We took the ferry from Koh Phi Phi over to the island of Koh Lanta, a larger island closer to the mainland. We were a bit underwhelmed when we arrived as the island is fairly flat and the beaches are quite busy. We had booked 2 nights accommodation so we decided to make the most of it and spent our first evening sipping cocktails and watching the amazing sunset at a reggae bar. After having a relax on the beach we spent our last night watching some muay Thai boxi...

Amongst other more seedy things Bangkok is known as the city where it is impossible to get bored as there is so much to do and see - so we thought it would be a great place to see in the new year having became a bit 'templed-out' from our previous week of exploring ancient decaying cities. Unfortunately sods law raised its head as we unknowingly coincided our visit with a three day public holiday - meaning pretty much all of the sights we planned to visit were...

There are locations along our journey which have stayed in our memory as we think back over the past two months in Asia. Along with the growing list of great cities like hong kong and Saigon and beautiful towns like Hoi Ann, Luang Prahbang and Kampot we can now add the tiny island of Koh Lipe in the southern most part of Thailand. Having anticipated this island of white sand and palm trees to be a short stopping off point between Phi Phi and Malaysia we were in...

After seeing in the New Year in busy Bangkok we decided to see some of the islands on the west coast of Thailand for some beach time. Though we had originally planned to also see some of the east coast islands we have heard that these are generally full of 'full mooners' and decided to cut them out. There had been a storm on the south coast during the new year and our overnight bus seemed to catch the tail end of it. Even though we had decided to get the most ex...

Happy new year and all the best for 2012! Hope your hangovers aren't too bad xxxx