9th and 10th May We took the overnight bus from Bangkok, which was a double decker with reclining seats. This was surprisingly more comfortable than our previous bus journeys. We arrived on time at 5.15 am at Chumphon and then waited with about 80 others for the 7.00am catamaran to the Island of Koh Tao where we had booked in with the Big Blue D...

This morning i did my visa run to Myanmar from Ranong it took about 3hrs in total including getting to the boat and back in the taxi. It cost less from Ranong and it meant i didn't have to travel too far. I prefered the last visa run i did in Northern Thailand as i had someone walk me through it, this time i was left to get on with it. I'm quite...

Special entry by Anna, Laura, Chris and Craig........ We were so pleased to see Will and Debs. They were both so brown and seemed like very experienced travellers. They had both been clearly enjoying themselves on their travels and seemed very happy. We don't know what we would have done without them, they negotiated, bartered and helped us out ...

you can check out but you can never leave this town. we checked out of phuket and jumped on a bus north to the mainland. several hours later we pulled into chumphon. people blink at us and children stare. evidently tourists only come to get on the boats to the nearby islands. very few people speak english here. unlike indonesian and malaysian, w...

Took fast ferry from Koh Tao to Chumphon, our stop over for one night on our way to Chaiya. Cute little town with a lot of smiling locals, nothing much going on apart from the ongoing stream of tourists waiting to head to their next destination.

After thinking I might sleep in this morning for my boat, I got an alarm call at 6am. I thought it was loads of drunk people out on the beach and that somehow the full moon party had been salvaged at the last minute....happened...and that I had missed it. However, when I went out to investigate it turned out three navy boats had come and docked ...

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So about 2 pounds bought us a lovely bumpy overnight coach ride to Chumphon from Bangkok, in which I attempted to sleep, but we kept stopping at random locations for the driver to get off and have a fag or something, so I kept waking up thinking we were there. Obviously not. We did eventually arrive at the hideous hour of something past 5. The f...

As you can tell by the total of 0 photos we took in Chumphon the place really ain't all that! We got the train down the coast from Hua Hin & booked 1 night at Suda's Guest House. (She was an absolute diamond. Anyone that can recommend good food & drink places ranks highly to us! Ha ha!) Passed the day on the internet (which shows how bor...

At 7pm on the 8th we headed off on our long trip to Southern Thailand. Little did we know but 7pm actually meant 9pm. After 11 hours on the road in our luxury aircon bus we arrived in Chumphon. This was where we caught the ferry to our first island stop in Southern Thailand. Sounds delightful doesn't it????? Well it wasn't.... the aircon bus mea...