Thailand

Well i thought since we have been away 6 weeks today i thought i would maybe get around to writing something........finally. So as you can imagine we have done a fair bit since Natalie wrote on here so decided to keep it fairly brief because cant actually remember everything, i suppose that's what all the pictures are for tho. Anyway we arrived at Phi Phi and got and headed towards the Oasis guest house that Loz and Em stayed at when they were there, is was a really handy location but seriously C D Collins could have thrown together better sound proofing in a couple of hours, any slight movement or pneumatic drilling from the builders opposite was fairly horrendous when you were sober and trying to go to sleep, and because we got a bit ill that happened far too much! But anyway i took some Imodium and thought sweet no toilet trip for over an hour, unfortunately when i tried to get to sleep a few hours later it started coming out the other end and was up getting sick for a few hours. But any way the next day felt loads better so spent some time on the beach which was pretty rammed but was quite nice, water bit shitey though so opted to stay under a umbrella and doze or read a book, Natalie was having a paddle then lying down for a bit then moaning she had sand all over here, classic love hate relationship with sand.

So we headed out that night to some joint called Tiger Bar which was pretty good, cheap buckets and few people were steaming already, so looked like a good starting point. I ended up getting chatting to an Irish lad in the toilet Cahall who was away with a few other boys for around Ireland. Ended up having a good night with a load of buckets, some wrestling on the beach then eventually decided to head home. Didnt get up to too much in Phi Phi just a fair bit off chilling out but was different to Railay because loads more young people and lot more going on, especially at night. So after Phi Phi (i think) we headed to Ko Samui which was intended to be a stop off before going to Ko Pagnan for the full moon party, which didn't happen. Arrived at Ko Samui at about 8 at night and went to the quieter but cheaper beach area, supposed to be more for backpackers. So we stayed the night in a beach hut but decided the next day that there wasn't much happening so headed off to the other busier part which i cant remember the name of. So from the time we arrived at Ko Samui until we left which was two days later it poured rain non stop, decided the full moon party would be a wash out and booked flights to Bangkok. We found out later that the Irish boys that were heading to Ko Pagnan for the same full moon had a mint time and it actually stopped raining, ah well maybe next time.

So next stop was Bangkok, the last time we were there we couldn't be arsed with the madness but to be honest we were glad to back to cheap food, drink, and accommodation. In the capital we did a few Wats and the MBK but only stayed for 4 days because was pretty eager to get back to beach life. We had a night out on ko San road when we was there though and met some girls from Rotherham which were sound,good night was had but the hotel we were staying at didn't have windows so didn't wake up till about 3, ah well.

From Bangkok we headed on down to Ko chang, were the mother em and laura stayed together this year. The trip down was a fair mission with the usual promises of no stopping buses air con blah blah, bus stopped bout 6 times, changed at least once and it actually went via Patayya which was pretty annoying, but what do you do. Got to Ko chang any way and headed to Lonely beach instead of the white sands which is more popular but looked a bit package-holiday-ey and we was looking for cheap and cheerful with a bit of night life and that. We aimed to actually do some stuff in Ko Chang since we had been doing loads of chilling but on the second day a bit of a motorcycle accident stopped me doing anything physical, for a change it wasn't because i was messing about the guy couldn't speak English and didn't explain the gears, I'll live though. We went out that night for some food to a place called the tree house which has like a jetty which goes out over the sea, nice food but Natalie couldn't handle the chillies and was pretty much crying for about it for about half an hour, ha ha. So we bumped in to the girls we met in Bangkok a few nights previous, which was random because they didnt plan to go there,and had a few drinks. Had a couple more days on the beach and did an elephant treck, which was cool. The guy got bit snap happy, think he took over thirty pics of us on it but great to do! All in all, really liked it there.

Moving on to the next country..........

Hey everyone,

Eventually set up a site, thought it was about time we kept everyone informed!

So the story so far is.....

Bangkok and Railay

We arrived at Bangkok airport made our way to banglamphu in Bangkok centre near Koh san Road stayed in bangkok for a night and a day looked round a it Wat Po after walking around for 45 minutes thinking we were capable of finding everything oursleves by foot! We werent!! Went to Grand Palace but not actually into the palace as we are being really tight and it cost 300 baht!

After a day walking around bangkok we went for our coach to krabi it left at 6pm and it took about 16 hours to get there it actually wasnt that bad though because it was night time and its much better travelling through the night, although a bit gutted when we found that we were missing 300quid! Think it may have got stolen from our room because forgot that we had left it in one of the bags! Never mind we have forgotten now suppose not a lot we can do!

When we got to Krabi we got a long tail boat to Railay its really nice, was raining for the first day or 2 on and off but at least we had a nice hotel room to stay in food was lovely but bit more expensive, by expensive I mean about 4pound a meal so not really expensive but bangkok is 3pound a meal for 2 people plus a drink!

After the rain had stopped well actually when we thought it had stopped we decided to go kayaking round the caves because its supposed to be really beautiful, however after being in the kayak approximatly 5 mins it started to pour down and the kayaking was not so much fun for Natalie, Rob was loving it saying its more fun! Not so sure myself! But it was good beacuse it stopped and had a better look round!

We arranged to go on a snorkelling trip where we visited 4 Islands, Poda Island, Chicken Island, Tup Island and Phranang. Was really good fun, although rob was eager to get scuba diving as he says its much better!
Went into an underground caves which was really good and we all had the option to jump off the cliff, I straight out said no, rob was wanting to do it, and it was pretty high up, looked good but way to scary for me!

There is a lagoon in Railay which u have to climb up to get to which decided to go there at around half 4 forgetting the sun sets at half 6, a man had told us the night before that it was easy to get to...not entirely true. After climbing up a hill pulling onto a rope with sweat dripping off us we made it to the top only to find some people saying its really hard to get down to the lagoon as you have to use a rope to get down a cliff!!! I wasnt having any of it, as it was dark and i could hear noises and it was scary, rob said it was little insects but it sounded like a cross between a bear and a cow! Needless to say we made our way back down with bats wizzing past our heads, not the best but I suppose it was quite amusing after the event!

We booked a boat for the next day to head to Koh Phi Phi and that was it for Railay now we have to hit the guest houses!.....