Sawadee! After arriving from Sukhothai and hating Chiang Mai from first impressions, we have grown to love this place. At first it seems like a horribly busy, crowded, and fume infested city but once you begin to explore it, it becomes a really captivating place. We have been here for 5 days but 3 of those have been spent in the jungle, about an hour north of the city, trekking. The 3 day trek was incredible, pretty tough in parts but with so many waterfalls to cool you down it didn't matter. We spent the days in the jungle treading through thick forest and learning local thai ways whilst being amazed at the number of different birds, and the nights sat around a pretty cool campfire. We stayed in two different hill tribe villages with a ... read more

Hello! First week has flown by and has been so hectic! We spent the first two nights in Bangkok, enjoying the chaos that is khao san and it's surroundings. Luckily our hostel was in a more relaxed "back- packer" area as we found khao san a bit too touristy. We then headed west to kanchanaburi where we stayed on a floating bamboo guest house along the river kwai. Here we went elephant trekking and visited hell fire pass, the bridge over the river kwai and then went to an epic national park with amazing waterfalls: erawan falls. Ayuthaya (the ancient capital city) was our next stop where we spent the day wondering around amazing wats (temples) where the royalty used to live. It was a beautiful place (apart from the poor elephants being forced to cart ... read more