Today started our long return home. We left Koh Phi Phi after the long hike over the top that I mentioned in the last post. This is the view from the ferry leaving. You can see the cliff that we were climbing just the day before.
At this point I am afraid that you will find the pictures sparse. However, some incredible events transpired when we started our homeward bound journey. As we were leaving, we received an email from Alex, the owner of a yacht that we had interiewed for. He asked us if it was at all possible to divert on our way home and visit with him and his wife in London for a second interview. Bare with me here... Whilst we were traveling from Phi Phi to KL, which included a 3 hour ferry, 6 hour bus, an overnight in Hat Yai (train station town) , and an overnight 15 hour train, we were frantically trying to find out if it was possible to make it to London. So this means we had to line up the timing, see if we could do it economically, and convey the plans to try and firm up the when and where to meet in London- not to mention transfers in London and where to stay. This was mostly done on the train to KL. Our airlines told us it would cost about twice as much as the original ticket to make the change. They told us this the first 4 times we called, on the fifth they gave us a different answer. So the plan that materialized was that we would fly to Istanbul from KL on the same day we arrived in KL. We backed up our connection for our flight from Istanbul to Houston and purchased a round trip ticket Istanbul- London- Istanbul. The airline people were confused as well....
Once we got the plans settled., we decided to make the best of our day layover in KL. Our train got in at 5:30 am and our flight left at 11:30 pm, so we explored around taking in the sights. I took Arwyn by a few places David and Kim showed me when they lived here. We saw he Petromis Towers (above) and my brother's old office building (below).
We enjoyed some good meals and left perfectly on time for the airport on the KL express. From here, over night to Istanbul and connect to London.
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