Blogs from Ko Tao, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia

I am pretty sad to be leaving Ko Toa to be honest with you, it has been the best island by far and only wished we could have stayed a longer time! We where here for Songkren which is the Thai New Year and it is one massive water fight and celebration all over Thailand, all the Thais are off work for a day of 2 and sdet about early morning soaking cars, moped, babies, grandmas, dogs, and travelers the most, but i think us travelers gave it back pretty good :). People bought water pistoles from 7/11's and filled them up from water buts stationed every 10m's. It was the best day ive had traveling i think every single person was happy and was laughing...all apart from one very grumpy grandma on a scooter that ... read more

Today is the Thai New Year (also known as Songkran), and to celebrate this the Thai people have one big ENORMOUS water fight. Andy and I had read up about this as we knew it fell when we were going to be in Thailand, but nothing could have prepapred us for the huge party going on all day today. The Thai people and the Westerners all have water guns, and bukets and super soakers etc and soak you every time you walk past so we havent been dry since we woke up, and then they also put some talc white stuff on your face whcih burns a little, ... not exactly sure about that, but they areall covered in it! To give you an idea of the extent of the partying .. The Thai police went ... read more

It has clearly been far too long since I last wrote a blog entry: I must have been having too much fun! We spent a very relaxing first few days of our beach holiday in Railay – a very expensive and quiet resort that is still on the mainland but only accessible by boat from Krabi. There wasn’t much to do except rock climb or sunbathe, so we chose to sunbathe! Our next stop was Ko Phi Phi, the first of our islands! This is where the backpacker scene really kicked off with people really only there to party. Amazingly, I managed to meet up withHoover, my tour guide from Contiki NZ who now lives on Phi Phi. It was awesome to see her and we spent two nights having a few drinks and catching up ... read more

Hi everyone, sorry this has taken so long for me to update just been far too busy!! We went to Koh Tao after the full moon party, it was a really small island famous for scuba diving but we never ended up doing this because although it was cheap we really didn't have enough to do it and it would have cost 400 pound :-( We stayed in our first dorms here which turned out not to be too great but we did meet some really nice people in there and spent quite a bit of time with them which was really nice. Also one of the other girls in our dorm had her laptop and ipod stolen, so once we heard about this we just wanted to leave. Our first day in Koh Tao we ... read more

Hello!!!! I am really not sure when i last updated this but as no one is on skype right now i am doing it now!!! So spent the rest of our time in Phuket in patong which is the party beach!! So this was better - alot more lively and places to go out and eat etc!! One of the days we had to do the visa run to maylaysia - this was a very long day got up at 6 and got back at 8!! very hard getting around with my leg but it was ok and at least i can say i have been to malaysia lol!! We then had one more night in patong and went to the same restaurant again for the third night as i couldnt walk far! One of thwe ... read more

After spending far too much time in Tonsala (Phanang) waiting for our boat we eventually made it to Koh Tao and went to our resort - Asia Divers Resort. Compared to the dive that we stayed in previously this was like a haven. It was unbelievable! Massive room, fan on the ceiling, soft bed, balcony, swimming pool. It was amazing and we could not have been happier with our bargain find. We decided to have a drink in the outside bar where we met Robin who was doing his DMT (dive master training). We ended up chatting with him for ages and in exchange he was giving us enormous drink measures. After a little while we met another fellow English man, Sam from London. He looked a little like Carl Pilkington and the more we got ... read more

This morning charlie woke up with his sunburn hurting and itching a lot and couldn't move to much so today we unfortuneatly havent been able to do much and charlie has spent the day so far lieing face down on his bed covered in aftersun! We arrived on the island late yesterday after noon and did a bit of haggling with the taxi driver to get us to the hostel (which charlie really enjoyed). In the end though we still ended up paying to much as the hostel turned out to be just round the corner from the ferry port (which we didn't know at the time). It is a nice hostel that we have got on koh Samui it has a small indoor swimming pool that I have just cleaned out before writing this(i just ... read more

Hi guys, So we have spent the last 3 days on the tropical island of Koh Tao, which is one of the most beautiful places we have ever been, it's just how you would imagine a tropical island. However we had to endure a 10 hour train journey from Bangkok Hua Lamphong station down to Chumphon which was hell. Extreme heat and loud Russians packed on a train don't mix well! We then caught a bus to the boat port where we caught the high speed catamaran across to Koh Tao, seeing all the other islands along the way. The hostel we stayed in was pretty basic, but the people were nice and two of them happen to be staying in the next hostel we are staying in on Koh Samui, and the other two in ... read more