Hello, We arrived in Beijing after an uneventful flight, we tried to get a taxi to our hostel, which was a challenge considering no one speaks English or understands us!!!! We queued at the taxi rank and the driver looked baffled another came to help and he worked it out but ripped us off big time!!! We were so angry but he oh it's all part of the experience I guess. It won't happen again though!! We arrived at lunch time and decided to walk to the Olympic cent...

Hi, We arrived in Chiang Mai to a nice hotel, not very backpackery at all quite late. So the next day we were up at off to book our day with the elephants only to be told they were full and we could only go Saturday which is the day we were leaving. Very disappointed. Also I had been bitten in Phuket while we were waiting to leave and my leg had swollen up and was very painful. After a bit of indecision we decided to change our flight to Bangkok and book our da...

Hi everyone, Sorry it's been a while we have been too busy sunning ourselves. We arrived on Koh Phi Phi fine after a rather bumpy boat trip, we turned up with no where to sleep so off we set to find a bed for the night and ended up next to an Irish bar that didn't close til 2am! It's was noisy as once the bar closed the clean up began as did the DIY. Twice I got woken up by someone banging nails in and using an angle grinder at 4am!!! Luckily we didn't have any...

Hi everyone, Sorry it's been a while we have been too busy sunning ourselves. We arrived on Koh Phi Phi fine after a rather bumpy boat trip, we turned up with no where to sleep so off we set to find a bed for the night and ended up next to an Irish bar that didn't close til 2am! It's was noisy as once the bar closed the clean up began as did the DIY. Twice I got woken up by someone banging nails in and using an angle grinder at 4am!!! Luckily we didn't have any...

Hi all, we flew to Koh Samui from Bangkok it was quite a small plane but an ok flight except the flight attendent obviously didnt think so as she vom'ed when we landed!!!! Nice. We checked into our hostel which was not quite as glam as our previous hotel but we survived and had a few chilled out days on the beautiful beach before heading to Koh Tao. We got the boat over (the only option bar a long swim) to Bans a dive centre with a good reputation and a free tax...