Fecking Hell i'm tired. Just had to get up at 1:00 am this morning after 2 hours kip and climb 3700m up a volcano in the dark to get there for sunrise. Which was spectacular (pics will be up once I get to Ozz...promise) but just highlighted how unfit i am at the moment. Climbed with a guide who does it everyday and 2 canadians who were both 21 and struggled as well. Although they didn't have a massivo camera strapped to their backs. But i did get far nicer pics! Then went and looked at all the usual volocano stuff. Smoking holes, coking eggs in the ground and various other geo-thermic things.

Got down by about 9 and headed over to some hot springs for relaxing pool action. Although i have managed to get my face quite fried which is a mystery as i did put sun screen on :(( The best part of the day was heading to the Monkey temple which is a park infested with grey macaw mokeys which are all cheeky wee shites. Brought some bananas to give to the wee 'uns only to have some monster monkey lift them right out of a buttoned pocket. Saw some monkey XXX rated action which was wierd and a big dirty snake which scared my guide so much that he screamed like a girl and jumped onto my back. had to sit the poor bugger down after to try and calm him down. He is prob more scared of snakes than u are Ruth!! It was about 2m long though and i did nearly stand on it so might have been a little dicey.

Off to Ozz tomorrow and will have to get back to cheap street as it's meant to be well pricey. I'm not a contractor anymore and need to stop thinking like one :(

So I guess this is the end of my South East Asian leg of the trip. It's absolutly flown and i've had a blast, met loads of cool people and seen things I had only dreamed about it before!! But as with all travelling there is always more to see so i may be back in this part of the world again at somepoint!!

Speak to u next in ther land of downunder....

Mex