Well, we made it to Koh Samui but I have to say, it was a close call! We left the world's worst guesthouse on Friday morning - to our absolute horror they attempted to charge us an extra 400 baht for the privilege of having the extra mattresses in our room. We refused to pay, and demanded to see the manager rather than take it out on the girl on reception who, to her credit, had tried to help us with our assortment of issues. She got very upset and told us the...

Latest Room Count: 1 Caroline, 1 Sarah, 3 Dutch people, 16 cockroaches. Its a busy little place! Yesterday was the famous Full Moon Party on Koh Pha-Ngan's Hat Rin beach. And, true to reputation, it was a very cool night, if a little manic! I have never seen so many people crammed on to one little beach, and by all accounts this was quite a quiet one, as we're in the low season, so I don't even want to imagine what its like in December or January! ...

We're now in Koh Pha-Ngan and getting ready for the infamous Full Moon Party - generally thought of as a pretty crazy night by itself, but we're planning on meeting up with a fair few people we've met along the way, so we've got definitely got high hopes for it! That said, when we arrived in Pha-Ngan yesterday my hopes were pretty much at rock bottom....... We were sad to leave Phi Phi, we'd had a great time there and really loved the place, it was really c...

Yesterday we arrived in the island paradise of Koh Phi, via an extremely long journey from Chiang Mai. It started with the night bus on Monday night, and ended with a ferry on Wednesday morning, and went through Bangkok and Phuket on the way! But its all worth it, Phi Phi is everything you would expect and is fast becoming one of our favourite places..... On our last day in Chiang Mai we went to Sang Bo, the artisan area of town. It involved a tuk tuk dri...

Well, its been a busy few days here in Chiang Mai so I'm afraid I'm just going to have to go right back to where I left off and start from there!! The night before we went off on our trek we went to the night markets. They're very similar to many of the other markets we've been to in Thailand, but they were still very cool. Not quite as near to the hostel as we'd been promised though! Decided not to stay out too late as we wanted to make sure we were on t...