(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 ...