UM PRANG 8TH-12TH NOVEMBER 2006 On the 8th of November we missioned it from Sukhothai to Um Prang. To do this we caught a cramped from Sukhothai to Mae Sot, which took about 3 hours. Then at Mae Sot we got a Sawngthaew, which is an open sided and backed government run truck, south 164km to Um Prang which took about 5 hours. This stretch of road use to be called the death highway because of the guerrilla activity in the area, but today lives are mainly lost throu...

CENTRAL THAILAND 6TH-8TH NOVEMBER 2006 To get from Kanchanaburi to Um Prang we made two over night stops, one in Ayuthaya, and one in Sukhothai. On the 6th we left Kanchanaburi by local bus, changing at Suphanburi, and arriving at Ayuthaya roughly 5 hours later. Ayuthaya is back east and is only 86km north of Bangkok. It is one of Thailands ancient capitals and people come visiting mainly for the ruins scattered around the area. Once we arrived and booked onto...

KANCHANABURI 31ST OCTOBER-6TH NOVEMBER 2006Early start on the 31st, we had to leave our accomidation at 6.15am, walk about 30 moinutes to catch a 2B ferry over the river then try to find the Thonburi, Bangkok, train station, which was a bit of a nightmare because everyone kept telling us to go in a different direction which isn't pleasent with a backpack on and a train to make. We finally found it and caught the 7.45 to Kanchanaburi 100B. We could of caught t...

BANGKOK2 29TH-31ST OCTOBER 2006We travelled from Ko Chang to Bangkok in about 6 hours which was pretty straight forward. As soon as you get of that bus the hustle and bustle of Bangkok hit you, especially after spending time on a peaceful beach, its not nice but got to be done!After putting our bags down we took our passports to a local travel booking place so they could get our Laos visa's for us. Its really good actually, because it saves us paying a taxi t...

KO CHANG2 24TH-29TH OCTOBER 2006As much as we both be-grudge paying the 400B National park entrance fee's, there are two big waterfalls either side of the island inside the national park that we thought would be nice to go to. On the 24th we hired another mo-ped nd set off round the island to check them out. The mo-peds on this island are so knackered and all of the manual gear ones back-fire about every 20 seconds or so. Its funny when you're driving thr...