<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Our trip from Koh Samui to KL was a bit of an epic... When our taxi arrived at the guesthouse it wasn't the minibus we were expecting, but one of the ute-taxis with already too many people in it. We squeezed in and waved goodbye to Penzy and David and hung on while the driver drove crazily around the island, stopping to pick up 5 more people! How we managed to fit 17 people in one ute I w...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This morning we had arranged to be picked up at 7:15 to do a day trip to Ang Thong National Marine Park. The minibus took about 30 mins to get to the other side of the island where the pier was, but we were one of the last to arrive so the boat left right after. It took about 1.5 hours to get to the Ang Thong Park, which is a group of 42 limestone islands. It's where the book and movie Th...

We've spent 5 days on Koh Samui on Chaweng Beach, staying at a great little place called Penzy's Guesthouse. Penzy and her American husband David are really friendly and have made us feel right at home here! The place is just a short walk from Chaweng Beach, which is a perfect white-sand-clear-water paradise. The beach is about 7km long and we are down towards the south end of it, which is apparently the quieter end. The beach is lined with resorts all the wa...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The ferry to Koh Phangan left Chumphon at 7am. We stopped at Koh Tao on the way through - it looked so beautiful, it's a shame we couldn't get anywhere to stay there. It took about 5 hours all up to get to Koh Phangan so we got there around midday. It appears our bags weren't tampered with or anything so at least if we were scammed on the price, we didn't have anything pinched. Once we g...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> 4 nights in Bangkok We flew out of Tianjin early in the morning and first flew for 6 hours to Kuala Lumpur with Russ and Heather. The flight was horrible - really bad turbulence in the middle of the flight which left me a wreck, but at least the Air Asia planes are comfortable and roomy. No entertainment but we are used to bringing our own by now. We only had about a 2 hour stop in KL, a...