Thailand Part II

We got to bangkok and it was like dejavu! Been there done that. We only stayed for 2 nights, and we booked ourselves on an overnight train and bus and boat to our first island, Koh Phangnan!!

The trip took FOREVER and I was ridiculously cranky.....I hated everyone. But when we arrived at our beach bungalow I was very happy. The owner turned out to be English and very pissed when we arrived at lunchtime!! Gorgeous views, lovely bungalow, and beautiful beach! Very happy. Laura and Louis were also on KPG and came and moved into our bungalows the following day as we had planned to go to the Half Moon Party together and we were closer to the venue.

We lounged on the beach in the day and bought in booze for the evening, drank on our bungalows balcony with music and headed upto the party. It was in the jungle area, and was quite expensive! We soon realised the music was rubbish and wasn't really very good....BOOO! Still managed to stay for a while though. I refused to pay the ridiculous price the tuk tuk drivers wanted so we walked home along the creepy pitch black road!!

We spent the next few days on the beach and we had a night out on the Full Moon Beach. Very messy night with buckets (ergh again!) and sand, and fire shows, very fun! Laura went MENTAL and started throwing sand all over Elliot and Louis!! She is mad...We decided to move onto Koh Tao after a good while at KPG and had to say byebye to Laura and Louis as they were going back to Canadialand :'( sob!!! End to Elliots bromance with Louis!

Koh Tao was lovely...we decided not to book a place to stay and just walk along the beach and find somewhere nice and cheap. Almost everywhere we went to though was really expensive!! (in Thai cheap terms) But we eventually found a perfect beach bungalow! YAY! We stayed in Koh Tao for a good few days, we did a snorkelling trip where Elliot burnt his back and I burnt my BUM! Classy. So I got to spend a few days sitting in agony! We did some Crazy Golf! And wandering around in the sun :) While there we met Lucinda and Adam at the Full Moon Party on the beach. VERY drunk night, and I felt so sick after all the mixture of YES more buckets....We met them for drinks the next day and decided to stay in touch as we were probably going to be going to some of the same places.

We were headed for Railay Beach next, which involved boat trip, bus trip an over night stay, and another boat trip as Railay is only accesable by boat. Really beautiful place!! The main beach is gorgeous and sandy, and also very expesive to stay on as there are only a couple of very expensive resorts on the beach, so we headed to the muddy mangrove ridden beach and got a really cheap bungalow, which involved walking up the hugest load of stairs EVER out in the boiling heat with backpacks on, ergh it was horrible. By this point I was getting VERY sick of the cheap simple fan bungalows....But the price is too good! We did a HIKE through the friggin jungle on our first day over to the next bay along. SO HOT and when we got to the end of the jungle track it threw it down with rain! Torrential, on and off for a couple of hours, with ridiculously lound thunder!! We tried to hire a taxi boat back to the main beach but they refused to take us unless we payed for a full boats worth, or get another 8 people to go on the boat with us!!! This on an empty beach hahaha....So the guy suggested we walk along the water, through the jagged rocks! Which we ended up doing, got pretty wet, and Elliot cut his finger open. NICE! Our few days there were spent MELTING, it was so so hot, so after the hiking day we just sat on the beach, reading etc. We planned to rent kayaks but after the snorkelling burning incident we decided against it in the heat!

After our few days in Railay, we got a boat down to Koh Lanta, where we stayed in our first air conditioned room since Vientianne in Loas! It was LOVELY! We spent a day by the pool, and did a half day cooking course which was so fun! We got to eat what we cooked and keep what we didnt eat and it was SO tasty! Loved it...We moved to a different resort after a couple of nights, into a REALLY nice bungalow, aircon, TV, lovely big windows overlooking the beach and gardens MMM! We spent our time there on the beach or by the pool. Very nice and relaxing.

We then headed for our last island, Koh Phi Phi, which was pretty busy! Very hot but lots of fun :) Here is where we met up with Lucinda and Adam again, and we spent a couple of days with them, one night drinking BUCKETS...AGAIN! (I never learn) and dancing on the beach :) At about 12 though it pissed it down and we all had to leg it! No point though as we were soaked through. We ended up back at their fancy bungalow, and drinking beers from the shop until about 4am!!

The next day, we met up, all feeling terrible, and embarked on a walk around the island! Sweating out the drink from the night before!!!! We arranged to share a longtailboat for a trip out the "The Beach" the next day, and so we spent the day on our boat, looking at monkeys, snorkelling, sunning, wandering around "The Beach" and taking in the amaze views. After that we went to a fire show on the beach which was amazing!! SO ace....Said byebye to Lucinda and Adam, but agreed we would go visit them in Brighton :)

We headed off to Phuket island after PP as we were flying from there. We only gave ourself one night there as we hadn't heard great things about it. When we were arriving on the coach, we realised it was Thai New Year! Which they celebrate with a HUGE waterfight!!! We got wet just finding somewhere to stay. We got changed straight away and went to buy a water pistol!! We spent HOURS on the streets soaking people and getting soaked, and dancing at the street parties. SO much fun! After a good few hours, we headed back to book a taxi to the airport and get to bed to make sure we woke up in time!

So we made it to the airport, got the quick flight to Kuala Lumpur and waited in KL Airport for 8 HOURS!!! SOOOO BORING! Then sat on the plane for a further 11 hours!!! Just as boring....But we eventually arrived there in New Zealand! :)