Hi all Here is our news from the past week - Travelled on an overnight train just over 12hrs to Chiang Mai last Friday (3rd). Stayed in a lovely guesthouse for one night before our trek began next day. Went out for a meal with our group - all lovely including two girls from Harrogate very randomly. Whilst we were in Chiang Mai there was a festival going on called the Yee Peng Loy Krathong Festival - dancers on stage and markets all around - lanterns being set off into the sky so that all above the sky was filled with hundreds of orange lights. Trek began the next day - stopped to do elephant riding on the way - slightly disconcerting when the man steering ours kept jumping off the neck and just letting it
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