Today we decide to do our own sight seeing, so we hire a ped and get a map to start exploring the rest of the island we start at the big Buddah which is a enormous statue of Buddah which can be seen most places on the island, there are bells you can hot with sticks which Elliot really enjoys and then we are blessed by a monk who gives us each a bracket to bring us good luck! Next we ride for about 20 km with my amazing map skills and find the mummified monk! Whic...

Today we are up ridiculously early to go on a boat trip, we are picked up by the bus we takes us to the 'pier' which doesn't actually exist and we have to walk thought the water and climb on to the boat, standard thailand. Then we are fed some dry toast and were off, first stop is a tiny island where we jump of to go snorkelling, there are sooo many fish and you can snorkel through the caves too one person in the group even deciding to feed the fish near us which...

Today we spend the whole day at the pool drinking and watching everyone else slowly get drinker the hotel pool are lovely 3 different ones, one for the parties, one quiet one and another one just for guests with glass sides and a waterfall, we eat at the hotel and later start to explore the bars of Samui, we go to one which has a live bingo and sax man who are both amazing and later we go in search of more designer bargains, we've booked a trip for tomorrow and s...

So a quick ferry across the water we arrive at koh Samui, very happy to see this island has a McDonald's, Burger King and fake nandos! We check in to the hotel which we booked a while ago and so is more expensive and a lot nicer than what were used to. The hotel is called ark bar and is quite famous for it's daily pool parties and beach parties, we dump are stuff and go exploring. It is very English, very touristy with lots of bars and shops but we are right on t...