Days like this are the reason you travel. You get to experience things that normally people only dream of. You are inspired, amazed, excited and in awe of everything around you. Its like your a child and your experiencing everything for the first time again. Today we spent a whole day with these amazing mammals called elephants. We chose our package carefully making sure the environment that the elephants were in was safe and free. It was a long bumpy ride to the...

The action started right off the bat! We were transported straight to the river for rafting. It was more like brown water rafting because it had rained all night. The guides were not very informative and basically said jump in and when I shout these demands you do it. Me and Kirstie got split up because it was only 5 a raft. The raft was not pumped up very well and when we paddled straight into a rock through lack of instruction it folded in the middle. Luckily I...

Chiangmai - the city of culture and adventure! My first thoughts were that it was a lot bigger and more developed than I had expected. the town was set out in a square surrounded by forests and the river ran through it. We arrived a lot earlier than expected that morning and when we we got to Big & O's guest house eveybody was still asleep. It is a family run house on the south gate of old town. Big - the owner was a really nice helpful guy. He had just ...

Finally a day of smooth sailing :) We caught our plane to Bangkok from Ko Samui airport. This is the coolest airport I have ever seen. It's all outdoors and tropical gardens with the gates in big bamboo huts theres even a small stream running through it. Google images it now and take a look! Arrived in Bangkok around 11:30am got in a pimped out pink taxi to Koh Saan road. Luckily I remembered where the hostel was that I had stayed in twice before so we went the...

Hello Thailand! My second home these days! So because of the change of flight we didn't end up flying into Ko Samui airport like the original plan. Our plane landed in Surat thani around 1.5hrs away. We didn't realise this when we booked the flight haha. So after sorting transport to koh phangan which was a coach, a ferry, a mini bus then a fast boat to the 'full moon'. This is what they kept saying 'full moon yes full moon'. We said yeah koh phangan. They sai...