Aly and Em: We left Bangkok on the night bus heading towards Ko Phangan. Thought that our luck was in due to the bus being practically empty - how wrong we were! The full bus took 10hrs to reach the 'ferry port' which meant that we arrived in the pitch black at 4am! We had to sit and wait outside for four hours for our ferry. We arrived at our bungalows just after mid day, they were worth the effort of getting there and were absolutely beautiful. They were litera...

Julie: Well, we are back in Bangkok again and we are starting to feel quite at home really. Someone even stopped us today to ask for directions somewhere so we think our fantastic tans (and dirty clothes) made them think we are well travelled backpackers!. Tonight we are getting an overnight bus to the Loas border and onto Vientiene, which is the Laos capital. Apart from the fact that a nearly 12 hour journey on a bus is never fun (although Katie has kept me e...

Julie: Sorry for not having written on this site before but i am working hard on being the most tanned backpacker in town and it takes hard work. Too much writing may be taking precious time from my schedule of lying on the beach. But just wanted to say that Ko Chang is beautiful and i can\'t believe that we will be going into Laos so soon. Xx

Well here we are now in Ko Chang which is an island on the East coast of thailand near Cambodia. We arrived here on Saturday, having decided we needed to get out of Bangkok (again). We are currently waiting for our visas to come through for Laos, vietnam and cambodia so figured rather than stay in Bangkok this little island would be far more fun. Had a little panic the first night we arrived we couldn't find anywhere toi stay and the plces we did were far too exp...

What an adventure we have had! We were picked up early from the hotel and just as we finished straping our bags to the roof of our slightly rusty minibus it started the pour with rain- just our luck as everyone elses bags managed to fit inside the damn thing! On the first day in Kanchanaburi we visited the war cemetry, which commemorated soldiers from WW2 we then went on a bamboo raft downt he river Kwai - it wasn't too much like hard work as only the lads at the...