We began our epic journey on 11/12/06, we got on our 2 hour boat trip to Krabi on the mainland the plan being to then get on a coach to Hat Yai, (Hat Yai is a large city with apparently a large train station with loads of trains to Cameron Highlands), then at Hat Yai get a sleeper train to Ipoh by the Cameron Highlands. Getting on the bus was fine, there was a Thai guy with a board saying Lee on it who took us to our 'bus'. It wasn't a bus it was a la...

Arriving in Koh Phi Phi it seemed like it was just another island however after spending the day here it has grown on me. Its obvious that the place was gutted by the tsunami and there is a lot of building work going on but there is a sense of enormous community as everyone pulls it together to rebuild the place. We spoke to our travel agent who said it happened at 10 in the morning with no warning. She was 4 months pregnant and suddenly she saw everyone running...

The day after diving we headed to Haad Rin to the Coco Huts where we'd booked in for the 2nd. After getting there we checked out another plavce and found 'The Princess' at 'Suncliff Resort' which was a dream come true! This gaff consisted of our own air conditioned appartment complete with seperate bathroom and living room plus a sea view on a decked area with a hammkock. It also had a beer fridge which was extemely helpful! All of this for ab...

After the half moon party we chilled out for a bit the following day and generally took it easy, finally we ventured out and grabbed something to eat at the 'Happy Place', awesome homemade cheeseburger, delicious. Afterwards we jumped in the sea and watched the sunset as Coldplay was being blasted out over the speakers. The sunset was amazing; as we're pretty close to the equator it took about 5 minutes to fully set so you could almost see it move and...

After the hussle and bussle of Bangkok it was time for a dose of relaxation so we headed down to the easterly islands of Koh Samui and Koh Panghan which is where the world famous full moon party is held. First we hit Koh Samui for a few days. Mick had already arrived about half an hour before the rest of us after his 16 hour coach and boat journey, thanks to Bomber we only had to endure a 45 minute plane trip! He had found a small group of beach huts called ...