Day 36 packing up the backpack again, today we headed off across Thailand to the Eastern coast, the Gulf of Thailand and onto home of the full moon party, the island of Koh Phagnan! Our day involved hopping on a longtail boat for 20 minutes, then driving halfway in a minivan, then stopping at a random roadside type of travel agent/thai cafe for an hour an a half which had a rooster running around inside, and a bunch of backpackers trying to get across Thailand t...

Day 34 2nd day in Railay, and we awoke to yet more rain, oh dear! Luckily later on in the day it started to clear so we headed to west beach and swam a bit and watched the sunset, west railay is known for its sunsets however due to the rain it wasnt as spectacular as we had hoped but still made for a good view and a few beers later all looked pretty anyway! Headed back to our resort and enjoyed a yummy braai. Day 35 Last day in Railay and raining again, oh man...

Day 31 Leaving Koh Phi Phi and saying farewell to THE BEACH we boarded our boat to Koh Lanta, another Thai island but a great deal larger than small Phi Phi! Arriving at the Pier we didnt have any accomodation booked but I spotted a guy with a board showing some cool accomodation and flagged him down, luckily they had a bungalow available for one night so we took it! Arriving at Lanta Castaway resort we checked into a cute wooden bungalow amidst manicured g...

Day 28 Hello Phuket! Well that was an excited start to a very let down day! We arrived into Phuket town early in the morning to find that Phuket town is nowhere near the beach and to be honest quite a dump! Our cheap accomodation was exactly that - a room with a bed and oh no view as the window was covered by a billboard - lovely! And it rained the whole day, so not much to report apart from us catching up on sleep from the overnight bus, and waking up to dust o...

Day 26 Bangkok Yes Bangkok again, but it is handy to use it as our base between going North and South! So we arrived at Bangkok bus station at 4.30 in the morning and hopped in a taxi to just off Koh San Road where we were staying. Well walking up Koh San Road at that time in the morning we did see some sight, amongst them passed out Westerners and the lady boys of the night parading up and down, not quite Koh San Road at its best! Amazingly our hotel allowed us...