After almost four hours on the train we finally arrived in Kanchanaburi, the home of the Bridge Over The River Kwai, which became infamous as part of the ‘Death Railway’ given its name by allied prisoners of war, who the Japanese had made to build during world war two as they pushed on their conquest of SE Asia. So many POWs died building this railway, which started in Thailand and crossed over into Burma to the Indian border, that the prisoners themselves (mainly British and Australian) gave the name The Death Railway. There’s still a section of the railway which you can ride the train on, right up to Nam Tok from Bangkok, and this is how we had decided to get to Kanchanaburi. You can get a minibus which gets you there in half the ... read more

We arrived in Koh Tao after getting a ferry from Koh Samui via Koh Penang, which only lasted for about 2 hours with nothing exciting happening along the way. As usual we got off at the ferry terminal and straight away were bombarded by taxi and tuk tuk drivers all shouting over each other and wanting to take us to wherever we were going. We finally opted to go for a taxi with 4 wheel drive and which looked like it could handle going off road as we had heard that the dirt track which would get us to our resort was pretty hard going…..and it definitely was that! After being piled into the back of a pickup truck we were off….climbing up some of the steepest dirt tracks I’ve ever seen and climbing over small ... read more

Blog - Ko phi phi After some very tranquil and relaxing days on koh lanta we headed off to koh phi phi , the word Koh in Thai basically means island so any place with a koh, were on a beach. Now koh phi phi is a pretty small island so small there are no cars and at points you can pretty much walk the width of it in about 10 mins and that's including having a brows in the stalls along the way. We arrived by boat in to the small port and headed off to our guesthouse which was located up a very very steep hill but the views of the ocean made up for it once we caught are breath. Koh phi phi might be small but it packs a lot in its ... read more

With almost a month now gone while we have been in Asia, it was time yet again to move on from Penang......and we decided to head to Malaysias most northern islands on the Andaman Coast, on the border with Thailand, The Langkawi Islands. Before heading over to Langkwai, we had been told that these islands were tax free......which meant cheap bear at last!!.....i think Jade was just excited about the prospect of being able to do as much shopping as she could, we had also heard that this is the place that most people come to go on holiday aswel, so had expected there to be resorts everywhere and for the whole place to be pretty much like a tourist trap......but we decided to check them out anyway seeing how we were so close, and it ... read more

Our time in Malaysia so far seems to be flying by, and we are quickly getting to the point where we will soon be crossing over the border into Thailand to start our adventures there......however we still have our dwindling list of places here we want to visit beforehand! From Melaka we moved on up to Kuala Lumpur, which was only a quick 2 hour coach journey, and so before we knew it we were trudging the streets of KL to try and find a bed for the night. Melaka seemed to have chilled the both of us out a lot and so we had decided while we were there that we wouldn't book any hostels and we would just find somewhere to stay once we arrived.....this was probably the worst decision we could have made, ... read more