Ciara Naughton
Nocto
Ciara Naughton
left home on the 15th after a stressful summer!!! (joke).. first stop bangkok...
on fitst impressions the city apperared dirty and how right i was! as it turned out tho i had a brillaint time, massages, hairdressers and shops are so cheap and we made the most of it! we stayed in a pretty posh appartment for the first 3 nights and then headed to the back packers on kosan road for the last night.... loved the atmosphere in kosan road !! We stayed for the first 3 nights in a posh appartment but we reminded ourselves as we do time and time again we are backpackers and not flashpackers!!! so we stayed in a cheap place on kosan road for the last night there!! We hadnt intended on staying in bangkok for so long but we diceded to get our visas and that took 3 days for the visas for laos, cambodia and vietnam!!!
After the bangkok adventure we took and overnight train to koh tAO which i couldnt believe, the train resembled moore street!! not messin, every 2 minutes people up and down, hopping on and off selling things, it was hilarious, eventually it calmed down a little and the staff made the beds for us!! it was great! The boat to koh tao was fine and we stayed in a place called the AC resort, phoneix divers were our diving club! at first i thought diving was going to be easy but it was so hard, we had to