In.... Malaysia!

Hello! ... It's been awhile since the last blog update (and awhile since i promised more pictures... heh) -- but, here are both! (The pictures only go through southern India, by the way)

We flew out of India and into Sri Lanka for two weeks since the last post! Sri Lanka is a really beautiful place; basically one huge botanical garden. However, one strange thing was going to places where the tsunami hit... lots of half demolished buildings, piles and rubble, and foundations strewn around ... (oh, and avoid Sri Lankan cuisine ... short eats and hoppers... bleah)

After Sri Lanka, we flew into Singapore -- Singapore is an amazing city! It's on its own island on the very southern tip of Malaysia... the whole country is only 700 km square, but the cleanliness, efficiency, and ... well ... cleanliness after being in India and Sri Lanka is astounding!

And now, to Malaysia! -- we just got to Melacca a couple of days ago, and are going to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow! After that, we've come full circle back up to Thailand... crazy...

Oh, that reminds me! ... for all of those people who read this and want to know if we're coming back, we are flying into Vancouver on the 3rd of May :( .... uhhhhh .... not that we don't want to come back to real life or anything!



You can never go wrong with beach life:



Puja ceremony in Madurai:



Vendor selling all kinds of colorful goodies at a bus station:


Ancient temple in the south:


Hiking through the 'Scotland of India'!


Night trains, baby... after 12 hours of this, you typically don't look quite so happy:


Colorful sadhus!


A street in Mysore:


Katie with her new full-length-arm-tattoo!
(alright, alright... it's only henna :)


The ancient ruins of Hampi!