Day 16 & 17: Koh Phi Phi

Day 16...
The following day Jack and Kim enjoyed a morning in the pool while Niks and Kerry ventured out for Breakfast (toast and strawberries) and a hair braid, yay!!!! Arriving back we all had a little swim before being kicked out as we had moved to the bungalows (without a pool) next door, booo. We then made our way to meet Beth and co to get a taxi boat to Maya Beach from the movie 'The beach'. It has crystal clear water but unfortunately it had been taken over by taxi boats, which was a big shame. After some shameful tourist travel photos, sunbathing and a swim in the sea, we had a little explore of the very small island. Taxi boat back and we went out for food........with Kerry and Kim finishing their first meals with CHOPSTICK wooo hooo yeah alright!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We went out that evening to Dojo where Jack bumped into a 'mutal friend' #BaversOnTour and then headed to Woodys and Slinkys on the beach front. With Jack having an unforgetable Thai experiece, nothing else will be said about the rest of the evening or events that followed.......

Day 17...
We were up bright and early for a boat trip which we had arranged the day before to visit all of the little islands around Phi Phi. We were 1 man down as Jack was too hungover. First stop snorkelling.....very funny experience with the boat staff throwing food towards Kimmy and Kerry who screamed, laughed and splashed around with the rest of the group watching! Nicola was in her element getting a good look at those fishys. We stopped off at a beautiful Island and then Kayaked to Monkey Island. Monkey Island was obviously full of monkeys who were very cheeky. They stole watermelons, grabbed children and chased everyone round the beach. They were not the friendliest and we were warned they may bite.  All together it was a great trip with nap time between each stop/activity. Frankie (child sat next to us) was in trouble most of the trip and I don't think that name will ever sound the same to us.

Arriving back we went for a drink in a bar (Jack unable to join) and then headed to the beach. A few drinks turnt Into a.......picnic?!  Our feast on beach included crepes, pizza and crisps. As well as meeting someone from Bristol who had already completed her trip round the East Coast of Australia and gave us loads of tips.

Day 13 & 14: Koh Samui

Day 13:
We got a boat from Koh Phangan to Koh Samui which only took an hour or so. Everyone had previously told us how commercialised Koh Samui was and when we arrived there it felt like we had arrived in Spain or Greece. It was completely westernized with English Restaurants and bars everywhere. We found a hotel and went out to explore. Koh Samui had a beautiful beach and lovely bars. We got talking to some swedish guys in the room opposite us. Swen (pirate look a like and absolutely hilarious), Adam (top knot), Simon (long and thin). We pre-drank together playing a very funny game of ring of fire. We taught them the English rules and they took us to a sweedish bar called Viking, with us being the only non Sweds. Couple of buckets, a shot of Vodka and Kim dancing with a hot (sweaty) guy lead to us all having a fab night.

Day 14:
We spent the day at the beach with Jack wearing white shorts that went see through in the water which was a little bit awkward. There were some interesting characters at the beach, lots of girls having their own photo shoots which was great for people watching. That night we went out for dinner with the swedish guys, who had two more friends with them, Joakim otherwise known as UK or your gay and Vidar the angry one/Adam look a like. We had a few quiet drinks in the hotel as we all had to be up at 5/6am to travel to the next place. The swedish boys had a great idea to stay up all night playing cards and drinking until it was time to catch the bus. Kim and Jack flaked around 2ish with Jack being sick (light weight) and Kim going to the "toilet" aka bed. Nicola and Kerry made it through. Passing the time with Swedish card games and being taught Swedish phrases which was great fun. A snackett was recieved.

Day 22 to 23 Phnom Penh

Day 22...
Very interesting and educational day as we visited the Killing Fields. This is  a site where large number of people were killed and buried by communist Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. At least 1,386,734 victims were executed if suspected to have connections with government, foreign government as well as professionals, intellectuals, ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Cham, Cambodian Christians and the Buddist Monkhood. The site had a mormorial building with Budddist arkutecture filled with the victims skulls, bones, clothing and the weapons used to kill them. We then went on to visit a Khmer Rouge prison with very creepy small rooms. Some of the rooms were divided with wood or concoreate and JUST enough room for the prisioners to lie down.

Although it was an educational day, it was very sad to see. So we decided to have a chilled at the Hostal with some Cider and a few games of cards. The Cambodian receptionists did not know what Cider was (surprising as alot of the cider sold in asia was bottled there) so we got them to have a try. At last minute Niks, Jack and Kerry  jumped in a Tuk Tuk and headed to Banana Bar, 20 minutes in and the bell rang for last orders. We shared a Tuk Tuk back with 2 guys from our Hostal called Adam and Andy from London who had the exact same outfits on....confusing! They had just come from Vietnam so gave us some useful tips.

Day 23...
Unable to get on the nightbus, Ker and Niks went for tourist day. Kim and Bavs had a sleepy day at the Hostal. Ker and Niks went to the Russian Market buying a few travel Souviners and saw the Golden Palace (very gold!). On the way back the Tuk Tuk broke down  (#2ndworldproblems) so we took the remainder of the journey by foot. We all went out for dinner and drinks at the Monkey bar. Niks purchased Kerry a drink called Bazuka consisting of Red Bull, Sambuca and Absinth....after applying peer pressure she did it for a point for England!

Day 11 to 12: Koh Phangnan

Day 11: Full Moon Party!!
We went for a yummy lunch with Jill, shopping for some full moon merchandise and then to the beach. When we got back we had some pre-drinks and a game of ring of fire with everyone at the hostel and spent about an hour painting each other for the Full Moon Party. The Full Moon Party was massive, the beach and streets were crowded with people, bucket sales, UV paint, fire dancers and music. We met some Americans guys who love to watch TOWIE and The Valleys (they were an exception as when we asked other Americans they had never heard of it before). We also met a English and Irish couple who have worked in Australia for the last year. They decided to warn us that Oz is pricey, we probably should have budgeted better in Thailand...too late now ooops. Us girls were wettys and by 6am we were ready for home after 1 too many buckets.

Day 12:
We woke up to find Bavers had still not come back....like a stray dog he came back around 4pm. He'd had his last bucket around 9/10am and then went to an after party. That evening we went out for a drink as a 4 and found a bar playing the Inbetweeners film and stayed there. After Bavers met the English guys in a Reggae bar, Kim went back for a sleep and Kerry and Nicola decided to go for drinks on the beach. The few drinks turned into another crazy night, met a few groups of English boys (who apparently had been filmed for Brits in Bangkok) and some irish girls. There was fire skipping on the beach but the Thai were leathal, flicking fire into the crowd. Met a 30 year old Canadian who proposed to Nicola with a bottle top made into a ring. After lots of chat from the Canandian boys from the Hostel about how good a chicken schnitzel was, Nicola and Kerry tried their first chicken schnitzel on the way back which was just fried chicken in a sandwich. Nothing special but still tasty.

Day 10: Koh Tao to Ko Phangan

We took a boat from Ko Tao to Ko Phangan for the full moon party. After being lost wondering around the town for about an hour we finally found our hostel (Bamboo Hostel), which was also a tattoo parlour (discount tattoos for hostel users). We got to our room which was a giant bunk bed with 7 mattresses on top and 6 on the bottom all pushed together (and one toilet...gross). In this room were 3 swedish girls, an English girl called Jill travelling on her own, two English boys Cam and Lewis and two canadian guys. The room next to us was full of 6 canadians who were friends with the two canadians in our room (canadian invasion). After all the introductions we got ready and had some pre-drinks then made our way to the beach with Cam, Lewis and Jill. We had a few buckets, drinking games on the beach as well as having our taro cards read. With Nicola discoving she would have the pick of 7 guys the following evening! Once back at the hostel we met an Austrailian guy having a tattoo done within a 16 hour sitting (crazy) waking up the following lunch time to find him still there!

Koh phangnan is a small island, full of packbackers. It didnt seem to have any real sites but a long beach lined with bars and beach parties every night.

Day 20 to 21 Siem Reap

Day 20...
We were told the bus to Siem Reap would only take 8 hours, but it actually took 9.5 hours. We crossed through the boarder which was an experience. We were stamped out of Thailand immigration to walk a few meters to see the 'Welcome to Cambodia' sign. As we crossed through we purchased our visa and went through Cambodia's imigration. Wierdly Cambodia's immigration took our picture and finger prints (we felt like criminals).

Siem Reap was a bizarre city with extreme wealth and poverty. There were children on the street begging, Tuk Tuks, little shaks for houses but also Porsches and Range Rovers driving around, huge houses and fancy restaurant/bars.

When we arrived we checked into OneStop hostel which had only just been built and was soo nice. We went for some food down pub street (a whole street full of bars and restsurants) and came across some street food selling Scorpians and Snakes on sticks. The Scorpians were pretty crunchy and the snake was really chewy but Scorpians were defiantly nicer.....as if we tried them! Didn't even get a picture as you had to pay!

We headed back to the hostel and got ready for a night out on pub street. Jack had found some male company so we eventually joined them for a few drinking games. After finding out some very strange/interesting facts about the guys I think its safe to we all went out feeling extremely normal! Pub Street was a great night out with most people drinking and dancing in the street with a crazy dance off between internationals and Cambodians.

Day 21...
It was temple time, Angkor Wat Temples. We headed out for this tourist day with Nikki and Kimmy dressed in temple atire (purchased for the occasion and very asian themed). The Temple ruins were pretty fascinating but after 5 or so they all became the same sadly. We did see the famous tomb raider temple though which was pretty amazing.  Leaving Jack and Kimmy in the Tuk Tuk Nikki and kerry went to explore. Arriving back we found the Tuk Tuk surrounded by begging children, "1 dolla Miss", "1 dolla Sir", "Please", "Miss please". With Kimmy trying not to look at them or respond and Jack trying to sell them stuff we jumped in and headed to our final temple. Jack was put off by the 20 minute walk so he waited for us in the Tuk Tuk. On return we found ourselves walking up and down looking for Jack and the Tuk Tuk man. Finally we hear "Kezza", the Tuk Tuk pulls in with Jack hanging in a hamock with his head poking out....very funny!

That evening and keeping with the theme we went to Temple Mini Golf. It took us more than one attempt to get there. The first Tuk Tuk man claimed he knew where to go but after half an hour of him driving us around the middle of nowhere we insisted he took us back to the hostel so we could arrange another Tuk Tuk. Thankfully the second Tuk Tuk (golf themed with a grass interior) got us there.
The results were......
1st Place: Jack (should of actully been Nicola as Jacks a cheater)
2nd Place: Nicola (Kerry as Jacks a cheater) 
3rd Place: Kerry (Jack as he is a massive CHEATER)
4th Place: Kimmy (her rightful place)

Arriving back we went out for some food with Nikki and kerry trying their first Cambodian dish...yum. That night we caught our first Cambodian night bus with bunk beds ♡. Kimmy was rocking her mini as a hat to hide her Tina Turner hair!