The magical land of Pai is a place I have been looking forward to going for ages. It sounded like just my kind of place. Its actually alot like Phi Phi (which is the other place I got stuck!). Pai is at the north of Thailand, and is abit of a b**** to get to, so there aren't that many people, although this is constantly changing as Pai has such a fab reputation among travellers. Its a real hippy town and home to alot of Hippy Ferangs, who come here and never lea...

Made my way up to Chiang Mai, in the north of Thailand to do 3 days and 2 nights of trekking. Decided to start my trek the morning I arrived, so was pretty shattered. I had planned to do a South trek as I was going to Pai after anyway, but then had signed me up for the northern one. I met Rachel, Erin and Joel (American) and Matt (German) whilst waiting for the bus, and they were doing the north trek, so I stuck with that. Ended up being a pretty good decision!! ...

Hey there - back in Bangkok to meet up with the Smellie Fox and Dave, and then got a very pleasant suprised to hear from Chris Ward that he was flying into Bangkok Monday morning. It all went downhill from then! We were on a bucket flavoured mission (Dave wanted one before we'd even eaten!). Oh my god - the whole night was hilarious. It was wicked to see El's, - lots of card drinking games. We were later joined by Tom and Lisa (or Stacey as I decide for not parti...

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...