Today was our last full day on Koh Phi-Phi! We've been here for 3 nights already and enjoyed our time. Yet again, Koh Phi-Phi is so different from the other islands we have stayed on. As you can walk from one side of the island to the other, there are no cars or motorbikes. A 'taxi service' consists of a Thai guy putting your luggage in a giant wheelbarrow type thing and shouting 'Phi Phi' as his horn. Koh Phi-Phi is dominated by westerners so it feels a bit...

A sunny hello from Koh Lanta, Thailand. Our last dive on Koh Tao at Chumphon Pinnacle went well, but unfortunately we didn't see any whale sharks! We saw some absolutely massive giant groupers and some gorgeous coral fish. We were sad to have our last dive with our instructor, Man, he became a good friend. Following Koh Tao, we hopped on a ferry to Koh Phanghan. We stayed on Baan Tai beach on the quieter side of the island for 3 nights. Sadly we misse...

We did it! We've officially got our PADI open water licence. Scuba scuba scuuuuubbbbbbaaaaaaa. After the all clear from the doctor on Wednesday, we were back diving yesterday. We were glad to find out it was still just the two of us and our dive instructor. We had another confinement dive to complete in the shallows where we demonstrated skills such as hovering, fin pivot and taking off our BCD. Steph found taking off her weight belt quite tricky but got the...

Hello from the Thai island Koh Tao, where we've been for a few days now. We left Chiang Mai on Friday to endure a 24 hour journey to get here that consisted of: a tuk-tuk to the airport, aeroplane to Bangkok, taxi for one hour to the train station, sleeper train for 9 hours, minibus to the port, ferry for 3 hours to Koh Tao and finally another tuk-tuk. Planes, trains and automobiles for sure! The sleeper train was a bit of an odd one as it stopped in random p...

Today we had another fantastic day with some wonderful animals - elephants! There's lots of choice in Chiang Mai of elephant sanctuaries to visit. After some advice from Tartare at our guesthouse, we opted to visit Woody's Elephant Home for the day. We made this choice as the elephants are very well looked after there, being washed at least twice a day, fed different foods throughout the day and are free to roam together without any harnesses on at any time. ...