Shannon & Pamela's Adventures
 *We Will Pack Our Lives With Great Memories* We are now home after travelling for almost 13 months, or 55 weeks, or 388 days. We have been to 8 counties over 3 continents, seen 7 capital cities and went to 6 of the 8 Australian state capitals. It definitely feels weird to be back. Good weird and bad weird. Good because we are home and enjoying home comforts, from food to sleeping arrangements, to seeing friends and family. But bad because it's over, and in some ways it feels like we've never been away, or just like we've been to Spain for a week. Everyone around us has stayed the same in the past year and we have done and seen so many amazing things it's a little hard to fit back into our old lifestyle. People have continuously asked us 'so what's been your highlight?', 'what's the best thing you've done?' But that's a very hard question and also rhetorical because how can we say just one thing, we have done more than we ever imagined and are so grateful. We just want to say 'everything!'. At our surprise welcome home party it became apparent what everyone else would sum up our whole experience- we were in a motorbike accident and we drive posh cars at work! So I've complied a list of our top experiences from Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and China. It's not the first list I've made as it was huge and full of too many of the amazing things we have been lucky enough to have seen and done so this (believe it or not) is the shortened version consisting of our.... "Top 65 Things We've Seen and Done" ...Thailand... *Hugging Tigers *Elephant Mahouts, training and riding *Zip Lining Through a Rainforest *Monkeys at Lopburi *Waterfalls *Riding a Scooter *Bridge over the River Kwai and the Restaurant *Lovely Hotel Suite in Koh Samui *Spending the night on Phi Phi Island *Canoeing at James Bond Island ...Cambodia... *Sunrise at Angkor Wat *Ruins at Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom *Feet Nibbling Fishes ...Kuala Lumpur... *Petronas Towers at Night *Petronas Towers During Day *Luxury Hotel Room ...Singapore... *Singapore Sling in Raffles Bar *Views from Marina Bay Sands Hotel *Clarke Quay *Views from the Singapore Flyer ...Australia... *Fireworks at Brisbane Festival *Broncos Match *Views from Mount Coot-ha *Cake and Whole Experience at Verace Hotel *Views of Surfers Paradise from Q1 tower *Holding a Koala *Feeding Kangaroos *Whale Watching *Seeing Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge for first time...and every time after *Climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge *Watching a Show in The Opera House *Meeting celebrities *Driving Super Cool Cars for Work *Bondi Beach on Christmas Day *New Year in Sydney *Climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge for my Birthday *Formula 1 for Shannon's Birthday *Fairy Penguins *Full Moon Rising in Byron Bay *Gold CoastTheme Parks/Water Park *Supafest *Learning to Surf *4x4 driving and living on Fraser Island *Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsunday Islands *Becoming a SSI Qualified Divers *Scuba Diving in the Great Barrier Reef *Crocodile Feeding in Darwin *Snake Holding *Katherine Gorge *Uluru, Climbing, Sunrise/Sunset *Kata Tjuta *Kings Canyon *Barossa Valley *Great Ocean Road ...New Zealand... *Gorgeous Scenery *Mt Doom and Lord of the Rings Scenery *Digging a Hot Pool *Waitomo Caves *Maori Night and Feast *Ice Bar *Jet Boat *Canyon Swing ...China... *Tianamen Square *Forbidden City ...London... *Hilton Buffet Breakfast There's even more but they are just personal things we will remember such as our first place together, our second place and indeed our time in the campervan. We have had an absolutely amazing adventure, and will forever have some truly great memories. Thank you everyone who has taken the time (and effort) to read our blogs, it has meant a lot to us. I'm not exactly the most gifted at writing (and listening it would seem) but for the most part it has been fun writing down what we have been getting up to, and it's something to keep for the grandchildren. Cheerie, Love Shannon and Pamela xx
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| 27th Jun 2012 Angkor Wat |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Holding a cuddly koala |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Training to be an Elephant Mahout |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Petronas Towers |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Hotel Suite in Koh Samui |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Singapore Slings in Raffles |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Monkeys at Lopburi |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Bridge Over The River Kwai |
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| 27th Jun 2012 On Top of Marina Bay Sands Hotel- Singapore |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Brisbane Festival |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Hug-a-Tiger |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Snake holding |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Amazing Mt Cook |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Whitsunday islands |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Scuba Diving in the Great Barrier Reef |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Sydney at New Year |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Singapore |
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| 27th Jun 2012 The amazing Uluru |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Us in China |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Twelve Apostles |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Sunset at Uluru |
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| 27th Jun 2012 Spending the night on 'The Beach' |
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