We traveled across to Koh Samui on a high speed Catamaran..start as you mean to go on!! Possibly the best boat trip yet, we all lay out on the top deck and fell asleep in the sunshine and arrived at Koh Samui within 2 hours. Once we arrived a taxi took us directly to our hotel, its was one of the most stress free journeys yet, usually we have to ask on numerous occasions whether we are in the right place, where is our stop etc. When we arrived at the hotel we ...

In order to get to Koh Tao we had to take a 7 hour night ferry, none of us had travelled on a night ferry before so we had no idea what to expect. In true Thailand style this night ferry was a large boat with 55 mattresses lined next to each other in two rows with a corridor down the middle, you would have to see it to believe it! Lucky all four of us were next to each other so it wasn't too bad. I thought arriving at 6am was going to be a nightmare but I was imm...

It only took a couple of hours to get across on the boat to Koh Phi Phi a welcome trip given the recent lengthly journeys I had taken. Unfortunately the weather had got even worse (which I did not think was possible) being chucked off of a boat in the pouring rain with no where to stay was not the way we had pictured Phi Phi at all!! Shopping or haggling for somewhere to stay was the last thing we wanted to do but luckily we had met two lads Rob and Chris in Phuc...

I have spent the past three weeks island hopping in the south of Thailand. Five Islands and far too many boat journeys in just 21 days. I would like to be able to rant on about all the cultural experiences I have gained in this time but honestly the islands of Thailand are so popular for tourism now that the culture is fairly westernised and the general objective is towards accommodating backpackers in search of nightlife and cheap alcohol! For example I would sa...

I hadn't planned to go to Malaysia, but having been advised on a number of occasions by other travellers that it was 'unmissable' I managed to find the time to squeeze a quick week in to see what all the fuss was about. I took the overnight sleeper train directly from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur; In my head this was going to be the best journey, I got a bed to sleep in and would wake up at my destination- easy...Mmm not so much, the train moved so much during the j...