One of the major cities of the world, bangkok is not normally a restful place. However, the day i arrived the UK government advised against all non essential travel to the city. The red shirts were in town! I had seen the red shirt protests on TV while in Laos and Cambodia. However, I didn't know what they were protesting about! When I got there I decided to find out. Some research online explained a bit more. The protesters were complaining at the increasingly d...

Chiang Mai and Pai! When people from the west settle in Thailand they normally end up living in Chiang Mai! Dispite being a fairly major city it still keeps a small town feel and you can still imagine the armies of elephants that were there 1000 years ago! It has everything you could want from a city! In fact, its very easy to get fat in Chiang Mai! They do every sort of food imaginable! And you can learn to cook too! Which I did too! Its really hard to say wh...

Full Moon Party - Koh Phangan! The full moon party is a huge party that happens every month when there's a full moon! People from all over the world descend on this one island in Southern Thaialnd and have a huge party on the beach! On new years eve this year (co-incidently a full moon) they had 50,000-80,000 people! We went on March 1st and they had a mere 30,000! Still plenty of people for a huge party tho! We got really lucky! As it turns out there were lot...

Ton Sai! Ton Sai is the name of a bay in the Krabi area! Its one of the best places for rock climbing in the world!? The bay is surrounded by beautiful limestone cliffs that came up 100m or so all around the bay! All day (and even some of the night) you can see people clinging to the rocks! I satyed in Krabi for 2 almost weeks I like it so much! In the day you can go climbing or hit one of the 4 beaches that are in walking distance! One of which is callled Ra...