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...