We left Koh Phagnan last Monday to head back to Ko Samui. The transfer from the hotel to the ferry terminal was a bit mental when we were put into the back of a pickup truck and the driver proceeded to drive at about 60mph along the dodgy roads. Feeling lucky to have survived the road trip, we caught the ferry which took around half an hour and reached our new hotel in the same resort we had previously stayed in Ko Samui. We loved the hotel we were in as it ha...

On Saturday, we decided to visit Railay beach as beth had read that the beach was really good and the rock formations around the beach were pretty spectacular. To get to the beach, we had to take a local bus to Ao among beach and then catch a longtail boat to Railay beach. After around half an hour waiting at the wrong bus stop, we located the bus to Ao Nong and jumped in the back. Again it's basically a pick up truck with seats in the back. We made it to Ao ...

We left Ko Lanta early on Thursday morning with our taxi picking us up from the hotel for the 5 minute journey to the ferry terminal at about 8 o clock. As we are getting used to in Asia, the driver was determined to fit as many people in his taxi (which was basically a pick up truck with seats in the back) and we reckoned he got 10 in plus luggage. It was a squeeze!! We made it to the ferry terminal and got on the boat pretty easily and left Lanta at 8.30am. ...