Krabi town when we arrived was a sleepy place, a ten minute walk put us anywhere in the town we wanted to be. Set in the south west of Thailand, Krabi had been the obvious choice for a launch point from which we could reach the Indian ocean islands. An overnight stop in the town was sufficient for us to have experienced the nothingness, so the next day we took a bus then boat to reach the island of ‘Ko Phi Phi’. An Island made famous for two reasons, one of...

August 19th 2009, package received and operation culture shock was under way. Your forgiven for thinking that you are reading ‘Mission Impossible’, that would be because you are! We had returned to Thailand from Cambodia and gotten back to Bangkok, a day after we had arrived we were back at the airport once again. This time we weren’t leaving, we were collecting! Yes that’s right we had a visitor coming to see us for three whole weeks, who you may ask? W...

The days that had passed while we were ill meant we had overstayed our expected time in Chiang Mai, but had also found out about the Sunday market we wanted to see, but meant waiting a few more days. In a bid to kill time until then we did some research on a place called 'Tiger Kingdom'. Tiger Kingdom is advertised everywhere in Chiang Mai and for the reason that you are actually allowed in the enclosures with them. We had been suspicious of the treatment of the ...

The overnight bus had been pretty quiet with most people sleeping, or at least attempting to sleep. On arrival at Chiang Mai we had a short wait for our mini bus transfer to the main area of town before setting off in search of some decent accommodation, which took us one hour to find and by which time with the heat and heavy bags we were more than ready for a shower and swim in the pool. A day later we had an idea of what we wanted to do in Chiang Mai but had ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten your seat belts as we are about to enter Asia. First stop Bangkok Thailand, home of the lady boy and pesky tuk tuk drivers. The flight to Bangkok from the U.S. was interesting to say the least, firstly as the check in staff had boarded the plane just before take off in order to get us to sign immigration forms that stated we would cover costs for being deported if we weren't allowed into Thailand! Now as this was a result of them neg...