When we eventually arrived in Koh Phangnan after a long bus and boat ride we were rewarded straight away by meeting up with about 15 friends from Sheffield who are also travelling at the moment. We checked into their bungalows and headed straight to the absolutely packed out beach. You were literally towel to towel with your next door neighbour but I'm guessing this is just because the famous Full Moon party was taking place in a couple of days. We spent the next...

So we eventually made it onto the second bus that was to take us to Hue. On we got, all of us sat on bags of rice (!) and amongst various members of the Vietnamese population. Initially I thought that I was lucky as I was sat next to a young woman who force-fed me what tasted like gherkins dipped in vinegar for the duration of the journey. However, whenever the bus stopped I came to realise that this act of kindess was actually so that I would look after her baby...

(Sorry ran out of space there) ...to change our plans and get the sleeper train to Bangkok and then do the islands before the full moon party on July 9th and then go straight to Vietnam and Cambodia afterwards. It would be a bit of a faff with getting out of Thailand and into Vietnam before our respective visas ran out but it was pretty much the only option avaialble. However, when we got back to the rat-infested hostel some girls that we had met on the bus from...

Crossing the border into Thailand from Malaysia was absolutely fine and pretty much as soon as we arrived in Hat Yai we were able to get straight on a bus to Krabi. We arrived in Krabi to be sherparded straight off to someone's "mates" guest house which our good old bible The Lonely Planet had warned us against but it all worked out ok in the end. We spent 2 days in beautiful Krabi soaking up the sun on the pretty much deserted beaches and then got the ...

There seems to have been some sort of mix up with the last blog so this part is supposed to go before the previous one written from Kuala Lumpur. Very annoying so here we go again... We had a great final week in Australia which we spent in Cairns, mainly relaxing around the lagoon and catching up with people that we'd met up the East Coast. One day we went on a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef- we got a free introductory scuba dive included with our trip but i...