Koh Chang was to be our second beach but first tropical island and we were excited! Even more so as the island is the spiritual home of Richard "Dickhead" Symes! We had been well schooled on what to do and where to go so on arrival there was no question that we were heading straight to Lonely Beach, the backpackers base on the island and a party paradise. Thudding music, dancing tourists, fire dancing locals and endless tattoo parlours greeted us. A 100 bah...

Lucky for us the lovely ladies at BAP set us up with their cousin across the river in Thai Chang Kong. We spent a day by the pool and caught the evening bus to Chang Mai. 6 hours later we were dropped of randomly in the centre of Chang Mai and an hour later we had a hostel. What to do in Chang Mai, a world of opportunity - elephants or tigers, snakes or monkeys, ping pong or paintball, quad bikes or quaint hill tribe trekking the options were endless! So we umm'...