Heya Everyone,

I saw your message about the end of the Break gay gay (they are a band which my good friend Jamo is part of for those who don't know), its a sad day, no more dirty slap base lines for us to enjoy, booooooooooo.

Anyway back to me hehe :) Since the last message I wrote, I have become a qualified advanced diver, whoop whoop. We did a night dive on our last night in Ko Tao which was awesome, I thought that I lost everyone underwater at one point, in the pitch black emptiness that is the sea at night and I think I may have soiled myself ever so slightly :) it turned out that my group were just above me though.........phew, massive sigh of relief.

I nearly swam straight into a big ass Baracuda aswell, I definitely would have come off worse out of that one, it was a biggen.

I had to do a James Bond entry into the water for the dives that day which is where you basically do a flip into the water and land on your tank (back). This was partly due to the fact that it is far more fun than doing a giant stride into the ocean (immature Pete) and partly because my feet are torn to shreds after an encounter with a certain lady in the ocean at the Full Moon party. Needless to say the location for this encounter was not chosen wisely as my feet are now in pieces..............my bad :)

Our last night out in Ko Tao was good, Hannes came out with us as well, mainly because he was trying to get into Hellana's pants........very funny sequence of events since returning to Ko Tao. It was a good last night in Ko Tao though, we stayed local to Buddha view and just had a few drinks with the instructors etc.

Myself Sahmik Mr Dave and Hellana left for the port early the next morning to start our long trip back to Bangkok before all going to Vang Vieng, yes I am back in Vang Vieng everyone. I had a tough decision to make as I only had a potential 3 days to go to Vietnam, which I would have spent visiting Halong Bay, however I felt that 3 days in Vietnam really wouldn't do it justice so I decided to head to Vang Vieng with my little crew as I knew that I would have a great time with them. Vietnam will just have to be saved for my next adventure. However in my period of indecisiveness I managed to miss out on the morning flight to Udon Thani with the guys and subsequently had to catch an afternoon flight. Everyone waited for me in boring Udon Thani though which I am very grateful for, before catching a minibus to the Laos border and on to Vang Vieng.

We had a great days tubing yesterday, flying off all of the swings again, I loved it. Shamik took some awesome photos but unfortunately managed to loose his camera in the dirty rat piss river, which I reckon could be on a par if not worse than the Thames which caused me to be pretty ill with a contagious disease before I left on my travels (open water swimming). The loss of the camera was a shame, as there were some great pics on there, but what can you do.

I somehow managed to avoid getting the numerous cuts on my feet infected, however Shamik had a wound on his arm from his little biking crash in Ko Phangan which did get infected so there will be no tubing for us today, we are all just going to chill out for the day before all heading off on the long journey back to Bangkok tomorrow. At present I think that we are all heading to Bangkok via minibus and then catching the night train, however Hellana might be heading to Barley instead of Cambodia, she is just craving the beach which is fair enough. There is still a possibility that she might be joining me in Cambodia which will be cool, but either way I am sure I will have a great time. The guys will be heading to Kanchanaburi from Bangkok, so we will all be heading off in our separate directions, which will be sad.

Anyway, I think that is all from me for now, I will write to you all from Cambodia, I hope it is as good as everyone says.

Lots of love, Pete x