Ricky and Onie

For Riks 25th Birthday, i treated him to a "Deep Adventure Dive", which entiltes a person to dive down to 30 metres, safely! The day started at 6am, when the dive boat left Mayhad Pier, in the direction of Chumphon Pinnacle, which is roughy 15km west north west of Ko Tao! Riks day consisted of 2 dives! One would be at Chumphon Pinnacle, and the other would be at the shallower White Rock! The previous day, divers had spotted a juvinile whale shark here, so Rik had his hopes high to see one! Unfortunalty there was no appearance, which didn't matter as he got to swim up close with both bull sharks, and grey reef sharks at Chumphon Pinnacle! At one point, a grey reef shark even playfully swam under Riks legs! He was really lucky, ... read more

After a two hour ferry ride from Ko Lanta, we arrived in Krabi Province. We got a taxi to Krabi town, to a guesthouse called the J.P's Mansion, which has a super friendly owner called Rin and really nice rooms! You can get a decent sized room here from 200baht (with shared bathroom), 400 baht (for room with fan, TV, hot water and ensuite), and then 500 baht (for ensuite, hot water, TV and air-con)! It has a super chilled out atmoshpere here, with creative glow-in-the-dark paintings scattered all over the guesthouse! It is also perfectly located near all of Krabi towns facilites, like the restaurants, pier and shopping centre! Today Rik went Rock-Climbing at Ton Sai Bay, which is located on Krabi near Railey! He particpated in 4 climbs! The first was 15 meters, the ... read more

Today we have gone on a group tour to Bamboo Island, then back to Phi Phi Dons Monkey Beach, and then finally visited Phi Phi Li's famous Maya Bay and Loh Samah Bay! our itinery was as follows: 9.00 - leave our resort and head to Bamboo Island! 9.15 - 11.00 - Relax on Bamboo Islands stunning beach, and enjoy snorkling in the Adamin Sea with visibilty up to 15 meters! 11.00 - 11.15 - Travel back to Phi Phi Don, to Monkey Beach via long tail boat. 11.15 - 12.00 - Feed the firendly monkeys, and eat lunch! 12.00 - 12.15 - Travel to Maya Bay via long tail boat! 12.15 - 3.00 - Spend nearly 3 glorios hours at the stunning Maya Bay (wjere they filmed The Beach), and enjoy snorkling right out in ... read more

Well ... Phuket has certinly kept us both busy over the last two days! Yesturday we hired out a motorbike, and explored the eastern, southern and western parts of Phuket! We were promised bad weather, so were over the moon when it turned out to be a really hot, sunny day! Our first stop was Phukets Aquarium, positioned near Yon Bay (South-East Phuket)! We enjoyed looking at the Nemo's, and the Aquarium also had a great selection of sharks, rays and turtles too, which was great! After seeing how beautiful Yon Bay's beach was, we decided to hop from beach to beach around the southern and western coast of Phuket! We visited Kata Beach, Karo Beach and Freedom beach, stopping shortly at each one to take in the stunning views! Just before we entered Karo Beach, ... read more

Happy New Year Everyone! So the last couple of days being in Bangkok, have been rather exciting! First there was the well missed cuisine (McDonalds, The Royal India and Squeeze, the famous smoothy bar - all at Paragon), then there was the Paragon complex itself, followed up by an exilerating 2 and 1/2 hour 3D iMax Avatar experiance, and to top it all off....New Year at Rambuttri drinking Chang beer and smoking apple sheesha! Life doesn't get better than this!!! We have enjoyed 3 nights staying in the posh Rambuttri Village Inn, which has been by far the nicest hotel we have stayed in, in the whole of South East Asia! It may have something to do with the expensive prices! But as it was new year, we thought "lets treat ourselves"! As we are still ... read more