I am currently in Ko Phi Phi, and have had the most gorgeous day sunbathing on the beach. The beach here is fab and we are going to make a little trip over to the other Island to see Maya beach, which is where they filmed 'The Beach'. All is good - am sharing a big 5 bed room with Clare and Jen and an Ozzy guy Alex - so cheap! Phi Phi is a fab place - there are no cars here at all, and the people are far more chilled out. You just wander around everywhere - eat ...

After a 12 hour bus journey, hours of waiting around, and a four hour boat trip, we arrived in Ko Phangan. Marita and I were staying the north of the island, but in totally different places, so arranged to meet later in town. My trip to Central Cottages was RIDICULOUS! It took over an hour and was the bumpiest road. I arrived and was the only one there I could see, so started to be abit concerned. Then saw 3 guys from the bus - Jamie from Sydney, Victor an Afric...

Today (22nd October 2007) will now be known in my mind forever as THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE! I knew travelling would have its lows, but today I feared for my own safety. Maybe I'm making this day out to be worse than it was, but I don't think I have ever been so scared!! I had booked a bus from Phnom Penh to Bangkok. Its a full days bus journey, so you need to leave at 6am really. There were two buses - one at 6.30am and one at 7.30am. The guy asked if I wanted t...

After leaving Phil, I travelled down to Phnom Penh. It was crazy arriving there as the second you get off the bus you are harrassed by people trying to get you into their tuk tuk. A guy said he knew where the hostel I wanted to was, then drove two seconds around the corner, then asked me where the place was. It turned out we couldn't find it, so had to go somewhere else - it was called Rory's guesthouse, and was full of older English and Australian men with young...

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