Dragon Lake View Resort Chiang Mai

... both on land and water, and include some of thefinest golfing, game fishing, and scuba-diving anywhere in Asia. After dark, Pattaya offers all the allure and magic of a truly vibrant nightlife with a spectacular variety of restaurants, night clubs, bars, discotheques, cocktail lounges and cabarets. Pattaya can be brash, bold, beautiful and bucolic, and offers everything and authentic international beach ...

... t *ll the fuss w*s *bout. We booked only * night in P*tt*y* for the weekend.

When we *rrived in Jomtien Be*ch, it w*s very busy *nd the be*ch w*s p*cked. Fr*nkly, it w*s not the cle*nest be*ch in the world by *ny me*ns. But no worries bec*use, err, we were there more for the soci*l *spect th*n the be*ch. So we unlo*ded our stuff *nd quickly m*de our w*y to the ne*rest pub for * refreshing pint. We bellied up to the b*r, ordered * p*ir ...

... echarles asustandolos con una serpiente de plastico
atada a un largo palo, pero la medida no dura mas de unos minutos. Finalmente
llegamos a Chiang Mai, la segunda ciudad de Tailandia, justo a tiempo
para el festival de Yee Peng. Es dinamica y cosmopolita, pero de dimensiones
mas abarcables que Bangkok. Su gran multitud de wats no estan en ruinas,
sino que son centros monasticos muy activos. El ...

... finished trekking for the second day, at around half past five. Dinner was at 7, so we mingled until then, hanging clothes to dry (but they only got wetter in the humidity), chatting quietly, some of us doing some washing, some of us sleeping on the big stone that protruded from the river, until dinner finally arrived. It was worth waiting for again, potatoes with pepper and carrots, with some type of curry and some other type of stewy something, and as much rice as you could ...

... her head forward and me tumbling with it. I never actually fell off the elephant, though I thought I was about to several times (and I know my friends wished I had).
The ride itself was gorgeous, the jungle scenery magnificent: so dense and lush and deep deep green leaves blanketing the rolling hills beneath low hanging blue clouds of fog. Northern Thailand is covered in this kind of dense forest and is absolutely stunning following the rainy season.
(We would soon ...

... me with beaming smiles and respectful wai's and bowing of the head. Over the next few days I would get up at 6.30 am to have breakfast with the children an see them off to school, have meetings with Kham Ong about what was urgently needed, donor updates, planning and also helped her will an implication for further study. 

Kham Ong is amazing, she is 25 years old, has a university qualification from inside Burma. And recently did a course on project management to help her own ...

... have conceived multiple business plans to keep ourselves comfortable. One such plan is to sell refreshments on top of Phnom Bakheng at sunset. We could call the bar "7th Heaven" and locate it on the 7th tier of the Hindu inspired temple. A glass of c******nay or Fanta would have greatly enhanced our experience and quenched our thirst after trudging up the hill and stairs for the viewing.

in addition to our entrepreneurial endeavors ...

... my drunken state i was trying to decide if I could take on the tiger in a fight. Luckerly this was never tested as we had only booked for the market (But i reckon i would have won). Floating market was pants, like leeds indoor market but on sewers. The tour guide said we would be in a James Bond boat, but i dont recall James Bond being sat in a boat which was on the verge of sinken every time he made the slightest movement and him being **** wet through by the end of the trip. So ...

... straight men. The only giveaway that the performers were men (even despite the tight sequined leotards) was the atrocious, uncoordinated, ungraceful dancing. The show was funny nonetheless, especially the part when one of the ugly ladyboys caught Chris's eye and made him part of the show by proceeding to hop on his lap and leave a huge man-lipstick mark on his bald head. Altogether entertaining though I don't know if I'd recommend it if you ...

... generally like him - the Hooty's bar (or "pussy club" as the picture shows) we went to had Thai girls coming up to him with notes, one of them reading "I have met you many time before. I think tonight is the night. Let's do it." But that night was not her night, sorry. That's about it for the sure truths. As for the maybe-truths/half-truths/un-sure-about- truths: 1. He's been in multiple bar fights, he claims, including one on New Year's Eve which one of the strippers corroborated ...