8/12/09Got up early to catch the speedboat which left at 09:30. It took just over an hour to get to Koh Lipe and boy was it worth it, this place is stunningly beautiful, it's definietly got the 'wow factor'. I've never seen a sea like it before, the Thai's call this island the 'Maldives of Thailand' and you can definitely see why, the sea is crystal clear, green, blue and turquoise with white sand beaches, absolutely perfect! There isn't a pier on the island so w...

29/11/09Brought a bus ticket to Ko Lanta this morning as we're moving on again. The bus and ferry took about 2.5hrs from Krabi to the island. Ko Lanta is much bigger than Koh Payam and a lot more developed so first impression was that it looked busy with loads of shops e.t.c. and quite a lot of tourists knocking about. The further south we went though the more chilled out it became. We'd booked a bungalow for 300B when we got the bus ticket so when the bus droppe...

27/11/09We're on the move again, heading to Krabi to see what's about. We had to catch a bus to Takua Pa again and change buses to Krabi. We bought our ticket to Krabi and had something to eat while we waited. After a while the woman who sold us the ticket said that the bus was gonna be late but we couls catch a smaller bus (like PMT but not as we know it!) to another station and then get a coach from there to Krabi. We decided to do it so we didn't have to hang ...

We packed up and got a lift to the main road in Khao Sok where the buses drop off and pick up, we'd decided to head down towards Krabi but when we got to the bus stop Vlad (the Czech guy from the jungle trip) was there and he mentioned that him and his girlfriend were going diving off Khao Lak and that it was the same bus we were gonna catch only we wouldn't have to change buses at Takua Pa. Simon had been to Khao Lak with Ade but it was still recovering from th...

22/11/09Off to Khao Sok! Caught the bus from Ranong to Takua Pa at 09:30, 2 hours later we cought the connecting bus to take us to Khao Sok. Arrived and found some nice bungalows near the entrance to the park called 'Palm View'. Our 'bungalow in the jungle-o' cost 250B (approx £5) so was cheap enough and really nice, lovely family own it so so far so good! When we checked in we were shown some tour options so we could decide what we wanted to do, we chose a 2 da...