We failed to have the early start for our days travel today, so we got the 12 pm ferry/coach combo ticket to Surat Thani. It had seemed pretty windy from the view of our beach hut and this translated into a choppy boat ride. As soon as we got off the coach we were whisked off to a travel agent to book our ticket to Hat Yai. I had thought we would be able to get a night bus to Kuala Lumpur from there, but obviously the border wouldn't have been open so we were a...

Tzachi, the Dutch boy in our dorm, had tried to take cash out but his card wasn't working so I agreed to lend him some money if he transferred it to me, but it isn't as easy transferring from a Dutch account to an English one! It took quite a while but I managed to find out the codes I needed. We decided to leave the hostel today so that we could stay in a beach hut. It was a very sweaty walk, but we found an alright one for 150 baht each. In the evening...

Apparently beaches on the West coast of the Island are the nicest, so after hiring mopeds again, we set off in search for our perfect sunbathing spot. The first place we stopped had really nice views, but unfortunately was a private beach for the beach hut residents. As we were walking back to where we parked, I heard a 'hello'- it had come from a bird in a cage! He also said 'Sawatdee Kah' (Hello in Thai) and laughed but didn't say 'hello Alice' like she was p...

I spent the morning being quite productive; researching the various activities we want to do in each country and booking our train from Brisbane to Cairns. Feeling restless, I woke Alice up at 2. We headed out for breakfast with the girls next door to us, but it took about 2 hours for all of our dishes to come! It didn't seem like they were cooking in a very logical way; Marianne and Linn both had pasta but their plates came out a long time between each other,...

Interested in the Dutch boy in our dormitories plan of going on a day tour round the island, featuring an elephant tour, visit to the Chinese temple, and going to a waterfall, we flicked through a couple of leaflets over breakfast. However Scott, the guy who runs the hostel, said he normally recommended doing it ourselves, by hiring mopeds for the day, which also meant we could spend as long or as little time as we wanted at each place. So we bit the bullet and...