KANCHANABURI After an incredibly silent taxi journey to Thonburi station (Bangkok taxi drivers are suprisingly un-animated!) we bought our tickets for the 1.55pm standard to Kanchanaburi. The only trains to Kanchanaburi are the regular 'thai style' 3rd class which are just flat seats in a carriage with lots of ants and no airconditioning. The 3 hour journey was actually quite nice, staring out into strange little thai towns and paddy fields everywhere with t...

Hiya, So we are in Bangkok. I guess i will start from the begining. Last week we left Koh Tao by ferry and headed to Chumphon-a city about the size of Colac situated about 500km south of bangkok-to catch our night train to BK. We got the faster ferry from Koh Tao. So good! They had Mr Bean on the telly's for the whole hour and a half that it took us to get back to the main land. It was fairly choppy and rainy that day and we felt fine the whole way. so this...

Well hello, So i guess you are probably itching to find out what happens next our epic journey. Well i'm afraid to say not that much really. So we left Pha Ngan on the saturday and headed for koh Tao, thailand's diving mecca pretty much. This places issues the second largest amount of PADI certificates in the world after cairns. what a nice piece of trivia for you all. So incase you don't remember we had just been with Marcus and his mates in Hat Rin. Well they d...

Our ferry pulled into the Thong Sala dock at about 6pm in the rain. Rather than risking gettting caught in the rain, unable to find a taxi-boat, we decided to stay in Thong Sala for the night and head to Haad Kuad (Bottle Beach) the next morning. This idea proved slightly harder than first expected though, as basically everything in Thong Sala was closed. We finally found a shoddy little basic hotel where we got cable tv AND aircon for 350Baht! Bargain! We grabb...

Well.... After several slightly unamazing days in KL, we were happy to be leaving for a new destination. We were heading to Koh PHa Ngan in Thailand, one of the Islands that makes up the Samui archipeligo.The first leg of this trip was a train from KL Sentral station to Butterworth, near Penang, in Northern Malaysia. We had decided to slightly splurge for our first train trip, so we had a 1st class deluxe sleeper cabin all to ourselves. Only about $20 more anywa...