Our final destination in Thailand was Phuket. Our plan for the last week or so in Thailand wasn't to spend it on the touristy beaches of the province as they tend to be overpriced and a poor reflection of Phuket's character. Instead we stayed in Phuket town itself and made a few day trips elsewhere. Unfortunately. our last week in Thailand has turned out to be the wettest despite September supposedly being the end of the monsoon season. We didn't mind it at firs...

What an incredible province Krabbi is, we've seen some amazing sights during our stay here and a great way to start the last section of our time in Thailand. We departed Koh Samui by bus and took a ferry back across to the mainland before quite an arduous bus journey through Surat Thani to Krabbi. We met a couple of English girls doing the same trip as us so we at least had a bit of company on the way. They were doing a similar trip to us so it was good to swap s...

After being particularly sad to leave Koh Phangan we arrived in Koh Samui knowing it was going to be a lot more modern than the last two islands. It is far bigger than both Tao and Phangan and in fact, almost too much to explore in the time we'd be spending there. Therefore we narrowed our stay down between two of the most popular areas on the island, Chaweng and Lamai and stayed in both of them while we were on the island. On the boat over to the island we met ...

After a lot of physical activity in the north of the country we left Chiang Mai for the south and specifically the islands in the gulf for some sun-soaked relaxation. We decided on Koh Tao to start with as we wanted to visit all three before moving back to the mainland. Koh Tao is primarily a diving island and as neither myself or Dan really had a desire to go diving (only snorkelling) we only stayed a few days due to limited accommodation. However, we did stay l...

We are now in the most northern part of Thailand that we will visit, Chiang Mai. Most of the stay has involved trekking in the jungles surrounding the city. As soon as we arrived we were briefed by our trekking guide, Jackie on what we'd be doing throughout the three days of trekking in the jungles. We did the trekking with 7 other people, one person from Amersham and the rest either French or Dutch but we all got along really well! The first day we started ear...