We spent a few days in Singapore where we stayed at a hostel voted the best in Asia, it was nice but relatively basic. We spent a day looking around the city, checkng out China Town as well as the famous Orchard Road shopping area, there were tons of shopping centres next to each other, mostly designer! We also went on a night safari at the Zoo where you get to go around in the dark, visited Sentosa Island where we went to a dolphin show where there we...

Afer Leaving Thailand we headed down into Malaysia with our first stop being Kuala Lumpur, we spent 3 days here where we went around the city, saw the famous Petronas Towers as well as the sky tower which you could climb to the top of and has fantastic views of the city. We also spent a day at Sunway Lagoon, a waterpark which was nice in the hot weather! We left KL and headed south to a town called Malacca, this is a famous port town in Malaysia, we spent 1...

We arrived in Koh Samui after a short two hour boat trip. We hadnt booked accomodation so when we arrived we got a bus to the biggest beach on the island - Chaweng Beach. We walked along the beach under the hot sun with our heavy bags and asked all the resorts if they had rooms. Most of the rooms said no. We asked quite a few and when we were almost ready to give up, we found some beach bungalows owned by two English guys. They were a reasonable price and we...

We arrived in Koh Tao after a lot of travelling having flown back from Chiang Mai to Bangkok we got a bus from Bangkok to Chumpon and from Chumpon we got a boat to the tiny island of Koh Tao. The bus and bus alone took us 15 hours! We were knackered by the time we got there! Koh Tao is a beautiful small island near Koh Phangnan and Koh Samui off the Eastern side of Thailand. We spent 5 days here and Mark learnt to scuba dive and I went snorkelling. The c...

After the wedding we travelled back to Bangkok by plane and headed to North Thailand via the overnight train. It was quite comfy as they make up beds for you and there is a top and bottom bunk. We were sitting by the door to the toilets so it was quite noisy there all night and we had a disturbed sleep. We arrived in Chiang Mai after 12 hours before 7am. We were taken to the guest house by a driver and introduced to Mr Boo! He explained to us that there ...