Once we had finished the dive course we stayed one more nigh on Sarie beach then the next day headed to the south of the island to a place called paradise beach. We had managed to contact Beverly from the transfer who had discovered some bungalows overlooking the sea. So we got her to hold on for us and made our way. The beach was amazing as it was right at the end of the strip and quiet - almost like having your own beach! The bungalows had an amazing view of t...

We flew down from Chaing Mai to Phucket over night. We'd booked the flight in a bit of a hurry before travelling and had booked our diving course in Koh Tao with little research. So this meant we had one day to get from Phucket to Koh Tao, not clever! Although from what we saw of Phucket we were glad that we weren't staying there any longer. It was really claustrophobic and built up, and there was a seedy atmosphere to the place to say the least, especially at ...

After the trek we were both exhausted so spent our next day in Chaing Mai recovering and getting some rest! We did venture to the local bar, which was named 'Thai One On' - hilarious... The bar had a great big Rottweiler which would parade around the pub and surrounding roads and bark until any other dog left its territory, quite entertaining. We spent a day venturing around the many temples in the old quarter of Chaing Mai. It's a really spiritual place whi...

The night bus to Chaing Mai from Bangkok was a pretty grim experience. The bus was old and dingy, and it was really difficult to sleep. When we arrived to the bus stop in Bangkok everyone was handed a note to say that valuables shouldn't be kept in your bigger luggage due to the liklihood of someone working on the bus going through your stuff while you sleep. Sure enough when we got off someone had gone through both of our bags. There was nothing for them to take...

We flew from Siem Reap to Bangkok on the smallest plane I have ever seen. It must have seated around 40 people. The propellers did not help my fear of flying, and I squeezed Mike's hand until it was blue most of the way. We had planned to go straight from Bangkok to Ayutthaya when we arrived, but after finding out it was going to be far more complicated than one train we decided to stay for a couple of nights then move north. We stayed just off of Khao San ...