the beautiful Ubud palace, Ubud, central Bali.

Ben and the King of the monkeys, according to our guide! Ben's the one on the right!

Sacred Monkey Forest Temple, Sangeh, Bali, Mid May 2006.

The 'after' shot! Notice a difference?! Totally done in!

Shadow cast by the rising sun behind the mountain onto the surrounding valley.

Spectacular views from the top over Borneo with the clouds resting in the valleys below us.

An exhausted Ben and Chris with our barely out of breath guide Robert.
Finally made the summit, about 5.30am, 4095.2m elevation!
One of the easiest mountains to climb? My a**e!

Sunrise over Borneo from the summit of Mount Kinabalu. 8th May 2006.

View over the clouds from our Laban Rata rest hut about 3300m elevation!

Laban Rata, the halfway point apparently - six bloody km uphill! Halfway!?!

The 'Before' shot of us still in one piece before the Mount Kinabalu ascent!

7th May 2006.

A 'hareem group' (the lucky boy is on the bottom left!) of proboscis monkeys on the Kinabatangan river, Borneo. (You can see why the ladies like him, see the size of that nose!)

Orangs just hangin' around at Sepilok rehab centre! Borneo.

Sunset at the 'Big Marlin', Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Living it up with Singapore Slings (what else?!) at Raffles Hotel Long Room bar, Singapore.

The Petronas twin towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Stunning clear waters, white sand and blue sky of the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

Early May 2006.

Our beach at East Railay, Krabi, South Thailand.



Look at the big elephant! No, the REAL elephant silly!

Chris and Ben do 'James Bond' at Scaramanga's hideaway from 'The Man with the Golden Gun'! Phang Nga Bay near Krabi.

Ben looking much more cool with his hairy primate!

Chris simply glowing with the nearest thing to maternal instinct she'll ever have!!! Beautiful baby gibbon on the floating village of Paynee near Krabi. SO cute!

Long tailed macaque and baby at Monkey temple caves near Krabi. Early May 2006.

Fantastic green turtle who followed our dive boat and got hand fed lettuce! We were so lucky to swim with him on our first outing when he tried to nip Chris!

Ben and his instructor Claudia getting kitted up and 'Buddy checking' each other (!?!) before a dive at the Similan Islands. End April 2006.

Mandatory tropical beach sunset shot!

Ben and our adopted dog Scooby at our favourite restaurant on Samui where we ate beautiful fresh fish and drank copious Pina Coladas!

Sea kayaking at Angthong marine park.

Chris posing shamelessly at Angthong National marine park where we went snorkelling and kayaking.

Our beautiful beach, Koh Samui, Mid April 2006

Ben after way too many rum buckets! Alcohol has a lot to answer for!
Full Moon party, Koh Phan Ngan.

"'Apocalypse Now' without the war!" Fire dancer, Full Moon Party,
Koh Phan Ngan, April 14th 2006.

Songkran! Thai New Year: basically one big excuse for a huge nationwide water fight - and we took several soakings!