After a flight from Panang to Medan and a bus from Medan that after numours break downs only just managed to get over the top of the crater we got to Lake Toba, our first proper stop in Indonesia. Lake Toba is actually a super volcano that has long been extinct but in the massive crater a lake has formed. In the lake is an island called Samosir and on the island is another lake! The main island is vast, only a little smaller than Singapore. Head hunters used to l...

Panang was the island we had to get to to get the flight to medan. We didn't allow much time for it, just two days, but we ended up wishing we could have stayed longer. After just coming from Thailand it was refreshing going somewhere people took an interest in us not our money! Malaysia was much more developed than we thought it would be and the people were the friendliest we'd met. The food was really good to, stalls would only do one dish that may have been ha...

Ko Pha-ngan, a lot more chilled than we thought it would be, staying in some rustic and cheap beach huts. The people who come here have been for years and say there's no where like it. Its called laid back bungalows and it's on the sunset beach. So far we've rented a scooter to see the island, done some fishing, broke a rod, fixed a rod, saw two sharks whilst in a very small boat (apparently either black tips or bull sharks!), had some cocktails, watched some su...

So we're here! After an 18 hour journey, four meals, five films and too much red wine we actually made it to Bangkok. Not much to report, had a massage, had a lot of good food and got a lift in a tuk tuk that we never thought we'd survive. Will write again when we get to koh phagnan.