Except for a few very, very hungover mornings, I don't think I've stopped smiling since arriving in Thailand. Today is the last day of my two weeks with an Imaginative Traveller tour group and it's been completely amazing. We began our travels heading north from Bangkok to Chiang Mai on the first of three night trains. After a short stay in Chiang Mai we were off for a three day hilltribe trek around northern Thailand. It was the most amazing three days. We hiked, rode elephants and took bamboo rafts down the river. We stayed in two different villages and though we were a little seperated from the villagers it was really interesting to see the villages were water buffallo wander around freely with the chickens and pigs. W'd hike in the day and spend the
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