yesterday we went to see some beautiful islands. we hired a long tail boat for the day with a driver and visited 4 islands: chicken island, poda island, tub and fra nang islands. they were all beautiful. and all the finger crossin must have done the trick because the weather was gorgeous! hot all day long without even a hint of rain. so we lounged around on the islands and soaked up the sun. a little bit too much perhaps as now i am sunburnt and it hurts! was a r...

we r now in krabi after spendin 2 nights in khao sok natinoal park. khao sok was probably my least favourite part of our trip sp far. don't get me wrong the settin was absolutely beautiful in the jungle surrounded by gorgeous scenary and trees and fresh air. but i wanted to b at home with my mum. and then to top it all off it started to rain! we went to a big lake that was in the national park. i was kinda expectin a reservoir type thing and it was more like so...

well, have a bit of time today before we leave bangkok for good for the khao sok national park by yet another overnight train. so thought i'd write a bit about what we have seen so far. bangkok is absolutely massive and incredibly busy. there is a little street that we walk up from our hotel to khao san road and it is just crammed with street stalls. everythin u can tihnk of but mainly clothes and food. everythin is soooo cheap too. the food stalls cooke just ab...

well, i don't really know where to start! we have had a busy week! we are back in bangkok for tonight but we have done our jungle trek in chiang mai. we met our group, who were totally ace. couldn't have got a better bumch of ppl. there was adam and carly (england), nick and lee ann (england), amber (oz) and beth (canada). on friday night we borded the overnight train. it was weird, the seats kinda folded down and it magically turned into a set of bunk beds! alt...

we have had a busy couple of days! yesterday was brilliant. we managed to do and see such a lot in one day. we were up at 6am for breakfast and then got picked up from our hotel at 7am. is was very early for us!! first of all we headed to kanchanaburi province to a world war 2 cemetary. During the war thousands and thousands of prisoners of war were forced to build a railway from Burma to Thailand in 1942 by the Japanese. At the time this was really dangerous b...