As previously mentioned, we will no longer be taking 30 hour buses across countries to get to our destinations. The next stop being Chiang Mai, we were delighted to board our Nok Air flight from Udon Thani, a short stress free border crossing (learnt from our previous mistakes in Nam). The first thing we sorted out when we arrived was an action packed day of elephant trekking where I managed to be that annoying tourist by stupidly asking 'is elephant trekking ju...

Soon after new year, we reluctantly left the beautiful islands of the south and made the journey to Bangkok to experience Thai city life. A combination of being unable to count, mixing up our dates, booking things too last minute and not wanting to leave the beach meant that we had exactly 25 hours to explore. We arrived at 5am after a long journey and gave ourselves 4 hours to sleep before heading to Khao San Road - the backpacker district of Banglamphu. We brow...

After the joys of Koh Phangan we boarded yet another boat and set sail for Koh Tao splashing out 30p each ('don't say I don't treat you' we're Luke's exact words) on VIP seats. This basically meant you actually get a seat rather than practically sitting on the laps of dreadlocked Russians who haven't bathed in months and 'entertainment' which consisted of the horrendous movie Real Steel dubbed into Thai....FML. We soon arrived at our beautiful boutique hotel whic...

When people talk about their favourite Thai island and the best places to visit... Ko Phangan always comes up. It's a very pretty island with lots of amazing viewpoints, beaches and more notoriously it's full moon parties (and no the moon isn't so close it's basically on the beach as I had previously thought). So for these reasons we decided to make our longest stay in Thailand on Ko Phangan and spend Christmas there. As we left Ko Samui on a boat packed full o...

After an amazing few weeks exploring the islands off the Andaman Coast of Thailand (and junglegate) we made our way over to the Gulf of Thailand for yet more beach life. Two long tail boats, two minibuses, a ferry, a normal bus and a hitchhike later (sorry mum but she was a sweet old lady so we thought we'd take our chances) and we there. Our hotel was set right on the beachfront of Lamai and we spent many lazy days on the beach watching the rough sea take out to...