Thailand!!!

Ok so we arrived in the backpackers haven in Bangkok called Khao San road in the pouring rain at about 6 am which sucked as nothing was open. So by about 9 am we had a place to stay and full stomachs so we had a nap. We were pretty tired so went out to sort out our suits, and have a wee shop (I had to replace my ipod that I lost in Hanoi). But after that we were just too tired, and took a boat along the river back to Khao San Rd. Not much else happened that day.

By the 2nd day we were just sick of the noise of Khao San Road, so we just chilled out all morning until we checked out and went to see Grand Palace, but we missed out on seeing it by 10 minutes as the King had some Coronation thing that day, so we went to Wat Pho and Alan was pretty amazed by the temple complex. Grant was bored as he had seen it before. Then we just had to kill time before our bus and pack our new suits away. Now Grant looks like he has way too much luggage for a backpacker....

So we arrived in Koh Pha Ngan after a very long bus and boat journey, we decided to stay on the area away from all of the partying which was great. We went snorkelling, sat and read books, ate, had naps, and that was about it for 2 days. Brilliant!

Then it was off to Ko Tao, the boat ride was about 90 minutes which was just long enough to get a bit of an addition to the tan! We arrived there and sorted out our open water dive course, and we got free accommodation if we do the course. Diving is one of the coolest things we've done, and the water is pretty warm which made it pretty easy. Not getting eaten by a shark or attacked by a trigger fish made it much better!

Alan diving

Grant in Diving Gear

Ko Tao was a pretty cool town, very much set up for tourism. Plenty of bars on the beach and parties. On the 1st night we went to Thai Kickboxing with 7 fights. Saw a couple fo guys get knocked out by elbows to the temple. It's pretty crazy and I wouldn't go near it!

Next was Koh Phangan... party central! We stayed there for 7 nights and partied a lot as we picked Coral Resort which had a bunch of crazy (but cool) people staying there. The first few nights were just about meeting new people that were staying there. We've made friends from all sides of the globe and partied with them all. There was basically a party on the beach every night that went to about 5am, and there were always people keen to head out all night.

On the 15th there was a pool party at the resort, we both agreed it was one of the best parties we have ever been to. It started off with drunken Jack from Holland putting on a performance that only he could, swinging from table to table and shouting whatever came to his head... Then it was time to get in the pool before it became horribly polluted, then everyone started arriving from over the island so we went and partied. Great fun!

The next night was the Black Moon Party, Alan wasn't too keen after the pool party, but Grant went... It was actually pretty lame, really psychadelic trance with everyone seemlingly off their heads on drugs and not in any mood to be social. Not my idea of a good time at all!

The last night was a really fun night out, our group of new found friends just hanging out at Coral all night as most of us were leaving the next day. Grant had fun throwing ice whenever Richard and Mel started sucking face as we were sick of them doing it all day!

Grant and some of our Coral Friends

Then for other reasons which Alan will specify in his blogs, we had to split ways... Alan back to Bangkok, and Grant to Krabi. We will update you on these antics later

Ka kite
Grant & Alan