We spent a week in Bangkok. Ko Pha-Ngan to Bangkok was 24 hours straight traveling and went something like this: At 10am a Longtail boat from Hat Yao East, the beach where we stayed, to Hat Rin, a town further down the island. Hat Rin to the next town around to catch a ferry, in the back of a ute taxi on Ko PagnYan's only sealed track, a concrete path so much like a rollercoaster we all threw our arms in the air going through the dips. Then a ferry to the mainland, via Ko Samui, and a bus to the train station in Surat Thani. At 7pm we borded our first sleeper train, arriving in Bangkok in the morning, getting a taxi to the Khao San Rd area, and trudging around to find a guesthouse, around 11am.

Hi everyone. Sorry it's taken us so long to post again. It seems like we are moving so fast and it's easy to get behind. We are actually in Chiang Mai at the moment but I'll try and get you a bit more up to date.

We had originally planned to spend two weeks at the most at the beaches in Southern Thailand but we loved it so much and there was so much to see that we stayed for two and a half weeks before dragging ourselves up to Bangkok.

We left Penang for Krabi, Thailand, via a 10 hour mini-bus trip, punctuated only by a 2 hour break in Hat Yai to change buses. We wasted the two hours, and our first fist full of Baht, in a Pizza Hut with a Norwegian couple, whom we met on the bus.