Am now in the city of Hat Yai, will be taking the train in the morning to Malayasia. I can't believe I've been in Thailand almost two months now, I feel a bit sad to be leaving. Have learnt so much about the thai culture and hsitory, have got used to Thai Time (everything being late), as with any country i visit am practically fluent in Thai, I can cook Thai food, trekked to see the hill tribes, learnt to dive, bummed about on the islands for a few weeks (have a...

I have teamed up with a guy from Holland and a girl from France. After spending two days in Krabi, which was totally desserted, which took a bit of getting used to. You expect on the beaches, but not in a city. We have spent the last two days on Kho Lanta. An Island south from Krabi. It was hit pretty badly by the Tsunami and ferries carrying tourists have only been really going for the last week, as there wasn't any demand for them. Nothing prepared me for the s...

Left Kho Tao on Sunday. Myself, Erik and Elin took a boat to Ko Pan-Ngan. When we go to the pier, Gem, Matt and Carl had come to pick us up as they had hired a Jeep. So we bypassed all the touts and taxis gathering around the new arrivals. (So thanks for that guys!). We all spent the day exploring the Island in the Jeep and Gem, Matt and Carl left that evening for Malayasia. Myself, Erik and Elin spent two days on the west coast before saying our goodbyes. On Tue...

Have been on Kho Tao since Monday. I have spent the week doing my Open Water Diving PADI Qualification. I am now a qualified diver for upto 18 meters. It has been a really good week , the course only had 10 people on it, and we have all got on really well and spent the whole week hanging out, having dinner, laying on the beach, playing in the sea and last night to celebrate us passing we all got totally wrecked and ended up skinny dipping in the Sea at 2 am. Have...

Arrived here yesterday, after travelling on local buses for 5 hours. I had to change buses at one point, and was dropped at a bus station to be told that the bus i wanted had stopped running. The information I'd been given by the Tourist Information Office was out of date. But I jumped on a bus heading south, and when we pulled up into a desserted bus stop another bus pulled up beside us, heading where i wanted to go. With the help of the Thai guy who worked on t...