I left Pai Saturday, and went by bus to Chiang Mai then to Bangkok. In Bangkok I met Nina again, she had tried to get a ticket on the same bus all the way, but we ended in different minibuses. So I had company all the way to Bangkok - although we slept most of the way. At six in the morning we woke up when the bus stopped and somebody shouted “Last stop Bangkok! Get out!”. I had no idea where I was, but we were just 200 metres from Khao San road, actually where we were supposed to! I [View Full Entry]

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I arrived Pai on monday. My plan was to just stop over for a night. I got stuck. I have a really nice bungalow, a swimmingpool 200 metres from where I live, I work out at TrueBee Muay Thai gym every morning, have met some nice people - and I have a really good time. Now it´s friday, and tomorrow I really have to leave to be sure to catch my flight from Bangkok on monday. I don´t really trust everything to go smooth all the way. So tomorrow I have my last muay thai training, then I leave 13:00 with [View Full Entry]

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I wanted to go to Soppong to visit the Cavelodge, I´ve heard from a lot of people that it is a great place to stay and they have hiking, trekking, caving and kayaking trips. I wanted to go there for trekking for a day or two. I arrived Soppong, and that´s really just a few guesthouses and a small market by the road. I tried to get a taxi from there to the lodge, but it was no way I was paying 300 baht for a car. I asked a nice woman at a restaurant where I had lunch, and she [View Full Entry]

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When I had finished my week at the elephant park I went back to Chiang Mai. I found a nice hotel with a swimming pool, and stayed there with some of the other people from the park. The Sunday night in town was pretty good, going to the market with the same people I spent the week with. My days were fully booked, and the nights I met up with some of the elepeople and had dinner and walked in the markets. Monday I had my first cooking class at May Kaidees restaurant. We were just four girls, and Duan took [View Full Entry]

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Just a bunch of photos of the elephants. Take a look at the videos - the babies are so cute :) (videos by Harald - thanks for letting me use them) [View Full Entry]

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Once or twice a week elephants are taken even further into the jungle and up in the mountains, to elephant haven. It is a really beautiful spot. We were a group of thirteen walking with the elephants up there and spend the night under a roof on a pole floor. Walking with the elephants are not very hard, they are really slow! But I like to see the way they walk - they are not a bunch of maniacs stamping trough the woods. They carefully put down their feet each step and stops to eat everywhere. Jodie at the park told [View Full Entry]

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Photos and more from the park coming up - have to get back to pack and go to bed. Tomorrow I´m off to Soppong during the day. I know where the bus leave, but not when. A guy in my guesthouse where supposed to find the times for me. When I asked when the bus left he said around ten. I said that it was supposed to be four buses to soppong every day. He answered: ok, then around ten, around twelve, around two and around four. I have no idea if this is a fact or what he thinks. Í [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in the park in a kind of caotic day, because a big group was staying an extra day. So we were shown around the park and had a lot of information the first day, then we were stowed three people in small rooms for the first night. Very basic accommodation with bed and mosquito net, and nothing else in the room, except the rats. Keep all food and toilet requisites outside! But my bed was great, and I slept very well all week. Funny thing, at home I can´t sleep if things are not as I´m used to, here [View Full Entry]

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Monday morning I was picked up to go to Elephant nature park. I like the way you are picked up whatever you are doing, just tell them where you live, and you will get whereever you are supposed to in some way. After picking up more people around the city we went to the main office for registration and to pay and get tshirts. Like everywhere else things looked pretty unorganized, we signed on four different lists to four different people, and when we asked when we where leaving the office none of them had an idea. Soon was the answer. [View Full Entry]

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My stay at Sinbi is over now, and I really wish I could stay there longer. I enjoyed the company of Nina, Andre and Halvor, all three of them are really easy to get along with. I really enjoyed the area, quiet and nice and not crowded with people everywhere - as long as you stayed away from Kata and Patong. The trainers were great, and fun listening to. Aaaauuuwheeeeeee! BREEEAAAAK - ten pushups! (the first time we thougt “What? He said break!” - but break means pushups or situps). NO - *smack*. Wait wait wait wait - begin begin begin [View Full Entry]

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