I woke up and waited until sara got to koh phi phi and to find a place to stay. Daniel had planned to go to the beach so left before me. She messaged me at around 13:30 to tell me where she was staying, a place called "the rock backpackers". I asked the man at reception where it was and he said it was only three minutes away which is good as it's so easy to get lost around koh phi phi as there's no structure to the roads and they all look the same. Before i left ...

It was a very cold night on the sleeper bus as the air con was very powerful and i was woken up by a tap on my head by the man on the bus so everyone rubbed their eyes and waddled off the bus and into a small service station/tourist info place in the middle of nowhere. We weren't told what was going on, just asked which island we were going to and directed to different tables. Here i had a nap by resting my head on my bag that was on the table and we waited and w...

The alarm woke us up at 06:15 and i dragged myself out of bed, still half asleep and packed together my bits and bobs as we have to check out at 11:00am. Daniel got up after me and i reminded him that hr should pack his bag but then he said he would pay the 150baht extra for another half day in the room, so i could have had a few extra minutes sleep! We sat outside our hotel at 07:00 to wait to get picked up for our day trip and soon enough a thai man came asking...

I woke up after a very comfortable nights sleep with the soft breeze of the air conditioning keeping me cool. I had a shower and got my dirty laundry together to find a place where i can have it cleaned at a decent price. When we left the hotel we were immediately hit with the heavy heat and humidity of Bangkok. We hadn't experienced this heat for a while as it was reasonably cool in Hanoi. We walked up the road keeping an eye out for signs for laundry but didn't...

We were relieved to learn that we had hot water in our room which is a treat really! We were woken up by all the other backpackers boarding the mini bus to the border, the drivers were shouting about passport photos and prices for the visa into Laos. I was determined to sleep through the racket though, as i really needed a bit of a lay in after our arrival at 2:35 the night before. We ended up sleeping till around 09:00 when we slowly began to get ready, get ou...