Now this was something I had really, really been looking forward too. Phang Nga bay, or James Bond Island as they call it in Thailand. My start wasn't too early, so already that made for a more relaxing day. I was picked up and driven out to the Phang Nga province, away from Phuket, where I boarded yet another speedboat that was moored in a canal, which looked a bit dodgy. It was a much smaller group, thankfully, and there were no Russians in my group. Ag...

Super early start this morning for my trip out to the Similan Islands. I got into another speedboat and was taken about 100 miles off the coast of Phuket. At about the half way point it started to rain and then the rain turned into a storm. It was very rough and everyone was getting soaked. People cried, screamed and some even threw up over the side. Where was I, I hear you ask? I was on the very back of the boat near the engines, with Manowar playing thr...

I thought I would go and check out some of the other beaches today, so I paid a tuk tuk driver 600 baht to take me down to Kata beach. It was quite a long way in the back of a ute. I arrived at Kata beach which was much less crowded than Patong and stayed there swimming and sun baking for about two hours. The beach had fine white sand and there was a small island just off shore. If I had someone with me to watch my stuff, or if I hadn't brought so much stuff...

I didn't really do much of anything today, I hung around the hotel and had a huge sleep in until around 11am. My day didn't really start until 4pm when I caught the hotel courtesy bus, (I say bus, but it's really a ute with seats in the back), down to the Patong. I walked around and had a look in all the shops not buying anything and frustrating the hasslers as I walked up and down, confusing them as to why I wasn't interested in buying twenty DVD's. I had M...

Long drive today to Khao Sok national park for adventure activities. Our first stop was a temple called MonkeyCave, which had little Mackak monkeys playing around the outside of the cave. Inside the cave there was a stupa and a reclining Buddha. You could also go right to the back of the cave to the dark part of the temple to see the cave formations which actually reminded me a bit of Janolean Caves in the Blue Mountains. We left the monkey cave and moved...