Around 6:30am we arrived in Surat Thani and had Pad Thai for breakfast in good Thai fashion. Although the train swaying along the tracks was relaxing, unfortunately the top bunk was not a good choice, so I'm hoping I'll get a better sleep tonight. There's bed curtains on the train, but the top ones don't reach the ceiling and there's fully brigh...

So, after the kayaking trip came back to Chiang Mai for a night, then went up to Pai and Soppong with some Texas guys I met kayaking. Had an eventful ride up to Pai (our minibus broke down) and 10 of us had to hitch the rest of the way in the back of a pickup! Pai was pretty cool...kind of a hippyish town with lots of foreigners, but it could be...

Soooo... Have not updated in awhile. It's hard to think back to everything I've been doing! Have basically been in Chiang Mai and the north a week and a half now... Hung out a bunch in Chiang Mai, walked around, went to the night markets, took a great cooking class at an organic farm. Learned how to make pad thai, papaya salad, spring rolls, chi...

Entry 2 of a trip titled: Thailand 2006

Conservation volunteer work in Thailand

Wednesday 18th January 2006 Woke up around 6.30am and got ourselves ready for the bus to pick us up at 7am to Khao Sok National Park. It only turned out to be a minibus there and only had a few passengers on it, so was quite a comfortable ride for once. We didn't have anywhere booked to stay, but heard from a lady on the bus that Art's Riverview...

Hey guys! We've just spent four amazing days hiking in the Jungle at the National Park. We did a 15km hike(I've got the blisters to prove it..owwy..haha) up to a waterfall and swimming hole. It was soo beautiful. I can't even describe it. I loved the jungle. Everything seemed to be magnified. The bugs were huge!!! At night we saw fireflies (it w...

Apparently we were walking the wrong way to get off the platform at Surat Thani. It was probably a scam, but hey, at 6:15am you're not really keen to be leading the way. People holding signs were shouting and gesturing for us to go the other way - so we did - along with all the other backpackers. We went to a man holding a sign that said Khao So...