Day 157 - 159: after a few hectic days in Bangkok and that long train we took a few days in Chang mai to just chill. We spent our time walking around the city, eating good food and window shopping at the night market. We also hired a tuk tuk one afternoon to take us up to the phi ping palace and flower gardens where the king resides when he visits northern Thailand. We also visited the wat phrathat doi suthep temple on the way back down. We also took some time to...

Day 152: today we flew to Bangkok. Tatiana and Lino gave us a lift to the airport. Hopefully one day we will be able to repay them for there generosity! We arrived in Bangkok by late evening and by the time we arrived at our hostel we were ready for bed! Day 153: today we got our bearings and just explores the surroundings and took the sky train into the main shopping district of Bangkok and we spent most of the afternoon in a huge shopping centre, with over 500...

Day 148: today we had a 10 hour bus journey up to Cairnes, however we were lucky to make it as a cyclone had caused wide spread flooding throughout north Queensland. Apparently we were the last bus to make it through. Day 149 - 150: the next few days were uneventful as the cyclone meant our diving and snorkelling tour out to the great barrier reef was cancelled and as it rained the whole time we were there there was no point in going to the beach. So we spent tw...

Day 145 - 146: we arrived in air lie beach about 9:30 but didn't get a chance to stop and relax after our long bus journey as we were jumping straight onto a sailing boat for our 2 day tour around the whitsundays. We just had the chnace to jump in the lagoon and wash off before before heading down to the Marina and joining our sailing boat the Boomerang. Over the next two days we sailed around the beautiful whitsundays stopping to snorkel along coral reefs that m...

Day 142: an early start today, we were up at 6 and ready to leave our hostel for 7 and heading to the ferry to take us over to Fraser island. Once over on Fraser island we drove along the beach in a convoy of 8 4x4s, we were in the guides car so didn't get to do any driving, but we will later in the trip. Along the way we spotted a pack of wild dingos. Before we stopped for lunch we did a bit of off roaring through the rainforest, then we made a pinic lunch withi...