Ko Pha-ngan Day 1 (10.06.2012). What a journey.. what a place! We left our trusted hostel at 18:00 on 09.06.2012 and arrived at our new abode "Green Papaya Resort" 24 hours later. The sleeper train was an experience in itself. Sadly the train was late into Surat Thani causing us to be late for our bus to Don Sak Pier and in turn to miss our ferry to Ko Phangan by 5 minutes, meaning we had to wait 4 hours for the next one! After finally catching the ferry at 14:0...

Bangkok Day 6 (09.06.2012): We arose from our last night of sleeping at NapPark, our lovely hostel, and after a long fight to fit everything back into our backpacks, we checked out. Bags stored we caught a taxi to Taling Chan to catch the floating market. The market is on every Saturday and Sunday and is 15km away from Bangkok. Arriving around lunchtime we found a perch and sampled some of the food on offer.. Today felt very cultural.. such a lovely atmosphere an...

Bangkok Day 5 (08.06.2012). Today was our last full day in Bangkok. We really needed a lie in after Thursday's events and left our lovely NapPark at midday day heading for Jim Thompson's house. We were unsure why but every guide book placed this guys house in the top 10 highlights so we felt obliged to see what all the fuss is about. Jim Thompson was an America expat who set up home in Bangkok.. His house has now been transformed into a museum housing a collectio...

Bangkok Day 4 (07.06.2012): Early start today with a taxi to the train station and a long train ride to Ayutthaya - the historical capital of Bangkok. After a rather uncomfortable 2 hour train ride in 3rd class with hard seats and no air-con (but costing only 20 Baht i.e. less than 50p) we finally arrived. We located our transport for the day.. Bicycles!! We then struggled with getting said bicycles on a mini ferry/boat to the island of Ayutthaya. Next began a da...

Bangkok Day 3 (06.06.2012): Today was kinda random. Again it's 1am, up in 6 hours so just going to list what we did. I really want a lazy day now but that means missing things. So tired! First stop today was the National Museum of Bangkok which was huge and lacked aircon but we left with some interesting facts about this great city. The next stop was the Forensic Museum which was very stomach churning.. I wouldn't recommend it and won't describe it! Hours of b...