16/10 - Mission: Get off Ko Phangan We gladly left the Same Same guesthouse in a hope that we never actually see it again! It is at this point that we are all very hot, fed up and warm out! As we arrive on Ko Tao we have a few specifications that we want...a NICE room with 3 single beds, a swimming pool, a seperate shower/curtain and clean...don't ask for much then! By pot luck Sarah saw a picture in a window, so we head for the Asia Diver's Resort, and if by ma...

11/10 - Traveling to Ko Phangan...bus, bus, boat, taxi... So, I've come to learn a few things about Thailand (and SE Asia), not everything is what they say...100bhat can be bartered down, 10mins is longer etc so when they say 7am pick-up and they still aren't thre by 7.30 you don't panic...just wait! My bus dropped me at Krabi mini-boat station where I swapped tickets and stickers (this is how they identify you). Here to my delight I met Harris, a guy I'd random...

So, as promised to MUm, I vivsted the island that her school brought a fishing boat for after the Tsunami. The boats to and from the island had only started running the previous week, so as I'm sure you can imagine things were very slow. I stayed in an amazing family-run resort right on the beach in a small hut for a mere 150bhat (2pounds) a night...needless to say you didn't get much for you money. This also was the first time that I'd actually been on my own pr...

So after an over-night bus down to Krabi, I hopped on long-tail round to Railey. Off one boat and on to another to get me round to Ton Sai, only reachable by long-tail, a massive and dangerous trek over rocks, or waiting for the tide to go out then wading round. Here I met two crazy Irish girls who have since become my latest travel buddies I possibly should have question my 200bhat hut acvcommodation, but I was too impress with the cheap price! Electriciy only b...

My first solo trip!!!! So after and early start at the bus station and a 3hr journey north west I arrived at Kanchanaburi (close to the Burmese boarder), an area where lots of POW were brought by the Japanese to build railways. Found a place to stay and off I went to see tigers - a rescue centre for abandoned tigers run by monks. Failing to pick up a map as I went in I used my initiative and slyly followed some Austrian guys…it wasn't until I found myself in t...