Day 38: Thursday 24th March. Journey from Koh Tao to Phuket. By Chris. We started early this morning and headed off to the port in the back of a pick up truck (local taxi service) to board our Catamaran towards Koh Phangan where we would then change boats and head to Koh Samui before reaching the mainland and boarding our bus towards Phuket. Unfortunately the speed of the boat, the size of the waves and the amount of Whiskey consumed the previous night whilst pa...

Day 34 - 37: Sunday 20th - Wednesdat 23rd March (By AJ). Koh Tao. Our few days on the Island of Koh Toa were absolutely fantastic! We got a room a 2 minute walk away from the beach front and basically chilled for 3 days on the sand and in the sea. We also had some lovely walks along the coast to the harbour, picnics and smoothies on the beach and did lots of snorkelling - the north end of the beach was a perfect spot to see coral and fish. They were so colourfu...

Day 32: Friday 18th March (By AJ) Bangkok. Arrived back in Bangkok early this morning and had a group breakfast of waffles and fruitsalad :) Got to the best hotel room EVER! and after showering and unpacking we all got the boat to Koa San Road, which gave a great view of the river bank despite the cloudy sky. Chris and I then got a random tuk-tuk tour and visited the standing Budha, Golden mountain, Reclining Budha, a lucky tower (and a few random Thailand suit...

Hey guys! So here is our first blog update! ... Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. (15th, 16th and 17th Feb 2011). by AJ. Arriving in Bangkok! So our trip didn't get off to a great start - to cut a long story short, our flight from Manchester to London was delayed so we missed our connecting flight to Bangkok and had to be put up in a hotel for the night. To be honest, this was a bit of a bonus compared to our 4 pound hostel we had booked for Bangkok, especially as w...