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...