The guide returned at 6am to give us our breakfast and take us out looking for gibbons, unfortunately that hadn't been sighted so we settled for watching a monkey in a tree near out house having a feast. The rest of the day was spent hiking to other zip lines and treehouse around the forest, a great way to spend the day. Got plenty of videos too so I hope to upload them soon. After dinner the guide again left us to it and we zipped around for a while then watched the freaky insects arrive. This time a huge hornet [View Full Entry]

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Wow! Sitting here in a treehouse 40m off the ground looking at some seriously amazing views over the rain forest! Treehouse 3 is to be our home for the next two nights, I'm teamed with my American friends so it's worked out very well. We started the day with a kind of safety brief video and then were bundled into vans for the 2 hour ride to the outskirts of the Laos forest, 1 hour offroad and another hours hike took us deep in where we came across the first zip line to treehouse 1. It's very scary the first [View Full Entry]

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Annelien and I left pai taking a minibus to chiang krong and what a ride that was! The driver was a complete lunatic weaving round twisting mountain roads at a fenominal speed, over taking on blind bends, the g forces on your body going from hard left to hard right literally every 20 seconds for a good 2 hours before stopping for a toilet/sick break. Everyone kinda flopped off the 15 seater and fell to the ground still spinning. A kind german girl went around handing out travel sickness tablets which I've never needed before but felt unable to decline on [View Full Entry]

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Been in pai since yesterday afternoon, seems like a real nice chilled out place, more like a holiday destination than a town of thailand. I guess it must be judging by the amount of thais we watched buying the usual crap at the night markets. I was having dinner with my new Dutch friend Annelien who I met on the bus out here from chiang mai. She has just finished her law studies and is due to start work for a government oraganisation after travelling south east Asia. Went out for drinks last night and met a lovely couple of Irish [View Full Entry]

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1st November 2009 I'm laying on a hammock out on the roof top of julies guesthouse back in chiang mai. A beer in one hand and a badly rolled bannana leaf cigar thing in the other. There is a beautiful sky tonight due to the Thai festival currently bein held. All the locals buy or make huge hot air ballon style lanterns and set them off flying into the sky with the breeze. There's fireworks going off sporadically too and it's amazing to watch. I decided not to venture out to see the millions of floating lanterns down at the river [View Full Entry]

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31st oct 2009 Sitting in a quiet farmyard in a village called mejam in northern Thailand. Yesterday I started my bike trip off roaring it up into the mountains. We began at 8:30 from julies guesthouse, I was sitting eating breakfast thinking I'd made a big mistake in booking this biking trip as they said that there were no other people signed up and it would be just the guide and me. Ped, my guide picked me up and took me to his company office which was a shed in the centre of chiang mai. I was told to check my [View Full Entry]

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29th oct 2009 So I'm currently heading out of bangkok on yet another over night bus, my 4th since arrive here in Thailand. This one cost 350 baht (about £7), lasts 12 hours and takes me to the north of the country - Chiang mai. It's been a very normal feeling couple of days which has suprised me, since my last stint on khao San road left me mentaly broken and running for the most relaxing island I could find. My current blarzay attitude gives a relatively shocking realisation that - I have changed! I must now have gotten used to [View Full Entry]

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25th oct 2009 Well I'm on the road again (well actually a boat), feels good to get going again after a full 2 weeks in paradise just diving and chilling out. Meesha has convinced me to join her in khao sok national park, totally opposite direction to where I'm supposed to be going, which is north! But hey ho, I'm easily led, but also intriegued by the sound of the place, a proper tropical rainforest. Gonna be a full day and night of travel I think which will be harsh, hope it's worth it, but then they do say it's not [View Full Entry]

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Day 7 05:45 An early one this morning, damn them bloody scooters!! Lol Lukily I went to bed about 22:45 so I got a fair few hours kip as there was no party outside my room all night :o) Yesterday was pretty packed with the course, had morning of theory with a test at the end, it's not too strict like school or owt, Caroline and I even managed to compare answers and changed one each, we make a good team! Becky is starting to get on my nerves a bit, reminds me too much of a girl o knew back [View Full Entry]

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Day 6 08:30 Another sleepless night. They told me this was the quiet side of the island! So many screaming scooters around here that ferry the drunkun idiots around at all times of the night. Westerners seem to ruin every little bit of paradise I've seen, I guess I'm just in the wrong hostel maybe, there is a bar at the end of my road afterall, Once the course is over I shall find another. Had the classroom theory for the scuba yesterday afternoon, seems like alot to it but probably something that will become natural underwater, mainly just alot of [View Full Entry]

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