We left Chiang Mai for Laos, still feeling a little under the weather following our food poisoning. We were going to be taken to a new border crossing that would apparently take us 6 hours to reach by minivan. However by the time we had reached the border it had taken us 9 hours. When we reached the border, it was very quiet; the only people making the crossing were us and the two Canadian guys we were travelling with. It was so quiet that when we entered the off...

We got a deluxe coach up to Bangkok when we left Koh Phayam, it was great our driver was dressed like a pilot!! We had loads of leg room, the seats declined right back and we got snacks and drinks provided (although there snacks were shrimp flavoured peanuts and a green cake!) the cake was actually really nice, it was like a swiss roll yum yum. Ben didnt try his as he's a big chicken, although he did change my mind after eating something gruesome which i'll tell...

After our energetic visit to the rain forest, we felt we needed some relaxation and headed to an Island called Koh Phayam on the west coast. We got a coach from Khao Sok national park to a town called Ranong on the mainland were we spent the night before catching ferry the next morning to the island. Our coach was first class, it even had seats missing and some poor sod had a seat that was broken so it was just reclined the whole journey(about 4 hrs), the poor g...

So after our 'interesting' New Year, we decided to head back to Thailand, we booked a minibus to take us to Krabi where we were stopping for the night before heading to Khao Sok Natinal park(the rain forest). After our horrible coach journey into Malaysia with the company of the dreaded cockroaches we really didnt think any of our journeys could get any worse...but we were wrong! Our mini bus picked us up at 8.30am and we were the last two people to get picke...

We left Koh Lipe on the 27th of December, having decided that as we were so far to the South of Thailand, we may as well take the opportunity to cross the border into Malaysia. So having booked a ticket to the capital Kuala Lumpur the mamoth journey began, a total of 21 hours! We firts got a boat back to mainland Thailand and then a car to Hat Yai from where we were catching the overnight bus into Malaysia. We finally boarded the bus at 7 o'clock, by which time ...