So, the plans are (reasonably) set. The tickets have been purchased, and now it's just days away.
Andrew and I fly out of UB on Mongolian Airlines at 5:00pm on Saturday, Dec. 15. We arrive in Seoul just after nine. We hope to meet up with many of our old friends from various phases of our lives and have a nice get-together. We will be spending 2 days in South Korea, and fly to Bangkok by Korean Airlines at 5:25pm on Monday, Dec. 17.
We will arrive in Bangkok 3 1/2 hrs later only to get a hotel room and catch a flight to Phnom Penh at 7:00 the next morning. We'll spend 2 days in the Cambodian capital before sailing up the river for 5-6 hrs to Siem Reap. We plan to spend 4 days or so there to check out Angkor Wat amid various other ancient temples, and do some interaction with the locals, and maybe even ride an elephant.
From Siem Reap, we will fly back to Bangkok. Originally, we had planned on taking the overnight train to Chiang Mai to spend a few days in the north, but we have decided to scratch that idea to provide us some leeway in case we want to spend an extra day or two somewhere. Chiang Mai also made the trip seem much more scheduled than we wanted it to be. Now, we will either spend an extra day in Siem Reap, maybe pend a day or two in Bangkok, or head down to Ko Samui for a couple of days to do some sea kayaking or snorkeling. We plan on being in Ko Phangan (an island just north of Ko Samui) by Dec. 28. We will be spending New Year's Eve there, and enjoying one of Ko Phangan's Full Moon Parties. While there we will definitely be renting some mopeds to check out the island jungle, and spend much time on the beach outside of the bungalow we plan to rent.
Jan. 1 or 2 will find us traveling back to Bangkok to spend our last few days before flying back to UB via Seoul on Jan. 5. Conveniently we lift off at 2:50am, and then have a nice 11 hr layover in Seoul. We will be back in UB at 12:35 in the morning on Jan. 6, giving us a day of rest before our professional development on Monday, Jan. 7. I have a feeling I won't be partying much for my birthday in 2008.
So, officially...
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy birthday to anyone that applies to.
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You remembered my birthday??? That's the nicest thing EVER!!!!!!!
Your travels sound pretty awesome, Angkor Watt is #1 on my "Places to Go Before I Die" list. So be sure to do something Glennish while you're there, just so it can be like I'm there...
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