I believe by now we may have visited Khao San Rd more than Oxford St and we were not keen on making it home any longer than necessary. An early start saw us join the fairly extensive queue of would be travellers outside the Myanmar Embassy, luckily a relatively painful process we ticked all the boxes and headed back to town to occupy ourselves before a 3pm visa collection. With some local advise we jumped on a rather fun but extremely overcrowded BK river boat an...

A pleasant bike over the tumbling hilltop beach front roads landed us in White Sand Beach, our intention was to get a visa run to BK organised for Myanmar. As luck would have it this was not possible and we left the beach knowing that our island fun was to be cut short by a necessary trip to BK, a Monday flight meant a Thursday departure #devastated. Not to be deterred we ploughed onwards to long beach, a journey of some effort we took the bikes very off-road and...

Koh Chang was to be our second beach but first tropical island and we were excited! Even more so as the island is the spiritual home of Richard "Dickhead" Symes! We had been well schooled on what to do and where to go so on arrival there was no question that we were heading straight to Lonely Beach, the backpackers base on the island and a party paradise. Thudding music, dancing tourists, fire dancing locals and endless tattoo parlours greeted us. A 100 bah...

Lucky for us the lovely ladies at BAP set us up with their cousin across the river in Thai Chang Kong. We spent a day by the pool and caught the evening bus to Chang Mai. 6 hours later we were dropped of randomly in the centre of Chang Mai and an hour later we had a hostel. What to do in Chang Mai, a world of opportunity - elephants or tigers, snakes or monkeys, ping pong or paintball, quad bikes or quaint hill tribe trekking the options were endless! So we umm'...

The Gibbon Experience was easily one of the absolute highlights of our trip and will no doubt remain one regardless of what else we do. The idea is simple you trek into the middle of the jungle, build a treehouse 45 metres up the strongest tallest tree you can find with a breathtaking panoramic view of the surrounding jungle, then you string steel cables (zip-wire) 400-600 metres long from tree to tree all the way back out of the jungle. You then charge tourists ...