Art Ann Hotel Chiang Rai

... and sunglasses than handmade goods, but we still enjoyed the cafes, bars and bustle, and managed to buy ourselves a few treats. We also found ourselves a fantastic bar - TeePee Bar, filled with strange memorabilia, wigs and the eccentric Mr Tuu, and a constant stream of videos of live music acts - and had a couple of great nights there.

Other than a visit to the Hilltribe museum, we did fairly little other than look for a way to ...

... A big shame.

Anyway I’m drifting again. The updates from Vietnam (LOVED IT!) will be coming soon along with plenty of pics. The only bit in between Nam and getting here was a couple of weeks in Chiang Mai where I took a course in the Nuad Bo Rarn ancient Thai massage. It was extremely testing, immensely rewarding and thoroughly enjoyable, so if anyone fancies a free ...

... bus came we were both quite bored and annoyed at the woman who had sold us the ticket. But the journey was fine, air con etc. At one point the police stopped us and got on, looked important and got off. When we got to Chiang Mai we found the guesthouse we wanted to go to was full, but walked down the road following a man with a plan to the Banana GH which is fine enough, shall leave our Chiang Mai adventures for next time, oh and there have been adventures! Lots of Love Emmas

... time, indtil vi kom ud af fjerene. Efter morgenmaden gik det igen videre. På vejen kom vi forbi en elefantcamp. Der stod 20 elefanter og svingede med snablerne og forsøgte at få turister til at købe lækkerbidskener til dem, som f.eks. sukkerrør, bananer, majskolber og andet guf. Elefanterne stod midt ude i solen uden skygge og med elefantstol på ryggen. Vi så dem aldrig få noget rigtig mad - og kun een gang fik et par af dem noget vand. Det var svært at vide ...

For much of last week I was checking out the FreeSchools in the Fang area. FreeSchools World Literacy is a Canadian charity that gives education to those that otherwise don't get it in Thailand and India. Mirror Foundation runs the Thailand side of things for them. Sue (the director of FreeSchools), Judy, Jo, Jadad, O, Mai, myself and some other volunteers went to check things out and plan for the future. Here are some pictures

... swear I felt the difference. Happy in my heart somehow, light in soul I was. After meals we don't feel bloated and ailing of greasiness like on my other trips, where on reds and seafood fried and crispy feasted I must. In the winter nights, warm flowing waters took an hour to fill the outdoor tub. To which after I soaked in tranquility with my head ...

Quick and easy flight to Chang Rai. It was late and we were brought to one of the only hotels in the place. Not too expensive so we were happy bunnies. We got up in the morning with a plan of getting the bus to the Boat just across the boarder into Laos. So Craig and Clive went to investigate. We found out the bus leaves every hour to Chiang Kong and it takes three ...

... and muddy and the other had a little less water and was harder. I have put the sticky rice in the harder soil and the normal rice in the wet plot. The planting occurred on 29 May 2551. 13 July. It has been about 1.5 months since we started our farm. The rice is now ready to be transplanted into a larger field. We pulled the rice out of the old soil, cut the top off and replanted it in new soil, more spread out than previously. Why ...

... We even walked the whole street to check out other restaurant and needn't have bothered, for once we had been given a good steer by a taxi driver. After an excellent dinner we walked over the road and found a taxi outside the Wangcombe hotel and returned to our suburban retreat. Well, almost, we had to check out the bar opposite first but luckily it was such an obvious rip off joint that we were back in the hotel not five minutes after leaving the taxi. We were no ...

... would never see. That's the difference between backpacking and holidaying..we don't like to consider ourselves as tourists (even tho i know we are) but we like to mix with the culture more well at least i do! So im so glad i didn't take one of the tourist tours of trekking and tribes because i did just fine myself and found it much more rewarding in return. I also heard that some of the tribes, particular the Longneck tribe (one where the women wear several rings ...