We left our illuminous yellow cell this morning to get some breakfast before our boat ride to Ko Lanta. We had allready booked our hotel (the first time since we left home) as it's Songkran - the Thai New Year - apparently everything gets really booked up fast at this time of year so we didn't take our chances! We settled into our aicon room with a TV and finally a toilet with a flush for less money than what we paying for our cell in Phi Phi. We went straight to...

Had a bit of a lie in this morning before setting off on our trip to 'The Beach'- it's the photo above, but in the movie the gap is blocked off. On the way there we had a quick stop off at monkey bay which has been claimed by loads of monkeys which come down and greet the visitors, we obviously were fortunate enough to see no monkeys whatsoever! We had an hours snorkelling which was great before going to Maya Bay - the location of 'The Beach' film. When gett...

Up nice and early for our dive! Casper the friendly Danish diving instructor took us out. Our first dive was was our 'deep dive' which took us to 30 metres, we did this because its our first step to becoming an advanced diver, and it will allow us to dive to 30 metres from now on when we go dving. Some people suffer from the extra nitrogen in your blood at that depth, it makes you feel woozy and similar to being drunk , but it didn't seem to effect us too much,...

Caught the early morning boat to Koh Phi Phi which got us there about midday. We both were still smug at how a foreign 'ignorant' girl pushed her way through to the front of the queue to get on the longtail boat and then fell flat on her back when getting in, ha! We arrived at the gorgeous harbour of Phi Phi and after finally getting through the herds of hotel touts we dropped our bags at a cafe and Dave went off in search of a hotel. Half an hour later he ret...