The main tourist road in bankok is call Koh San road. Altho on being a few hundred meters long, the amount that has been packed int such a small place is amasing. Firstly there s the market which lasts from around 9am(im guessing as we were never actually up at this time untill the early hours. Then there are the clubs, bars and reastaurants of which there are tonnes, there's also the odd guest house thrown in just for good measure and to take up any avalable sp...

After Pukett we were on our way to koh phanang, the second lagest of the islads on the south easten end thailand, and also home to the largest full moon party! On our arival the island seemed a very relaxed place especialy away from the main town. Thankfully our hostel,coconut beach, was on the very north of the island. It pretty much had a private beach and about 50m out to sea there was a completly unspoilt corral reef! On the beach there were hamocks strung ...

One of the reasons i needed to get my thai visa so badly was that our first week in thailand was at a hotel that Matt's parents had booked in advance for us. This was great as we didnt need to book anywhere when we got to phukett, and also it was a 5 STAR resort!!!!! The place was amasing, there is no other word for it. As we arived a porter took our bags, and wisked them away on a trolley, We had necklaces made of flower draped round our necks and given some fre...

The Town of butterworth is used for one thing and one only and that is transport. This meant that obviously we wanted to stay there rather than the lovely city of george town, which is only a 20min ferry ride away. But we made our decision and so on the night of our arrival we stayed there, because the cost may have been the equivalent of 20p cheeper or something. We got booked into the only hotel in the city, and went to explore, we came back after 20mins (it wa...

Our first port of call in malaysia was the city of mallaka. This is a small city we used as a stop off place on our way up to kuala lumpur. Whle we were there we stayed in a very good hostel, which had the benifit of having an open air roof garden with a terrace, which was very good for relaxing on. mallaka as a city does not have that many attractions, as we had been led to beleive by all the posters advertising it as the tourism capital of malaysia. While we w...