After having checked out of our Singapore apartment on 26 December, J and I went to visit her family in Perth. Since it was the middle of the Australian summer, it was hot as hell there – around 40 degrees in the daytime. At least it wasn’t as humid as in Singapore anymore!
Over the course of the four days we were there, we had a belated Christmas dinner with J’s family (more aunties and uncles!), met some of J’s friends, went to the beach, and drove down south to Dunsborough and Margaret River, where we visited a few more beaches and went wine tasting at a vineyard.
The most amazing and most important thing of the four days though was that we visited a wildlife park that had all of the Australian animals like kangaroos, wallabies, emus etc. – and I got to hold and cuddle a koala! It was indeed quite furry and was eating eucalyptus all the time that was constantly being replenished by some caretaker – and whenever she came with a new bunch of eucalyptus branches, the koala on my arm greedily turned to her and reached for the new food. It was definitely quite an experience!
On December 30, we left Australia for Myanmar.
Some pictures follow.