we arrived in phuket after a 3 hour minibus ride. This involved clining on 4 dear life as the driver went at about 100 miles per hour. We got talking to the people on the bus a very nice americn guy from israli two german girls and a very mad Italian guy. We arrived in phuket town about 10pm and shared a taxi with the italian 2 the youth hostel which was about 5 miles away. The next day we spent in phuket town walking about and had a nice slice of chocolate cake....

we arrived here after a very long 13 hour bus and boat ride to a torrential downpour it was definatley monsoon season. we arrived at our hotel which was a very nice bungalow by the beach (the only thing no western toilet). We spent the next 2 days soaking wet as the island was having such bad weather. We had the biggest thunderstorm on the last night and woke up 2 fiend that th whole iland was flooded. People were walking around in water up 2 their stomachs. We t...

went to kanchanaburi yesterday got a taxi straight to the bus station so didnt get lost this time, and after another 2 and a bit hour bus journey we arrived. hired our own personal ricshaw driver called chi and he took as around the sights for 4 hours. saw the bridge over the river kwai and the only original part of the track left, went to the war cemetaries had luch on a floating resturant next to the bridge ad after a very long walk up a hill visited a monastar...

after a short sky train trip and a very long walk after getting lost many times we made it 2 the bus station. then after a 2 hour bus journey we made it to the old ancient capital. we went around the old ruins where on the way out were asked if we wanted to buy a hammock and a elephant, and saw a giant budda. we behaved like the sterotypical brits that we are and spent a couple of hours walking around in the mid day sun. got chased by a scary dog and finnaly arri...

After surviving a faulty quantas place no aircon for a while, we finally arrived in thailand very tired and very hot. we r now in Bangkok and it is crazy. The people, the noise and the traffic especially the traffic, everytime u cross the road u run the risk of being killed. We went to the grand palace today and another temple which were both amazing, after getting extremely lost round most of Bangkok. The only thing was that they did not have western toilets and...