Thailand

We decided to be brave and headed for Thailand. We arrived at Krabi and it was the most beautiful place I've ever seen. We had a little bungalow on the beach which was perfect it just had one minor downfall. The toilet didn't flush, it wasn't broken or anything it's just a flushing toilet is too technically advance at the moment for Thailand. Instead we have a little saucepan at the side in which you had to pour water down it yourself. This was enough to convince me I  couldn't eat at the resort for the duration of our trip as they definitely use this same pan to cook.

On the first day we visited the phi phi islands, here we saw the most surreal idyllic beaches I have ever seen. Now Sarah is very scared of the sea but after a friendly shove she decided to give snorkelling a try. It was all going very well until she started shouting there's a sting ray chasing me and almost evacuated the whole group until on closer inspection it was just the buckle of her life jacket. It was an honest mistake and everyone was very forgiving apart from the elderly man who had almost given himself a hernia in all the todo. Aside from that everything went swimmingly.

In Thailand rather than taxi's they have a special sort of transport called a 'tuck tuck' now this is a motorbike with a carriage attached to the side. These are great apart from one night it started raining heavily so the driver pulled down a waterproof cover like a pram, however rather than just covering us he covered the while contraption so we looked like a driving lightbulb as his headlight reflected back on us. This proved problematic for him as he couldn't see the road ahead. After that night we decided to give the tuck tuck the benefit of the doubt at get another, the only problem here was Sarah got confused with the name of them and you can imagine the look on his face when she offered him a 'tug tug'.

On the second day we went elephant trekking, it wasn't clearly explained to us that we had it kayak for three hours to get to the elephants and we trailed behind with a Chinese family and the only English they knew was 'ring ding ding' I personally thought they were trying to sing crazy frog. The elephant trekking was spectacular, our elephant was called nipple, that's not even made up for humour as that's very immature humour it might just be the only English word they know. After 

about 5 minutes the Thai man got off the elephant and let us 'drive it' I went first however I was wearing a dress and it took me ten minutes to explain I was wearing a bikini underneath - he still thought his Christmas had come early. I think he did aswell. When Sarah was driving he taught her the elephant sounds to make it walk and personally it sounded like a fat man trying to thrust. I just think he was slightly perverted. He offered to take pictures of us with our iPhones whilst we were stuck on top of an elephant - we weren't falling for that one.

The 5 days we spent there were incredible. It was honestly the best place I have ever been too. There were only 8 of us in our whole resort run by a Thai family. They had two pet dogs which after feeding a snickers too wouldn't leave us alone. One night I heard this heavy breathing at the door and I was convinced pirates from Somalia had popped in to capture us, after eventually plucking up the courage and thinking they might as well take me now we saw that it was just the dog sleeping outside.