We thought that seeing as we were so close to Koh Tao from Phangan, we'd hop over there to do some diving. So did the remaining 5,000 people on the full moon island. We got the early ferry (by this they mean pick you up at 7.30am and don't depart the pier till 11), and managed to get ourselves into a great diving school -'The Simple Life'. This package included 4 nights free accommodation. Our instructor Warren was from Ireland and ironically, studied computer sc...

Arriving in Koh Phangan 4 days before hand we thought we'd have no problem finding accommodation, and 10,000 other people thought the same. After a long search we eventually found somewhere. Although we were paying well over the odds for our aluminous pink room, it was OK.This place was a refreshing chance from Phuket. The town was full of boutique clothing stores and restaurants showing movies all day long. It was also full of backpackers coming for the party. T...

We stayed in a resort called Kata in Phuket. The guest we had was lovely with really friendly people, who were quite willing to make us breakfast at 2 in the afternoon - we got a discount on the room because it had no windows, hence not waking up till mid-afternoon! The beach here was really nice. A little stingy when you went in the sea. We later found out that these were sea lice biting us. A short walk down the road and we were in Karon, another resort in Phuk...

Took a long boat ride over to the island of Ko Lanta. As soon as we stepped off the boat, we were bombarded by 20 odd thai's trying to take us to their hotel. This still didnt stop while we were eating lunch by the pier. Our plan was to get a taxi and have a look for accommodation, however, there were no taxis so we had to go to with one of the hotels. We were taken to a nice hotel on the beach front with a swimming pool (sounds nicer than it actually was). We f...

On our last day in Krabi, we decided to visit the Phi Phi Islands. The cattlevan, or 'bus' as they like to call it, picked us up from our guest house and headed to Ao Nang where we got on a speedboat. Having been sunburnt the day before, we weren't too pleased when the only two seats left were on the front of the boat with no cover from the sun. Our first stop was monkey bay. Ironically, this hand Monkeys lining the bay. The next few islands were pretty much th...