I left Chiang Mai at 8:30pm and arrived at the boarded at 2am where we stayed in a guest house for the rest of the night. We were up early the next morning and taken to the boarder to collect our visas $35. We crossed from Thailand to Laos on a long boat and boarded another boat which would take us to Luang Prabang. We had to purchase a cushion for the journey as i had to sit on the floor for two days. I meet lots of people on the boat as we were all stuck on the...

I left Lauren in Bangkok to catch her flight while i travelled up to Chiang Mai. I had about five days to spend there before heading to Laos. I stayed in a small guest house called Kavil which was recommend by the couple we met in Khao Sok. The following day i was up very early to attend a Thai cooking school, we were taken to the market first. We were then driven out to a farm where the cooking school was based, it was a pretty setting. The school grow all ...

We were up early for our 7am bus to Khoa Sok which arrived there at 3pm. We stayed at the Tree top guest house looking out on the river, which was really nice as they were like tree houses. That evening Lauren and i relaxed with another massage and dinner by the river. The next morning Lauren and i completed two walks in the National park to view the waterfalls. In the afternoon we went tubbing down Khoa Sok river with to student doctors from England (i'm the...

After leaving Phi Phi at 2pm we didn't arrive in Ko Lanta until 9pm where we got dumped in a car park. The driver refused to take us to our guest house as he wanted us all to go to his friends guest house. As it was getting later and later and we were in the middle of no where we all decided to stay at the guest house. We meet four German students on the bus so we shared rooms with them along with the cockroaches. First thing the next day we all moved to our orig...

Lauren arrived in Bangkok in the early hours carrying 3 bags, i couldn't believe how much stuff she has collected in 5 months. The following day was spent shopping (not that Lauren could possible need anything else) eating and having massages until it was time to get the night bus to Phi Phi. After a 16 hour bus and boat trip we finally arrived to bright sun shine and found our guest house. The rest of the day was spent relaxing on the beach and exploring the isl...