named Nim Thongsuk on his family's large green lands.

The private sculpture park sits at the top of Pom Mountain one of the highest peaks in the island

There are statues of all shapes and sizes scattered around with some hiding behind trees

As they are based on Thai folklore and mythology each statue has a story

Thongsuk continue to develop this garden until his death at the age of 91

It's very nice, very relaxing

Everyone here is so sweet I really like all the hotel staff

When you bump into anyone, or actually just Thai people are generally very nice, aren't they?

Yeah just walking down the road everyone is like: Hello!

Oh, hi!

Even checking in 'Oh your booking agent has booked you a double...'

Is this correct?

Yes, that is right! I'd actually written ahead and said we are a married couple please give us a king size bed

'I'm too far away from you in the bed'

I sleep on the edge of the bed, always

It does not matter how big the bed is I sleep on the edge

A kind size you are over there

A kind size would be very useful at home in England when we got the dogs who also take more than 1/3 of the bed

I take another third, the dogs take up more than a third, that leaves you with 1/8 or something

Four beings sleeping in our bed

Thailand is much more... like I didnt feel awkward asking for a double because their

They are much more liberal in that type of thing

You've all asked about it. I said you all... most people have been leaving comments

specially on our joined instagram

if you don't already follow that...

Throw that in...

And it said you know, 'are you ok in Malaysia? Is it dangerous there because homosexuality is ilegal?'

' Don't be to open and gay, omg'

And obviously because we already own the flat in KL it's not like we had to check in

Or have someone check us out

So this is the first time we've been checking into a hotel

The flat in Malaysia was my mom's so she left it to me and my sister

Which is very nice that Julia and I can be in touch with our family

So that is why we just go and my auntie looks after it, she let's us in

So it's all very chill in there

And obviously your family, we say you are half malaysian

'Are the Malaysian family ok with the gayness?'

Well actually the first time we both came out which was...

Two years ago .

In January two years ago was when we were engaged and I did say to Jessica like look,

It's ilegal to be gay in Malaysia

and my family on the whole are quite Christian cause they are Chinese, they are not Malay

You should probably explain about ethnicities in Malaysia

Well, I'm not like an expert but...

I'm half Malaysian. I call myself half Malaysian because my mum was a Malaysian citizen

But she is Chinese ethnically, so she is Chinese-Malaysian

But then you know, what is ethnically anything?

And there are different types

There are sort of more distinct ethnicities in Malaysia, so you have the Chinese group

and you have the Indians, and then you have Malay.

And then you have a mixture cause obviously there is mixed raced between those

And indigenous people

Yeah, and then you get the Malay indigenous people

And then you of course get the expats like some white people as well

Those different ethnic groups would call themselves Malaysian

Yeah and the different ethnic groups each have their own religion as well

So although Malaysia is... (obviously people from there) a Muslim country

that is the Malay population rather than Claud's family who are Chinease-Malay

who are more Christian or Taoists.

My grandfather was... when my mum was little he was more like Budist-Taoist

but then in time they all became more Christian.

How many generations back did your family come to Malaysia?

I think it was like my great-grandfather, so my mother's grandfather

So my grandfather's father, or it might have been his grandfather

They came from an area of China, I think Canton cause that's why they speak Cantonese

But all of them came from China as tin miners

Because there was a lot of tin in Malaysia

And then they all married within the same ethnic group, that's why people can still be completely ethnically Chinese

So that was pretty interesting, there is loads of...

[J interrupts] But there you go the point is Claud's family are OK with the GAY!

Yes!

That was were we were going with that

And in terms of Malaysia travelling as a gay couple we are just respectful of the country

Despite what you see on Youtube and our Instagram those are our private moments almost that we share with you

Even in Brighton we don't go around like snogging

We don't snog on the internet

Well no that's true

So in Malaysia, the same sort of thing applies, we are more... we keep our relationship more private I guess

We are not like hiding anything, if someone came up to us and asked us 'are you a couple?'

We would say yes, why not, we are married

We are legally married

It's completely fine for us and we are tourist

That applies to the world

And people are not naive to that, they know is legal in different countries

We are not shoving it down people's throats or their faces

No no

Also I think the things that we do are read in a different way

If you are from a country were being gay is quite an open thing and you see gay couples in the news, media

When you see a couple holding hands in the street and it's two women or two mean, gay is going to be one of your first thoughts

It's going to be like oh, is that a gay couple?

Whereas here when they see two girls holding hands and walking down the street most people seem to assume

friends or sisters because it's not so far forward in their conciousness

Maybe

That's why we get asked a lot if we are sisters

That is similar in England in some places to be fair

When we were down in the west-country in Cornwall visiting your mom I think we got asked all the time

are we sisters?

Like every day! We are not even the same race!

Christ!

Oh the passports! Yeah yeah!

Oh my God!

When we arrived in Thailand, was it here? No?

Malaysia was it? When we were leaving Malaysia to come to Thailand

we were going through passport control and in the hurry of things Jessica had passed me her passport

and she got mine and we didn't realise we went up to different counters

and the woman had looked at my passport being like yeah, fine...

Then you have to do the little like ID finger test and they would scan your fingerprint to double check it's you

and it scanned, and it scanned...

And we were both waiting...

And whilst I was still there holding my fingers like this is taking a long time, and the woman was 'this is taking a long time;

Over at my counter the guy was just happily flirting away with me, and on the flirty spree he goes:

Ok Claudia!

Nop

And then she came running up like I've got your passport!

And I was like oh!And this woman was like 'who is this?'

I was like oh that's the girl who's passport you are holding

But yeah anyway back to the fact that we basically look like sisters

Anyway we are just waffling on

I think the important thing is just to be respectful of each other's cultures

So be respectful with the fact that they maybe don't want to see gay kissing in the streets

And they should be respectful of the fact that we are married

We kinda came up with this policy, when someone comes up and says 'oh are you sisters?'

Might be an older person or something, like you said, it's not in fron of their mind that we might potentially be a couple

Then we will probably just say yeah!

No no, we are best friends±

Because is just why embarass the person

Why invite any sort of awkwardness, we are just on holiday, just being polite and kind

Equally, if someone comes up and says 'oh are you a couple?' we are not going to be like OH NO!

Like we know we are not hiding anything, and that is just how we deal with our sexuality

in a place where is not considered, well, were is not legal I guess

Yeah

Cause is not illegal for us to be

We are not malaysian

we are allowed to visit the country, is not Rusia

I don't think we'd be allowed in Rusia

Exactly, that's why I said it

We literally promote gayness .

Yeah we are not allowed in Rusia

Yeah and Malaysian citizens, we have plenty Malaysian who watch us and is not banned, they are not banned to watch us

Hi guys!

And it's very interesting cause now we are in Thailand is like, it does highlight those things

Because as we were saying sexuality here is viewed very differently

mainly because their main relegion in the country

The main thing is Buddhism, that's why they had this book in the room

And I opened it on a page and where was it

It was the page about human sexuality

I was literally just saying to Jessie: oh what do you think thais think of sexuality?

And here's the page:

'What does Buddhism have to say about human sexuality?'

I thought it was quite interesting

Buddist teaching do not view same-sex relationships conducted between two consenting adults as inheritably evil

The Buddhist ways reflections on sexual desire are equally true and applicable whatever gender your object of desire might be

So there we go

They think there is nothing wrong with same-sex love and sexual relationships

Which I thought was very encouraging

I hope we have answered some of your questions

Sorry for waffling on!

We are gonna go to the pool!

I love your oh it's alright..

hahaha I said is alright cause I'm going to edit this later

Wecome to room toor number 2!

So we are now in the Fairhouse VIllages and spa, we have this little villa all to ourselves

Come upstairs here

We have our little chairs so we can sit in the evening and look out at this beautiful

Oh my god look at that view!

They even have plug points here

In case you want to charge your phone whilst sitting in the evening

Now onto the thing that I am most excited by

Look at this

I love it and Im not even showing you the room and that's beautiful too

So through this sliding doors

I really like sliding doors

Come in

Sofa

Television

Fridge underneath

With, and this I really like, complimentary water bottle is already in the fridge

That's an important detail

Hopefully Claudia can have her tea now

in the mornings cause you know she needs it

Beach towels

You'll like this mug

Claudia likes any kind of rustic looking earth ware...

[ Claudia laugs]

We are such old ladies, all our likes and dislikes are just

I lovely place to sit, do your make up

And I really like by the way that this hotel is very into green conservation and whatnot

And they have a special garden where they grow all their own fruit, vegetables and herbs so you can go visit

And they only wash your things if you ask

and they change your bed every third day

Lovely big wardrove

oh!

a torch!

In case you get stuck in the garden

I think you need it at night-time for the beach

Oh .yeah

Better take this with us then

What's in here?Oh hair dryer, I thought it was going to be really exciting

And come and see the bathroom

It has the heaviest door so bear with me

There's a bath!

And a useful towel on the floor!

Nice tiles

It's gorgeous

Look at it, oh yeah

Eugh...

It's gross look

It's growing through the bandage

I'm gonna have a third foot by the time we get back to england

Anyway look at this

I really appreciate this too

Nice bowl

Look at the outside

Rather nice isn't it?

Shower, very important for you

Yeah

You don't shower