Today we moved to the busier area of Phuket called Patong beach with gogo bars and lady boys galore. We went on a cruise to Phang-nga and James bond island. We had to get into canoes to explore caves which had amazing scenery. We visited Panak Island, naka island. Panak island was our favorite because after canoe inside to a remote part of the island we came across a family of wild monkeys. We feed them banannas and it was brillant watching them in their natural ...

We had a manic morning trying to find our way to HuaHin so we could get to Phuket. We walked along our equivant of the M25 to get to a tourist information were they had no information anyway but the nice guy took us back to our hotel. We jumped on a local bus to HuaHin and booked our 10 hour over night coach trip. We arrived to Phuket early and checked into the hostel were 'the beach' was filmed. Feel like a hard traveller today as no hot water and havent washed ...

Getting of the bus in Chaam was a bit different. No one seemed to speak any english as we were dropped off in the middle of nowhere and clever as we are we used our point it book to get a taxi to the resort. We found a nice and cheap beach front room and spent some time walking along the beach then went to dinner. The town has its own irish bar (they get everywhere) nice enough place but the whole town seemed like backpackers had never passed through. The locals ...

Landing in Bangkok and getting to the city was an experience so busy but fun too. We arrived on the koshan road and checked into the d&d inn. Great place to stay if you dont stay at the front of the hotel like we did the first night. The buliding site directly opposite started drilling at 630!. We laid awake all night and matt was convienced the hotel had paid the locals to drive up and down on tuc tucs to keep us awake so we would check into one of the more ...