As it was our 10th wedding anniversary we decided to treat ourselves to a more expensive room for three nights and chose to go to Ko Lanta which is in the south of Thailand on the west coast. We caught a flight with Air Asia from Bangkok to Krabi - we got a very good price for the flights and only cost slightly more than the 12 hour bus journey would have. We had one night in Krabi in a very cheap room that was like a sauna and smelt of bin. The following day w...

We left Don Khon in the four thousand islands, and headed back to Pakse. We were going to have one final night in Laos but decided as we had a long journey back to Bangkok we would break it up a bit by heading to Ubon Ratchathani - the biggest city in the East of Thailand and only an hour away from the Laos border. At Pakse we only had a short wait for a bus and I thought I would nip to the loo where I had a bit of an unfortunate incident. Squat toilets are fine ...

We set ourselves up for a six hour journey to Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai - we couldn't understand how the journey was going to take so long as it looked so close on the map - so we got bus tickets for the Green bus which was a really lovely air con bus with a hostess that handed out food, water and wet wipes! We arrived in Chiang Rai after 3 hours - our stupid lonely planet again had the wrong info in it!! Chiang Rai was a lot smaller than Mai - the bus station wa...

It took about 5 hours to get to Chiang Mai on the bus from Sukothai, we arrived after a very heavy downfall and the bus station was pretty flooded. We had prebooked a room at Junior guesthouse and they offered free pick up, the couple that run the guesthouse were so lovely and were interested in our travels and when they showed us our room they said welcome home! It was a really nice room in the old part of the city. We had been to Chiang Mai on our last trip an...

We set off early from Ayuthaya to our next stop Sukothai, annoyingly the main bus station was a few kms out of town so we had to get a tuk tuk down a busy dual carriageway - we were just looking at the traffic behind us when a dog ran into the road and got hit by a car in the lane next to us - it was so upsetting and theres no way it could have survived :-( We got to the bus station and found out there wasn't another bus for 2 and a half hours so we had to just ...