We intended to spend a few days in Koh Samui, however, due to really bad weather expected to carry on for the following few days we thought it better to hop over to Koh Phi Phi on the west side where the better weather was. We also found the Chaweng area where we were staying a little too commercialised and no longer felt that we were staying on an exotic Thai island. The very next morning we left Samui and later that day after many boat and bus journeys arrived ...

The impression I had of Koh Phangan was that I would hate it. I thought it would be way too touristy and I would want to leave as soon as possible. I was wrong. I loved Koh Phangan. It may be due to the fact that we had really nice accommodation throughout our stay there. We ended up getting a bit confused about where to stay on arrival and wandering the streets in the heat of the day looking for somewhere reasonably priced. Luckilly a passer by offered us a rom ...

We were so desperate to get to the Thai islands that we travelled 26 hours in order to do so. From Siem Reap we took a taxi to the border, we then crossed the border and got on a bus to Bangkok. As soon as we arrived we booked ourselves onto the night bus down to the ferry port. From the ferry port we took the morning boat accross to Koh Tao. It was worth it! We were exhausted but got to spend the whole day sleeping on the beach. It is so beautiful in Koh Tao. Fo...

After stopping back in Phnom Pehn for a night we took the 7 hour journey to Siem Reap. As soon as we got off the bus we were mobbed by touts all trying to get us to go to their guesthouses. There must have been about 20 of them and they needed a good shouting at to get them to back off. We actually ended up staying in a really nice guesthouse. We managed to get the room down from $10 to $5. The main attraction in Siem Reap is the Angkor Temples. We arranged our t...

From Phnom Pehn we took a bus to Sihanoukville, a beach resort along the south coast of Cambodia. We were looking forward to some timeout on the beach. Unfortunately as we arrived the blue skies clouded over. It didn't stop us hitting the beach though! Sihanoukville was not quite what I expected. It was very busy and not as picturesque as I'd hoped it would be. This could be because the weather was not great. We still managed a couple of days subathing despite th...