It was a long night on the train up to Bangkok from Ao Nang - all the sleeper cabins were sold out so we had to make do with seats :-/ We eventually arrived in the early morning on Monday 27 August. After a bit of wandering around the station area looking for transport, we managed to catch a local bus to the area that we stayed in previously and quickly found a simple guest house for the night. By that time we were starving, so we headed off to Rambuttri road f...

We arrived in the seaside town of Ao Nang late in the rainy afternoon of Thursday 23 August. We dumped our stuff in our room, grabbed some umbrellas and walked down the road/river to a cool litle Italian place for a delicious pizza meal. The rain didn't look like it was going to pass any time soon, so we headed back to our room where we had coffee and treats and basically just vegged out for the rest of the evening. We had decided to treat ourselves to a slight...

Our ferry pulled up to the Ko Phi Phi pier just before midday on Tuesday 21 August, whereupon we were immediately swept ashore by the wave of other tourists and day-trippers. Once things had calmed down, we found a small little local place to eat and then went in search of somewhere to stay. After quite a bit of walking around, we found a simple little bungalow, where we dumped our things and then headed straight to the nearby beach. Towards the evening it sta...

Our train out of Bangkok was delayed :-/ so we had a few hours to wait until we finally got underway on Friday 17 August. For this trip we had decided to go with non-aircon sleepers, as the previous trip we had almost frozen to death. Also, we had the added bonus of being able to pull the windows all the way down and enjoy the warm, fresh air blowing through the cabin. After a while a man came to make up the beds where we read for a while before settling down ...

Neither of us slept well that night. The beds on the train were plenty big enough and comfortable, but it was a bit noisier than Monique was expecting, and Kevin kept expecting the driver to slam on brakes (as he was prone to do randomly) and roll off the top bunk in the night. Finally morning came on Saturday 30 June and Kevin clambered downstairs and together we watched the countryside roll past as the sun rose - lots of lush, green jungle and rice paddy's do...