PinangWe arrived in the evening and got dropped of on a pretty dodgey looking road. In the lonely planet book it says to avoid a road called Love Lane, we looked across the road and saw that the road opposite was called Love Lane, hmmm nice. On the minibus down we chatted to a guy who owns a dive company back in Thailand and he reccomended a place called banana house so we searched along the road a little but and found it, booked a room and headed out for some di...

Ko LantaThis is going to be a real short blog because we only stayed for the night. We got back to Phi Phi Don at about 10:30am and had our ferry to Ko Lanta booked for 11:30. We pretty much had some food and left on the 1.5 hour trip to Lanta. We arrived to a rickity old wooden pier in the baking sun with no idea where to stay or where to go. Me and sarah had different ferry tickets to the other 3 (Dan, Rach and Gem) so our first challenge was to try and find th...

Ko Phi Phi Ley We headed down to the pier with our guide who seemed a little crazy but a good laugh. We met up with the rest of the group who we would be spending the night with on the beach and all seemed like a nice bunch of people. We waited for about 15 mins while the boat was on its way over to pick us up. During this time the tour guides decided to throw themselves off the pier to cool down. Was pretty funny and it got a few of the group to do the same. W...

Ko Phi Phi Don After catching another early we started our journey to Krabi where we would catch the ferry across to Ko Phi Phi. It was a pretty easy ride, we all slept for most of it. We arrived and got dropped off at yet another tourist office and as usual got swamped by people trying to sell us tickets and taxi rides. We knew the score now and told them all no no no, grabbed our map and started walking towards the ferry port where we planned to just buy it di...

Khao Sok (National Park) We arrived in Surat Thani at 4:30 am and as soon as we got of the boat we were mobbed by people offering taxi's there there and everywhere. We thought about getting a public bus but found that the bus station didnt open untill a few more hours and we really didnt want to wait around that long so we once again we had to submit to one of the people offering rides. We knew we were going to pay more than we neded to but this time we actu...