I left Krabi at the very unfamiliar time of 530am (i'd started to forget what morning looked like!) Got my complimentary breakfast from the hotel - a tuna sandwhich!!! weird - and got the minibus to Hat-Yai. A fairly boring journey and only(!) 5hrs, so not too bad. Strangely comforted to know that i was heading home. Hat-Yai is a horrible concrete jungle and i'm glad i was passing through. Had a few hours to kill, so went and had lunch in KFC. I then watched a p...

right so, i'm actually updating this about a year later from hmoe. It's the 30th of Dec 2009 and i'm at my folk's place in Carnoustie. I've been meaning to finish this off for ages but the diary that i had with me on my travels has been hiding here and i forgot every time i was in Carnoustie visiting. I realise that no-one will read this online, i dont blame you, but i need to finish it off.......... So, I arrived back to the Niras Hostel in Bangkok after the tr...

We woke up early and had breakfast at the GH in Nang Khong. From there we-got a ride on the back of a pick-up truck, walked to the river, got stamped out of Thailand, got a longtail boat across the Mekong, walked up the hill, queued to get our Laos visas, queued to get stamped in to Laos, waited, got our passports checked again, walked further up the hill, signed up for the slow boat, got on a songthawe (a jeep converted into a kind of minibus) to the far end of ...

My first few days in Bangkok were pretty lazy. I was exhausted after my mammoth train journey and determined to do very little. In this, i succeeded! I walked around a wee bit, basically just walking between my hostel and the infamous Kho San Road to buy Pad Thai from the street vendors (50p for a decent meal!) whenever i was hungry. This caught up on me after a day or so though as i got Bangkok belly and spent a day in bed.I also managed to watch a lot of footba...

Got another overnight train to Chang Mai. Piece of cake, it was only 12hrs! I didnt have anywhere booked so just got a tuk-tuk driver to take me to a Guesthouse and luckily he chose a really nice one. That morning coming off the train was the coldest i had been since New Zealand on the glacier. It must have been as cold as 5C, freezing! Chang Mai is a cool wee town. It has the remains of the old city walls and lots of temples (everywhere in Thailand seems to hav...