Well well folks, the night train was a great experience! Couldn't believe we actually got everything into our 'First Class' cabin - Orient Express it was not!! It was probably "First Class" back in the 70's, but nowadays it just means that you have the cabin to yourself (think the end of Live & Let Die, but without the room to fight a hook-han...

Okay, second attempt at a blog after that other stupid website kept refusing to log me in. Fingers crossed for this one! So, I am now back in Chiang Mai although just for the afternoon because we're getting the night train back to Bangkok at 5pm. The last few days were great. We did the trek, which was 25km in total so I really ached by the end ...

So after making it from Hong Kong to Bangkok we went to the Train Station to book our trip to Chaing Mai. Bad luck for us, as the sleepers were all full. We bought 2 tickets in second class for $50 dollars on the overnight train. We had a few hours before the train left so we went into Bangkok for some food and shopping. This place is crazy chea...

3ème jour. Petite marche d'une heure, puis descente de la rivière sur un radeau de bambous. On est 3 ou 4 par radeau (simple « planche » faite de grands bambous serrés ensemble par des liens végétaux), et le but du jeu est de rester debout et de ne pas couler...Pas de photos car l'appareil n'est pas étanche. Assez marrant au début, mai...

Arrived in the wee hours of the morning, slept a couple of hours, went walking around town, saw temple in centre, went to night market

To get to Chiang Mai Paul had the bright idea that we should travel as the Thai's do and get the train from Ayuthya. Well it usually takes 12 hours so we opted for overnight in a sleeper compartment, of course when we arrived at the train station at 9pm for our train it was delayed an hour and a half. When we finally boarded the train it was hil...

Ahhh, I now write to you from the cool, peaceful breezes of Chiang Mai. Lauren, Chris, and I set out on Friday with the anticipation that Mooknadda would be picking us up at 1:00pm, taking us to the government office for our National Park work permits, sharing with us one last dinner in Bangkok, and leaving us safely on the train to Chiang Mai. ...

I took the morning bus North to Chiang Mai, taking just over 11 hours to travel the 720kms. It was good to travel in Thailand during the day. Nearly all of my travel in the past has been on overnight busses, so this made a refreshing change, as we passed the local villagers working in the surrounding rice fields. Chiang Mai is the stop off point...