Krabi Town

Sooo after our looong journey of an overnight boat a mini van and a coach we finally arrived at Krabi! We met two english girls and we all jumped in a tuktuk together for 50baht, bargain!! We had a wander around and settled for a guesthouse near the pier. The owner showed us two rooms the first one looked and smelt like someone had died in it haha, the second was surprisingly alot nicer so without much thought we picked the non deathly tramp room an went for the half decent one for an extra £3 lol! We went over the road to the local eatery and had a feast of pork an rice, pad thai and soup with ice lemon tea for £2! We wandered around the centre and it was a lovely quiet town with mostly locals an no tourists, it was great! We had a wander around the night market had tea and a delicious chocolate pancake then headed to a rooftoop bar.....then the weather.took a turn for the worse and instead of watching the sunset we watched lightning and a thunderstorm it was still pretty cool from the rooftop! We headed to buy our ticket to Ko Lanta for tomorrow, then hit one more bar on the way home, only to keep dry from the rain of course hehe and we bumped into a couple we met at the full moon party! Soon we were back into the room packing again for the next journey....

Ko Tao

So we arrived in Ko Tao after a four hour boat journey (who said travelling was easy?) and made our way through the barrage of tuktuk drivers. Yet again we had no hotel so off we went to find one. After not realising how hilly the island is we settled on a nice guesthouse with AC! We headed out for brekkie and had a wander round the pier. We booked our diving trip for the next day and had a few drinks in an english pub watched the sun go down and had dinner in a locals house which was delicious and we were soon asleep!

The next day we had brekkie in the 7-eleven and found our boat for the trip. The tour guide was a funny american guy and he made it even better. We stopped at a place called shark bay where friendly sharks swim but due to the recent earthquake they had all left for deeper water. The next stop the water was alot deeper and the captain took photos of us diving off the top deck and Gem did it aswell! (and it was dead high so I was proud of myself haha!) We stopped at 5 dive sites and visited the nearest island which had a great a beach and some great scenery too. The boat headed back and we went home for a quick change and out for dinner to the locals house again. We booked our bus and night boat to Krabi for the following night and went home to pack our stuff.

The next day we spent on the beach and in a few bars while we waited for our ride. The boat was an experience as it was ten hours long sleeping on super thin mattresses on an open deck in a thunderstorm so it was fair to say we didnt get much sleep! We then got on a two hour bus then a half hour tuktuk and wallah we were in Krabi Town! (Lazy backpackers you say?)

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Songkran and Samui

So we arrived at Ko Samui after a heard few days in Ko Phangan. We thought we would have some time to ourselves and get some much needed rest but that wasnt about to happen as Ko Samui had different plans for us...We started off touring the island looking at all the beautiful beaches and Waterfalls including the Big Buddha statue and elephant sanctuary which was amazing. You got to handfeed baby elephants which was a first! The next day was the Songkran festival which in Thailand is when there new year starts and they celebrate it by throwing water and talk over oncoming people! We got straight into the spirit and got ourselves some water guns and buckets to join in the fun. We hitchhiked all over the island soaking people as we went past! We enjoyed it more than the Thai people we think. After a few afternoon drinks on the balcony we headed out and found ourselves in a Ladyboy show! Ben didnt find it very interesting (which is what he told me) but i loved it because it was just like a musical! Infact the all the Ladyboys looked better than i did! I was jealous haha. We went back out onto the strip were all of the bars were absolutely soaking. The water fights continued on throught the night and we even managed to meet a couple from Liverpool who were on there Honey moon :-). They were lovely and we had a laugh, we drank lots of buckets and danced in the Mango club until 5 a.m. The next day we took it easy as our heads werent really feeling very good not suprisingly. We booked our bus that day and the following morning we were packed up and ready to head to Ko Tao to do a spot of a diving on what is supposed to be the best places for it! Cheers!

Ready to Party!!

The Full Moon Party

Ko Phangan

So after the relief of getting our bag back we decided to move abit closer to the partying side of the island. Turns out we were three doors down from our Dutch friends which could only lead to one thing...five days of none stop drinking. Night number one was the much anticipated pirate party were we drank flesje sterik and made our way to the shindig. Turns out the pirate party was a full on rave with techno music on all night needless to say it wasnt really our scene but were threw a few shapes nobody had EVER seen before! cant remember what time were fell in - always the sign of a good night. Round two - Mushroom mountain. You cant pretty much guess what went on here and No we never had any shakes. We spent the night with lots of new characters there was around fifteen of us and we had a scream! Round 3 - The jungle Party. Which was a rave in the middle of the jungle with UV lights techno music and fire shows. It really was a one off experience and Ben managed to get a lift with Wessel on the roof of the tuk tuk all the way home while Gem was squashed in the sweat box all the way home with about ten German guys.Round 4 - The big one - The full moon party!! All 12 of us got ourselves neon painted up and Ben looked stupider thanks usual haha. Jonny shaved a face into his hair on the back of his head to try and freak people out haha. We got the full moon party where 30,000 people were waiting for us - Bring on the buckets! Were instantly lost everybody and wandered from bar to bar watching all the crazy events (30000 people dancing on.a small beach with alot of UV paint!) About four hours later were met everybody again had more buckets and danced til the sun came up on Haadrin Beach. Round 5 - Quiet drinks at cozy bungalows and a few games of pool (maybe 100) and a recap on last nights antics. We watched a few films had some beers and called it a night. Round 6 we visited the local english pub and night market for food and drinks and watched manchesters'united play arsenal while jonny sang every MUFC song her knew and high fived the whole bar when they won. We played ping pong,pool and darts drank more beer and said farewell to our friends as tonight was the last night we would see them all :-(. Tomorrow we will leave for Ko Samui but its there were we will celebrate Songkram the Thai New Year water festival.

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