After a week of relaxation it was time for three days of intensive activities. Arriving at Khao Sok National Park in the evening we ventured down a dark mud path with the aid of a torch to find our hostel. Arriving at the hostel we grabbed some dinner whilst deciding which activities to do. We discovered we could fit in elephant trekking, canoeing on khao Sok river and a night safari all in one day. Meaning we could move on the next day to Krabi. Just as we ...

After a journey that lasted 18hours we arrived on the much awaited island. On the boat over we had agreed to go to see one of the hostels run by a guy on the boat. After seeing it however we decided the area looked dead and the beach was mediocre (for thai beaches) so we decided on plan B to hit Haad Rin - the main packers area. First we had to walk to the main road to try and hail a passing "taxi" - a van with room in the back to carry 8 people. Much to our del...

Next on the trail was Kanchanaburi for which we knew we only had one day to do all our sight seeing as we had a flight to make from Singapore (which we have already put back) and lots still to do after. Arriving at Kanchanaburi the bus driver tells us to get on another bus - feeling there is something wrong we decide to find out where the bus is going after 10mins of speaking to the driver (who doesn't speak english) and talking to some guy on a phone we fin...

It was time for Bangkok but first we had to cross the border this took a little while as the passport control desks to number of passports was very low. When we got in it was a relieve to see a nice air con bus (that we had to wait 2 hours to depart in as they were waiting for more people). Before departure we were entertained by some street kids who didn't like me as i wouldn't give them any free stuff but loved ben as he bought a drink he didn't like and gave i...