Our last island to visit was Koh Pangan - The home of the Full moon party. We were really expecting a mad house full of drunk backpackers but instead we found this island to be the most relaxing of them all. The island was almost like a ghost town. Im assuming it's the time of year we came!The beaches are beautiful, some modernisation but I think it is still very remote. With no airport and you can get really cheap beach front bungalows intended for hammock hangi...

We caught a 3 hour ferry over to Ko tao. It is a small island that sits on a ledge of coral reefs with crystal clear water which makes it a famous place to dive and snorkel. The diving courses here are also amazingly cheap. We got picked up from the ferry by a man, we sat on the back of his ute and went to buddha view diving. With our diving course we were given 4 nights accommodation free. Of course it wasnt very nice and we had to pay if we wanted it cleaned. B...

To get to these islands we had to catch a ferry from Surat thani. Our first stop was koh Samui. This is one of the original islands that started the backpacker migration to Thailand and is now an all-purpose beach resort. Samui has a great variety of beaches but we picked chaweng beach to stay at. Its a 6km long white sand beach and is considered the centre of everything! Our first night in Samui we heard the news of the malaysian earthquake and Samui was current...

We flew into thailand so that upon arrival we would receive a 1 month visa to explore the country rather than a 2 week visa if entering by land. Flying into Phuket was so beautiful. All we could see was White sand, blue water and green hills. phuket is the largest island in thailand but is so big it dosent feel like an island at all. It took us 45minutes drive from the airport to our guest house in Patong beach. We had a private room here which was nice but there...

After 6 nights in Kuala Lumpur we caught the bus to Penang which is north Malaysia. My friend Lina from Hamilton Island came too. In Penang we also stayed at a Reggae hostel which is owned by the same guy as Reggae mansion KL. Our first day in Penang we hired a car and drove around the island stopping at a small fishing village for lunch also at a huge fruit farm and a damn. We drove to a snake temple which was nice but displayed beside the temple were real snak...