We arrived into Ko Lanta, a little island off Thailand's West Coast (The long thin bit of Thailand) on 2nd January. We were met at Saladan port by Corey, Kerry, Lou and Allaster - Stu's mates. Our journey from Bangkok was interesting!! We got the overnight train at 7:15pm. We decided to go for an air-con carriage, because Sarah thought she was gonna die last time she did the same journey. (And turned a tango-like orange colour from all the dust coming in the window). Stu slept like a baby, but I just couldn't sleep. All those romantic notions of train jouneys are B.S. if you ask me. They are noisy and you bounce around uncomfortably for most of the night. Anyways our train was late into Surat Thani, so we spent hours sitting around, then
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