Our diving trip was excellent out of Ao Nang and even saw a 2.5m leopard shark lazing around on the sand. It was an awesome sight! On Friday we made the trip over to Koh Lanta and met 2 friends who we had travelled with for a short while in Cambodia. It was actually one of their birthdays yesterday so had a great celebrating that. The last 2 days we have hired motorbikes and explored the beautiful island which has everything from white sandy beaches to a rainfor...

Martin and Louise left on the 2nd January late at night and then Sarah and I headed in the opposite direction on the morning of the 3rd. After a 2 hour boat to Koh Phi Phi, a change and then a 1.5 hour boat to Krabi we arrived in the early afternoon at our hostel in Krabi town. Krabi is a really nice place and it was nice to be somewhere less touristy after 10 days on Phuket. The first day we arrived we got our bearings and had a wonder around town. Luckily for ...

Sorry for not writing a post sooner but with Christmas and all that time has got away from us! Looking back, we arrived in Bangkok on the 21st from Cambodia and stayed at a great hostel called the bed station, by far the nicest hostel we have stayed in so far! We spent our time in Bangkok grabbing a few things we needed in the western shops and sampling all the delicious Thai street food that we had missed! On the afternoon of the 23rd we flew down to Phuket wh...

Today was a very chilled day! We had no plans so decided to do a lap of the city. We stopped at various bars and coffee shops along the way and had a good time exploring the backstreets. We also ended up in a pet shop where Sarah fell in love with a little baby rabbit! We had a wonder around Chiang Mai park which was beautiful and stopped for some food and a beer in the late afternoon. We then both decided that our fee needed a rest so for £4 we each got an hou...

Yesterday we decided that we fancied seeing the pandas at the Chiang Mai zoo. It's one of only a handful of places that you can see them outside of China so it's a pretty rare opportunity. The zoo was great and in a good condition, it just needed a little bit of TLC around the edges and a lick of paint. The panda was very impressive although very sleepy but we were both excited that we had got to see one. Another highlight was that we got to feed the clouded leop...