Having Boarded a sleeper bus in Chiang Mai we were now headed for Bangkok again (joy!) on our way to the Islands in the south of Thailand. The journey took a roughly 12 hours after the usual delay in leaving and general hanging around. In Bangkok we managed to meet up with Ashley, Laura's brother who had been on a lads holiday to the Islands, mainly spent in Koh Phangan - our first destination. We had a day to spend in Bangkok before we boarded another night bus followed by a boat to Koh Phangan. We both went with Ashley and two of his friends to the Bangkok weekened market, so big it has its own map. The size was incredible, along with the amount of crap. This was truely my sisters idea of heaven, one
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