I thought I would go back to the hotel and write my diary, if not my blog yet, which I intend to do. I spent most of the afternoon on the computer, checking how to add entry to the blog and reading what I had written so far. In the evening I went to the travel agent to check the ticket for Huan Hin. Then I went to a Landmark education last evening of the Forum, where participants invite guests. I arrived late. I thought it would be an interesting comparison with London. The course leader was an Indian Sikh and [View Full Entry]

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The elephant ride was slow and bumpy. We got roped in to buying bunches of bananas to feed our elephant....it's the only way we could get it to move! It would raise its stinky trunk up over its head to where we were perched and blow air on us 'till we bought another bunch. They can eat around 250kg of bananas a day, so we had no fear of over feeding it. We drove further into the mountains to a small Karan Hill Tribe Village. An old woman sat weaving, her teeth blackened from chewing beetle nut. Little chickens roamed free [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone, Here I am again. This time I am writing to you from Chang Mai. And I am very exhausted right now. I did something crazy. I went on a 3 day trek trough the jungle. However before I go and tell you about that, i will first tell you about what happened before that. I took an overnight bus from Ayuthaya to Chang Mai, and that was horrible, it was way too long. So without any sleep I arrived in Chang Mai, the first thing they did was wake is us and shove us in pickup truck. I got [View Full Entry]

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After a very long bumpy 10 hour stop/start night bus from Luang Prabang to the border town of Huay Xai we disembarked and caught a tuk tuk to the boarder. It was once again a simple border crossing with a pleasant 5 minute river crossing on a long boat half way through. After 10 minutes from when we got to the Laos border we were in Thailand with a very excitable G (she’d waited for this moment for far too many years)!!!! With G jumping around in excitement, T heard a bloke shouting mini bus to Chiang Mai for 250B (less [View Full Entry]

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Today we did all our laundy. More correctly we paid people 50 baht per kg of washing (normally only 25 baht per kg -but we needed it to be done express) to do it for us. They got all of the stains out - it was great and clothes feel so soft. They even folded it all after they washed and dried it. After this we set out for Doi Supthet National Park to see another famous Wat. This was very elaborate but very crowed. It was also undergoing maintainence work, so that was a bit of a bummer. But it [View Full Entry]

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So, after falling in love with Chiang Mai, we changed our plans and rather than spending 3 days traveling to get to Vietnam, we stayed where we were. Spent a lot of time chilling out in the sun, went to the Night Bizarre and a few other markets - just the usual. Minus one day when we paid a bargainous 8 pounds (can’t find the pound sign on this keyboard!) with another couple for a taxi driver to take us round to various animal places. We went to the Tiger Kingdom, where you can pay to go into little enclosures with [View Full Entry]

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We had a horrible sleep, with hard mattresses and pillows (i think they were lined with dried out rice) and a bamboo floor that bowed time you shifted your weight. The roosters also started crowing constantly from about 3 am. We woke about 7:30 and got ready for the day. Breakfast was as good as our sleep. Inedible scrambled eggs and cold toast. Lucky the tea was good. We set of down to the river to put our bags on our bamboo raft. The raft was about 20 or so metres long. It was a couple metres wide and was made [View Full Entry]

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After our 12 hr train ride the night before, which we so tired from, it was great to sleep in and catch up on some much needed sleep. We decided we wanted to go trekking. Amy really wanted to go eleephant riding so we had to make sure it contained this. We spoke to the lady at our Guest House. She was so good and we organised to go on a 2 day, one night trek the following day. We were out of clean clothes and needed more clothes so we went shopping for clothes. We caught a tuk-tuk over to [View Full Entry]

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Sleeping on the train - we had sleeper bunks was pretty comfy - better than some hostels. We arrived at about lunch time. We first headed to a lonely planet guest house but it was full. This is the problem with lonely planet, places they recommend seemed to be packed with people reliant on their guidebooks. We then consulted lets go our other guide book - and went to Libra Guesthouse. We were both so glad we did - rooms clean, nice and only 200 Baht. The staff were also extermely helpful. We then set out to find the 3 best [View Full Entry]

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Ahh back to chillin in Chiang Mai [View Full Entry]

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