Today was the King's Birthday in Thailand which is a massive event and a public holiday but thankfully all transport was still running so our journey continued to the opposite side of Thailand and more beautiful islands! So, we left Railay on another longtail boat (after wading through the water to get to it) and landed on the mainland near Krabi in about 10 minutes and once again had to wade to the shore- this time with the help of the elderly boat man wh...

We came across this article in a backpacker magazine we picked up in Railay a few days ago and this pretty much sums up our life right now..... You Know You're a Backpacker When.... 1 - You confuse Baht with Kip, mistake Rupees for Ringit but still manage to argue the price down. 2 - You can spontaneously decide that tomorrow you'll go to another country. 3- Taking three different types of transportation on a journey is standard - things only get interesting ...

A short flight later from Kuala Lumpur, we landed in Phuket, Thailand. We knew we didn't want to stay in Phuket so arranged to go straight to the Phi Phi islands, which are meant to be beautiful, one of which was the location for the film "The Beach" with Leonardo DiCaprio. So we got to the ferry terminal, tickets in hand and found that we would have a bit of a wait, in total about four hours until our ferry came along. There isn't much to do at Thai ferry term...

Hooray, no early start for a bus/ flight/ train to Kuala Lumpur.... in lieu of this was an 11.30pm overnight bus! Having been told so many times before that our bus was to be a "luxury VIP" bus and it not quite being like that, we were ready to face another delightful bus. Imagine our surprise and happiness (after quite an eventful journey to get to the bus, after forgetting which public bus we were supposed to be getting on when we got off the MRT in Singapore a...

This blog starts as most of the others have.... with ANOTHER very early start- why do we keep doing this to ourselves? (In fact, the answer is simple; it's cheapest to fly at this time of day!). So after leaving our guest house in Kuta at 3.30am and walking to the main street and hailing a taxi, a simple check in at the airport and an uncomplicated flight, we landed in Singapore at about 8.30am. Singapore is probably the most expensive place we have been to yet,...