We searched for hours on the internet trying to figure out which island in Thailand to spend the last nine days of our trip. Should it be Ko Phi Phi, Ko Tao, Ko this Ko that. There are tons of them. We made a point to avoid the ones that mentioned full moon parties, techno music or buckets of whiskey in our guidebook......

As we walk out of Hulamphong train station at 8am, after a 12 hour ride, we are immediately accosted by tuk tuk and taxi drivers. Yep......we are definitely back in Bangkok......

Bangkok was great but after several days of the heat, noise, and air pollution we were ready to move on to something a little slower paced. Our original plan was to go down to the Andaman Coast in the south west of Thailand. This is where the "guidebook picture beaches" are with the clear water and white sand. We heard from several sources that it was the tail end of the rainy season and that the weather was really bad. So after scouring the guide book for the next best thing, we decided to go to Ko Chang, a south eastern island in the Gulf of Thailand.

After a 28 hr flight, 10 movies between the two of us, 4 hrs of sleep, 12 time zones, flying over the international date line and essentially losing 12 hrs of our lives that we will recoup only when we fly home, we landed at Sumvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand at 10 pm.............