The bus picked us up really early this morning and as usual we woke up late and had to rush about. Luckily the bus waited although we did still manage to leave the washing line behind. Managed to sleep on the mini bus ,then even on the ferry (on the floor) and it was a good job too because the next part of our journey was absolute kaos.

In the usual Thai fashion, nobody really seemed to know what was going on or what they were doing.

Once off the ferry we were put on one bus, then ten minutes later told to get off and change. So off come the four of us, our four huge backpacks plus vic and steves extra large suitcase, only to be told to get back on again - something about missing the bus??!!? So on back on we get, bags and all. Now at this point it seems like the driver of our bus is chasing the other bus, but we overtook it so i guess he was just driving like a looney. Ten minutes later we're droped at a bus station and ushered on to another bus (move the bags) and hope its the right one.

Luckily it was the right bus, although we did start to wonder again as we were the only westerners on it. A few hours go by, helped along by the thai teeni pop on the radio and te old women selling bags of fresh fruit and baked things and finally we were droped at a road side.