Phuket Well, I was NOT expecting that. We thought Bangkok was mad but it is not a patch on Patong in Phuket. Arrived early evening. After lugging our rucksacks around we found ourselves a hotel. It was expensive but we were all a bit irritable and wanted our house off our backs. It was so worth it though as it was big, cool & beautiful (not what we are used to in South east Asia). we had a lazy beach day the following day. We even got a sun lounger(wow) P...

So the last few days havent gone as swimmingly as we hoped. Shell and Sarah had money stolen from there rucksacks. We thought someone had taken from our room whilst out but after looking through the CCTV footage we have come to the conclusion that it must have been on the sleeper bus. God knows how these people do it as the bags were underneath the bus with all the luggage and everything was packed back in neater than shell and Sarah had done it. Shell caught t...

We had an 8 hours bus journey to Bangkok to then catch the sleeper bus. Bangkok felt like a completely different place to our previous visit due to the floods. Shops were boarded up and hardly anything open. Fortunately, there didn't appear to be much damage in the centre of Bangkok. After Bangkok we had a 12 hour reclining chair bus journey to Krabi (Thailand) then a 2 hour boat trip onto Ko Phi Phi where we were taking a much needed and well deserved 5 day 'hol...

Where to begin?! After the most exhausting yet exhilarating 3 days of our lives in the jungle we were excited about having a few relaxing days by the B.M.P (backpackers meeting place) pool. Ideally, we would have only stayed in Chiangmai Mai for one or two nights after the Trekk but we had already paid for four. The following night we went into the centre of Chiangmai (Night Bazaar) we walked round the market and looked at beautiful things that we can't afford...

oh my buddah! what a 3 days the trek has been. Every emotion possible was experienced over the last few days. Never in our lives have we mentally and physically pushed ourselves as much as we did. Never had we feared our lives as much as we did. Never had we sweated as much as we did. But most of all, never had we experienced the surreal yet amazing lifestyle and culture of the Karen Tribe. We checked out of hotel at 7.30am to be picked up by Simon (Thai tou...