Bangkok After 6 weeks travelling around Thailand, we finally got back to where we started… Bangkok. We had left it till the end and had only given ourselves a tight squeeze of 4 days to see what there was in town. We had heard differing opinions on Bangkok and it is definitely a city of contradictions., from the hustle and bustle of the Khao San Road to the quiet of the Royal Palace. The first day in town we had decided to do a bit of shopping as we were ...

Kanchanaburi The journey to Kanchanaburi, was a long and painful one…for me at least. Initially we had to get to Bangkok, which was easy enough as all the travel agents offer trips. This involved a 3 hour ferry ride to Chumphon on the mainland, and then a punishing 10 hour bus ride to Bangkok. Once we arrived in Bangkok, at 5 AM, it was time to get another bus to make the short 2 hr journey across to Kanchanaburi. As mentioned in the previous blog, we wer...

Ko Pha Ngan I deliberately waited a little while before uploading our opinion of Ko Pha Ngan because if I had done it straight away, I may have been unduly harsh. Unfortunately the abiding memory of this island will be the loss of my daybag, and with it everything I hold dear - my gadgets. We lost the bag on the first day and the rest of the trip didn't get much better. Ko Pha Ngan was the last of the islands we hit before returning to the mainland. It is a s...

Koh Tao is located northwest of Koh Samui and was only an easy 3hr boat journey. Koh Tao literally means Turtle Island and is so named because of it's shape and the abundance of green turtles inhabiting the sea around the island. Known as one of Thailand's best dive spots (the island is ranked number two world-wide for issuing PADI certificates) we had chosen this island as the best (and cheapest) place for us to learn to dive. We had selected Crystal Dive as it...

Ko Samui After spending the night in Krabi, we headed across Thailand on our way to Ko Samui. Samui is the 3rd largest Island in Thailand and the biuggest in a chain of Islands known as he Samui Archipelago which includes Ko Tao, Ko Pha Ngan and the Ao thang national marine park. The purpose of going to Samui, was to spend a week at a Spa. Its not exactly your average backpacker activity, but we found out about it online and it sounded quite good and was relat...