Hi, We are nearing the end of our time in Thailand now but have had a really great time. We thoroughly enjoyed our cooking course, althought I'm not quite sure we'll get the same results when we get home, we'll have a try though. We had a great time on the 2 ay tour we did of north west thailand. We were with a really nice group of people and all got on well. We spent the first day visiting a waterfall and then doing a 4 hour trsk throught the rainforest, I thought it was quite difficult but mark found [View Full Entry]

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Why hi there donkeys! It is i - back with the jungle blog! Holy moly - let me just say that i have never encountered a jungle fraught with so much peril - SOOO many hairy canaries but jolly good fun! I'm going to try my best to keep this brief as i am literally COOKING - frying my melons off here in Chiang Rai - very chilled little town up North but damn it's hot! We went to this cool wat today (what what you say...wat meaning temple for all you non speaking Thai folk like myself) - i bought [View Full Entry]

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El treking se merecería mas de un solo capitulo, de todas las experiencias que pasamos, pero no quiero aburriros y mas aun aburrirme a mi mismo haciendo esto mas largo de lo que ya va a ser. Quien quiera que cierre la pagina.... yo no puedo! Comenzamos muy pronto por la mañana en una habitación sin aire acondicionado para ir al templo blanco, la verdad que era de lo mas moderno y esta diseñado por un artista conocido en Tailandia que se vio salvado por la religión budista en un momento de su vida y tiene pensado diseñar y construir 7 [View Full Entry]

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Nos despertamos a las 4 de la mañana para coger el avión a las 6 de la mañana que nos llevaba a Chang Rai, al norte de Tailandia para hacer un treking de 2 días Nada mas llegar conocimos a nuestra guía para esos días que se llamaba “Know”. Desde el mismo aeropuerto nos fuimos a ver una plantación de té donde nos dio una señora que daba toda la sensación que estaba pedo todo tipo de te.... y visitamos también como lo hacían, la plantación, secar como lo recogían,... después fuimos a visitar el Triángulo de oro que es el [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone I am really in Luang Prabang, Laos, but more on that later........ First I will let you know what I've been up to since my last blog. After spending 3 days in Bangkok, it still isn't my favourite city in the world, however there are a few things I've noticed. The first is Bangkok's colourful taxis. They come in a range of bright colours, Yellow, Red, Orange and Purple, but the vast majority are HOT PINK !!! Most unusual. However they do stand out in the maze of traffic in Bangkok's streets, so maybe there is a good reason. [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we left ChiangMai at 7:30 AM to go to ChiangRai about 180 km North East. There is beautiful scenery (mostly mountains) along the way. Actually, there is some similarities between Thai and Vietnamese language such as Doi and DDo^i meaning hill, Ban and Ba?n meaning village. First we stopped at Hot Springs followed by white Rongkhun Temple in ChiangRai. After that we headed North to Mae Sai which is the most northern point of Thailand. This is a border town between Thailand and Myanmar. We decided not to cross to Burma since it costs 500 Baht per person for a [View Full Entry]

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Day one in Thailand was spent wandering the streets of Chiang Rai in the rain (literally has been raining buckets since our arrival) for hours. We had drifted aimlessly, finding we had been walking in complete circles until we resorted to cabbing home. Unfortunately, this language barrier is causing major confusion. After lunch at the Hostel we took a cab out of the city to go to the Rong Khun Temple, which is supposedly the most extravagant buddhist temple in Chiang Rai. We were NOT dissapointed, the temple was fantastic. They requested we wear white wraps over our shorts out of [View Full Entry]

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hey beautiful people, here are some photos. we'll have to tag them another time. update coming in a day or two. cheers, a/d [View Full Entry]

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Well folks, after a brutal amount of time flying and eating rather disgusting plane food we have arrived! We got tossed around by Taxi drivers until finally one knew where it was we were heading. He drove on the wrong side of thee car as well as the wrong side of the road and we arrived at about 9 o clock last night. It is VERY hot, very muggy and rainy, according to our Scottish roommate it was sunny yesterday though, so all is good. Tonight we are heading to the night bizarre which starts at 5 and goes till 11. [View Full Entry]

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Just got home from our 3 day trek through the jungle!! You'll just have to see the pictures to describe the trip, but it was none other than a difficult, hot, humid, wet.... exciting, fascinating, gorgeous, and an incredible time. It's this kind of travel.. visiting and seeing parts of the world that are nowhere near anything one would ever see near home... that are nearly unreal. Compared to some of the other trekking I've done, it was a fairly easy hike (of course, uphill is always difficult no matter how high or how long it is)... we stopped along the [View Full Entry]

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