Ao Nang: Undiscovered & untouched Thailand lies in Ao Nang. If I was to revisit, this place would fall first on my list so far. The lonely planet book isn't proving to be as useful for Thailand as is was for the east coast of Australia but without it we were pretty quick to stumble across the cheapest yet accommodation & navigate ourselves around the small town of Ao Nang without any problems. Our first day was spent playing in the waves & baking un...

Koh Phi Phi Don: Overestimations & exceedingly high expectations. Maybe that's where we went wrong. Koh Phi Phi is the place to be for crowds of English faces & buckets of alcohol destined for the beach, but it lacks in daytime atmosphere & is beyond deceiving of the picture postcards it may have once portrayed. We're unsure where our 20Bt island fee disappears to when we stumbled over the litter filled beach, dragging our bags through puddles of se...