Our stay at Malari Beach came to an end today as we bid farewell to cottage 32. It was a very early start as we had to be ready to hit the road at 4am. You know how it is the night before you have to be up early and you just keep waking up thinking you’ll miss the alarm. That exactly what was happening to me last night. I gave up in the end and got up at 2.30am and decided to do my run every day session out and back along the beach. 

It’s slightly weird running on sand in the middle of the night, in the dark with the waves crashing on the beach. What’s even weirder is that I wasn’t the only one on the beach at that hour. First there was a fisherman preparing his boat, his figure emerging out of the dark. Then there were a couple of people sat around a camp fire – they looked like they’d been there all night. As I ran past, they were a bit startled and shone their torches at me. Finally, I came across a group of street dogs on the beach. They were also a bit surprised to see me and one of them woofed at me. I took that as a sign to turn around and head back. It was only a short one mile run, but the main point was I did it and kept up my 27 day streak of running every day.

I got back to the cottage, showered, made Mike a coffee and then put the bags out ready for them to be collect. Bang on cue at 3.45 a porter driving the electric tuk tuk turned up and loaded them onto the back to take them to reception. Vaishakh was waiting for us as we arrived. I paid the last of our bill and checked out. Slightly sad that another chapter of our adventure was closing, but excited about what’s still to come.