Well the 3 Chicks finally headed down to the South of Thailand on 27th November. After a pretty horrible 16 hour journey, involving an overnight bus (where our backpacks got broken into down in the hold & I had my Maglite torch & ipod speakers stolen while I was peacefully sleeping upsatirs), we finally arrived in Phuket. We were taken straight to a tour operators, where they wanted to 'help' us by offering advice about accommodation & things ...

Yet another long day of travelling! After a long boat, a 2 hour ferry boat & a bus, we were unceremoniously dumped at a street cafe in Surrathani where we had a 3 hour wait for our next bus, which would take us to yet another ferry port. I think this was the first day that the non-stop travelling started to wear me down & on at least a couple of occasions, I came close to shedding a few tears of frustration & pure exhaustion (little did I know at the ...

We left Ton Sai & jumped into a long boat to take us over to Ao Nang - Krabi's much more built-up & commercialised beach resort. Just getting into the long boat was quite an adventure as we had to literally wade thigh deep through the sea, fully loaded up with our backpacks! At Ao Nang, a bus picked us up to take us to Krabi town ferry port & no sooner had we got onto the bus, when we were introduced to Justin, Toby & Ben from LA, who were als...

Just as well we had an early one for our last night in Phuket as our bus pick-up was bright & early at 7am! After saying goodbye to our lovely hosts at Square One, we set off for the ferry port, where we took a 2 hour ferry ride to Railay Beach - Krabi Island, which we had huge expectations of after hearing from a number of people how idyllic and beautiful it was. And it certainly didn't disappoint! We pulled up to Railay, where a couple next to us asked ...

Having been invited by Jill's uni mate Chris to go & stay with him for a few days in Hanoi, we all jumped at the chance to see another country that we hadn't originally planned on visiting & hey, who are we to turn down free accommodation?! Chris is currently living out there teaching English & assured us that we could get cheap return flights so it didn't take long for the three of us to all vote in favour of this little detour adventure....