Want to see lady boys, hug tigers, drink too many buckets of whiskey and look at a mummy...Just some of the bizarre things to do in Thailand

In June 2011 (7 years ago this month) we went on our first backpacking adventure, around Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia. We...

7 years ago, this week (start of June 2011) we arrived in Thailand for the start of our first backpacking adventure. This week we thought...

2nd Jul 2011 - 4th Jul 2011 - Had breakfast not as good as last hotel and then got taxi to the bus stop which happened to be outside our...

29th Jun 2011 - 1st Jul 2011 - So we woke up after an uncomfortable sleep and got same taxi driver as last night to take us to the bus...

28th Jun 2011 - Got picked up in a mini bus to take us to Penang. Over 9 hours and 3 mini busses later we arrived. We hadn't researched...

27th Jun 2011 - Went on a trip to 'James Bond' Island today. We drove for an hour then got a long tail boat which took us through the...

24th Jun 2011 - 26th Jun 2011 - Today we are heading to Phi Phi Don, we took a boat which took 1 and half hours or so, and the views...

23rd Jun 2011 Another day so another day of travelling... Left our lovely suite in Koh Samui and haggled for a taxi to take us to Nathon...

19th Jun 2011 - 22nd Jun 2011 - Snorkelling trip today around Koh Tao. Was rough sea and because of that we couldn't stop at our first...

17th Jun 2011 - 18th Jun 2011 - Made some re-scheduling plans to take a bus later in afternoon as there are many of them and trains less...

16th Jun 2011 - Taxi from hotel in Bangkok to thornburi bus station, bus to Kanchanaburi, songthaew to hotel PongPhen which is on the...

13th June- Walked across the road to the train station (very handy location is the hotel) and got tickets for the 0555 train to...

12th Jun 2011 - 13th Jun 2011 - Busy day and extremely long! Woke up and checked out hotel, got a songthaew to the bus station in Pattaya...

10th Jun 2011 - 11th Jun 2011 - Train journey went very well, we both slept all night. We disembarked train and got a Tuk Tuk to Ekamai...

9th Jun 2011 - Today we went to the rain forest to do zip lining through the jungle canopy's. The tour is called 'the flight of the...

8th Jun 2011 - Woke up early to go on our trip with elephants. We had a look through the flyers of popular elephant day trips yesterday...

7th Jun 2011 - Had a good nights sleep actually on the train, woke up at 6.30 because we guess the train broke down, started again an...

5th / 6th Jun 2011 - Landed in Bangkok about 3.30pm Thai time. Flight was 10 hours 35 minutes. I slept most of it so it felt fine. We...

3rd & 4th Jun 2011 - We are leaving today!! We got up early to finish packing and sorting out last minute things. Went to the airport...

1st Jun 2011 - A little story about Shannon and me getting together and deciding to go travelling.... We were only friends at the time...