After eventually departing Ko Samui we were hoping for a drier spell of weather for the New Year. We set sail for Ko Phangan at 10.30am on the 29th in anticipation of the New Years Eve full moon party. On arrival in Haad Rin we were greeted with the usual and expected tourist chaos that has come accustom to many of Thailand's islands. We wandered down the streets plagued with westerner's mopeds and sales men, until we arrived at the sunrise resort, smack bang on ...

After departing Bangkok by overnight train we were finally on our last leg of the trip to Ko Samui, or so we thought. Once we awoke the next morning fresh from finally sleeping we were told that in the middle of the night the train engine had caught fire and we had suffered a 5 hour delay. So once we did finally get to Surat we caught our connecting bus/ferry to Ko Samui. On arrival a day early for our luxury jungle bungalow we took the cheap option in Chewang ce...

Day 1 We have finally arrived in Chiang Mai, its been a long wait with all the troubles in Bangkok but it has been well worth it and that shows as I have not been providing you all with a day by day update on our travels. So I thought I would do it all in one as were now back in Bangkok awaiting our train to Surat. On arrival in Chiang Mai we jumped straight in a tuk tuk and headed for Th Tha Phae Road where we sought accommodation, the guest house we found...

Finally we left Bangkok a little later than planned as we could not drag our ass's out of bed but eventually we made it to the train station a little after 9. We set off on the 2 hour journey up to Ayutthaya which is the former royal capital of Thailand. We decided to spend the day here as we were catching the overnight train to Chiang Mai and did not really fancy another day in the capital. As we disembarked the train the first thing we noticed was the immense a...

As we arrived in Bangkok, weary eyed from our overnight train from Surat, we left the train station and jumped straight in a Thailand's famous tuk tuk's. We made our way to the heavily commercialisedKhaosan road where we found a bed with 4 walls, an area known for its suit sellers and tuk tuk con artists who hail you from every gap possible, and the endless rows of shops with priceless items in between bars that blare out the latest chart music. Over the next thr...