FINALLY...SOMEWHERE GOOD!!! 25/10/07 - 26/10/07 Cha Guesthouse 250B Our journey to Krabi, in an air con minibus, was the usual final destination/close death experience we seem to have everywhere, much of it in the rain... no change there! We arrived at the bus station, which is around 5km from the town mid-afternoon and took a tuk-tuk to the main street, where we really easily found a guesthouse opposite the post office run by a really nice and helpful guy who...

23/10/07 - 25/10/07 Farang Bar 250B The bus dropped us at 7am around 8km out of town in the pouring rain on I guess the equivalent of the A63. We sat under a bus sheleter for a while as I wasn't even fully awake, while we tried to formulate a plan... oh yeah and work out which way the town was! A lady from a nearby cafe pointed us in the right direction and as the rain wasn't stopping we donned our ponchos and headed out to where we hoped we could catch a sawn...

NIGHTMARE JOURNEY TO CHUMPHON 22/10/07 - 23/10/07 We arrved in Rayong late afternoon, only to discover that despite what Lonely Planet says (it once took us to a bank instead of a consulate!) there are no buses south from here... so we had to head back to Bangkok. We have now realised that unlike at home, where you only really have one choice (and price) for how to travel between locations... there are loads of different companies and you need to ask around fo...

Never talk to strangers... Left Bangkok via the Northern terminal and took an air con bus to Ban Phe... the coastal jump off for Ko Samet and the place we'd been recommended by the US guy we met in Mae Hong Song... The recommendation ws something along the lines of... really beautiful small town, less than half the price o Ko Samet, but the same beautiful beaches as its pretty much sharing the same water. Unfortunately it seems that things have changed. The g...

20/10/07 - 22/10/07 My House 430B Took the around 8hr bus from Mae Hong Song back to Chang Mai, where e planned to go to the train station and get a ticket for the overnight to Bangkok asap, but when w got to the station a girl told us the train was booked up for around a week. So we waited around in the station for a while (much to the disappointment of the harrassing tuk-tuk drivers then took the overnight bus to Bangkok. We decided to stay in the Khao san...