Koh Phangan - Bangkok

Hey - sorry its taken us so long for an update but we have been moving about so much recently..
We went on our safari tour of koh phangan and did the elephant trekking and visited some waterfalls and view points on the island was pretty cool...

The following day we just chilled and did some snorkelling - up towards bottle beach and Chaloklum is fab for snorkelling and the beaches are gorgeous..

Sunset on Koh Phangan was well nice..

Check out the elephant trekking the guy just kept laughing because we didnt have our "weight" distributed evenly enough!

We arranged to get the boat and bus back up to Bangkok - as it was far cheaper than a flight - 900 baht but it does take 12 hours to get there.. the boat was grand and it left us up to Chumphon where we transferred to the bus - big air con with movies so cool and also stops for dinner etc at Hua Hin.. we arrive in Bangkok on the Khao San road at about 130am and had to make our way to our hostel the HI on Sukumvit road - this was not easy! it was dark we were tired i needed to go to the loo and and hour and a half later after haggling with several tuk tuk drivers and one taxi taking us but then procedding to get out of his car turn on his full beams and was studying our lonely planet book to see how to get there!
Moral for that day was to make sure you get transport and accomodation sorted well before you arrive...leads to a lot more peace and quite!!
The hostel was super and cheap even for a double private room, so we booked in here for 5 nights..
The first day in Bangkok was spent shopping using the sky train - i was in heaven as the Siam centre has everything even though we only went to buy a replacement camera since the last one drowned in Gers shorts.. we both managed to leave with extra bags of goodies ( north face shop inside had a sale on!!)
The food court on the ground floor is great as well caters for everybody and after we decided to go to the Siam Ocean World in the basement - more for kids really but it has a super aquarium tunnel thing that is massive and full of rays, huge sharks and wierd looking creatures that probably resemble some folks on a saturday night trying to get home from Copperface Jacks in Dublin..!
Keep in touch folks and will uplaod photos on our next session - bye for now!

D&G