The night before I was to arrive in Ko Phi Phi I stayed in the VERY small town of Krabi when I was meeting Amelia (closest uni friend) in the morning. The town was so small and everything shut really early but managed to amuse ourselves with eating street stall food and playing the card game s*** head! To my surprise, an everyone in the surrounding bungalows, Meals arrived at 6am and I can say I've never been so glad to see her!! Was so amazing that she'd just ro...

Our accomodation was pre-booked in Chiang mai when the three of us had arranged that we'd be staying together and when we arrived in the north of Ko Phagnan in our resort we realised we'd booked a PALACE!! It was absolute luxury compared to mmy accomodation in Ko Tao so it made a nice change to the bed bugs and cockraoches that i'd shared my room with there. We later found out we really weren't paying that much more than people staying down near the beach that t...

I arrived in Ko Tao after a trip from Bangkok I'd rather forget. I'd not slept the whole way from Bangkok to Chumphon as I was sat next to a rather overpoweringly smelly Thai man, so I figured I could sleep on the boat ride across to the island. I thought wrong. You know it's going to be bad when they hand out sick bags before the boat has even left the harbour. I thought i'd be fine "Pahhh sea sick....yeah I don't get that," OH HOW WRONG I WAS! Yup I s...

So I headed to Bangkok on the overnight train from Chiang Mai, I originally only planned on being here 2 days maximum but with all the drama going on over the government protests in both of Bangkok's airports, everyone was grounded here and couldn't get out! So because I had no set plans I stayed around to be with Vicki, Thais, Bruno, Jen, Dave, Jay, Camby and Emily who'd I'd be on the trip with and we had fun causing havok round Bangkok including Patpong night m...

Man was I busy in Chiang mai.........after departing from the tour group (which was a little sad) it was time for me to depart on my own and face the world on my own this time. So I asked our extremely helpful tour leader if she could reccomend one thing that I HAD to do in Chiang mai, she told me about a volunteer programme she was involved with in the national park which involved taking care of rescue elephants at a nature park. You've probably all seen the pic...