Hi Day 14 we had a bit of a lie in as it was a 'free day'. After a chilled out morning, repacking our bags for Malaysia a few of us decided to head in Au Nang. We then decided to get a longtail boat to West Riley beach, which the loney planet gave really good reviews. After bartering with the longboat drivers about how many people they would take, (they said they ewouldn't go until we had 7 people, we were a 6 or we paid the extra fare, so after lots of to-ing...

Hey everyone, On day 12 we left Morning Mist at 10.00am in air-conditioned taxis - luxury! Then it was a 2.5hour drive to Krabi which everyone had been looking forward to for quite a few days! We arrived at the Dawn of Happiness resort and were not dissappointed - the resort was right on the beach! We are sharing a bungalow again in pairs, the accomodation has been much better than expected for a budget holiday. We dumped our bags and went to sit on our beach a...

Hi everyone, We got woken up at 5.30am by "excuse me, good morning!" from the most feminine of male train attendant ever (V you would have loved him!). We had breakfast in a cafe by the train station then got our songthaews (open converted trucks with seats in the back) to Khao Sok. We stayed at the Morning Mist resort, just outside the National Park which was lovely. Each pair of people stayed in their own rustic bungalow with a hammock on the porc...

Hi everyone, Day 8 started early with Tony shouting "Good Morning!" on the train. We arrived at Samsen Station earlier than expected - a 1st for Thailand time! We went back to the same hotel we stayed in before and said goodbye to Tony, who had been a great guide. We then had 4 hours to kill before we could check in so we had breakfast and wandered down Kho San Road yet again! We had a bit of an errands day in Bangkok. In the late afternoon we met...

Hi everyone. The overnight train got us to Chiang Mai at 7.00am and we had just enough time to get changed and showered before Hayley headed off to a Thai cookery school and Rose went shopping. The cookery class was amazing. Our instructor was a young Thai lady called Po. First of all she took us to the local market where we got some ingredients for the day and learnt out some of the Thai food. Then we went to the cooking school. We learnt how to cook, Pad Tha...