After a short day in Ayuttaha where we just chilled out by the pool we boarded an overnight train to Chiang Mai where we only had a few small cockroaches to contend with and I think the worst part of the trip was being woken up at 5am for a breakfast we didn't even want. The waiter's and waitresses on the train don't get a salary, they only get ...

The final day of trekking we had a short 2 hour trek to a Karen village and there had a 1 1/2 hour elephant ride. After this we had another short trek of 1 hour to the river to take a bamboo raft down the river to the final location before heading home. The trekking was absolutely amazing, we had such a good time. As there were only 4 of us inst...

Sailing down the Mekong wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I really wasn't looking forward to spending 2 whole days on the boat, but it was better than being on a bus I suppose. It was pretty cold on there in the mornings, so got all wrapped up in my sleeping bag. Pretty entertaining watching 4 -5 people in their sleeping bags trying to shuffle u...

I'm going back to Chiang Mai on May 2nd for a year or more. I hope everyone has a good year and has a lot of fun. Keep in touch and take care of yourselves. Peace and Love. Well I made it back to Chiang Mai after about 38 sleepless hours including an overnighter in the Bangkok airport. But it's all good because I slept for like 18 hours when I g...

Una de las cosas que nos gusta hacer es sentarnos hay donde haya concurrencia y mirar... observamos los movimientos de la gente, turistas y no turistas... y nos pasamos tiempo asi... una hora, o dos... tiempo de ese que nos sobra :-)) No creemos que exista la jubiliación y/o pensionistas... la gente mayor, muy mayor, trabaja... en sus puestos de...

This week marked the Thai Buddhist holiday of Loy Krahtong. I've heard many explanations for the meaning behind this festival. The most ironic being that it is the way to apologize for polluting the earth, by sending lit lanterns and candles into the sky (where many get caughtt in trees) or lit candles into the river! The most plausible explanat...

Hello. We arrived in Chiang Mai at 6.30am today after a 12 hour bus journey, which was not from hell as previously anticipated. It claimed to be a luxury bus, and maybe in Thailand it is, however, this was slightly misleading. As the photo may show. We left Bangkok at 6pm on Sun night and travelled through the night. We met some really nice girl...

LIFE IN CHIANG MAI: Part 8 February 27, 2006 > The Chinese Opera Visits Chiang Mai; Or; "Be sure to bring your earplugs with you to the opera, dear." > A New And Different Kind Of Massage Parlor Every February, a few weeks after the Chinese New Year celebrations have died down, the local Chinese community holds a(nother) festival, this one...

hello everyone how are yeee? i'm literally just out of the ****in jungle and it was one hell of a good trip. on our first day we hiked about 3 hours through some pretty huge and fierce jungle growth. we got our machetes out and cut and slashed our way towards our first night in a local village with thai tribal folk, where they tried to hack me t...

After our hectic time in Pai, we returned to Chiang Mai, effectively the northern capital of Thailand. Apart from a bit more night market strolling (where we bought each other's Christmas presents up to a maximum of about a fiver each - times are hard!), our main activity was doing a day tour to an elephant sanctuary. There are a lot of tourist ...