We arrived in Koh Tao and got pushed off the ferry and up the pier, we barged through all the people trying to tell us to stay at their resort and onto the main strip. We walked towards Save Bungalows which Martin had recommended but it was either £6 a night with an outside toilet and shower or £11 a night with an inside toilet and shower. We quickly left telling them it was way to expensive and started walking and asking people where to stay. We finally found ...

We left the guest house Monday evening in a tuk tuk which took us to the train station for our overnight journey back to Bangkok. We dived into the tuk tuk with our rucksacks crammed in beside us! We arrived at the station early and got on and made ourselves at home. We got a second class bed but actually it was quite nice, nicer than the ones in Vietnam we'd been on previously. At first we thought we had a section to ourselves with 4 beds, but after a few stops ...

Today we got picked up along with 12 other people from different locations and taken to a Thai cottage cooking school. When we arrived we got to pick 4 different dishes to cook and then got taken to a local market to get the ingredients. She gave us differing spices, fruit, vegetables and herbs to smell while we watched cockroaches jump in and out of the different jars of stuff and scurry around our feet. So it was right when the ad said we got a true Thai Marke...

This morning we got up grabbed breakfast then were picked up by a mini-bus for the Flight of the Gibbon. It picked up another 7 people after us, then drove for around an hour until we arrived at the centre. They explained to us that a few weeks ago there normal centre was destroyed by a landslide, so we were actually in a school they were borrowing, which also had cliffs around it, this immediately filled us with confidence on the safety of the place. We then got...

Day 4 - Final day in BangkokPoor, poor Graeme. We still couldn't find the bugs for him to try last night. We'd just gone for a really cheap dinner of Thai pak mmm and decided to then go sit in a bar for a pudding and drink. When, all of a sudden loads of Thai people started running around like maniacs - bringing in tables and chairs from restaurants (which made it impossible to get the bill!), bringing in wheeled market stores, and pulling out umbrellas. Suddenly...