So we arrive at koh phangan and are litterally squeezed into a taxi of 10 others vaguely going the same way as us, it is only 100 baht (£2) so we don't complain, but when we are dropped off the driver tells us we have to walk the rest as the car can't go down the road, he tells us it is a 2 minute walk.... It was not. So we are walking around with 4 rucksacks in 35 degree heat for about 20 minutes before we actually find it but the hotel itself, Friendly Resort,...

Last few days in ko Tao we hired a moped and went to explore there's told the island, it really is tiny! We went right to the top to find the whale skeleton which to be homestead kind of disappointing, just a pretty big skeleton on a table, no one else around, didn't really look well kept, so the fact that the journey back was only 10 minutes made it slightly better. We also went to find the reservoir which is advertising on the map, now this was quite far as it ...

So 4 hectic, intense and emotional days later we are finally ssi trained scuba divers! The course was hard but so amazing we swam with a turtle, a stingray and hundreds of beautiful colourful fish! There was a lot of classroom time, an exam and loads of skills test along the way but we went to some amazing dive sites including shark island! Which actually gets it's name because the island it's self looks like a shark (apparently) and not because there are sharks ...

We are up at 5 to catch the bus and ferry to ko Tao, looking forward to some chill out time after a hectic few days in bangkok! I'm so tired I sleep nearly the whole 8 hour journey! And when we arrive we go straight to the hotel! We have booked a 4 day scuba course here which most people visiting the island are also doing! We go to check it out and are asked if we want to start straight away. There's a lot of classroom stuff to get through, videos to watch and we...

We get up ridiculously early to go to the floating market, which we didn't realise was so far away, nearly 2 hours! When we get there we walk around first then get a in a boat along the river to reach the other stalls, most are selling the same things, small souvenirs, spices and lots of tiger balm! Each stall owner had a long hook to pull the boat towards them so they can try and sell you their products, a very strange but cool experience we end up buying a coco...