Holiday Garden Chiang Mai

Good evening everybody, we are writing this blog entry from our hotel in Chiang Mai after another eventful couple of days! After staying on the Khaosan Rd which can only be described as mental, we caught a flight up to Chiang Mai - not until Em realised halfway to the airport that her passport was still behind the counter of the hotel - so 50 baht and one taxi ride later we were back where we had started to find said missing passport!!! Chiang Mai is gorgeous - set in foothills of the Thai ju...

..... never annoy a Tuk Tuk driver. We had a bit of a bartering session with a tuk tuk driver last night and by the time we decided to get in he obviously had it in for us!! With venom in his eyes he drove like a lunatic and by the end of the journey Ben was sweating profusely!!!

We have had an amazing time in Chaing Mai. Our cooking school finished today and it has been a fantastic experience in which we feel we have learnt alot! It is still extremely hot and humid so we have been co...

So after seeing every hour on the clock on our sleeper train, we eventually arrived in Chiang Mai train station to be greeted by a man who wasn't really too sure of what to do because our lift had not yet arrived. He ran off (still dont know where to) and a 4x4 turned up with the logo of our hotel place. The 2 guys in the truck were Tom (from Belgium, but mother was american and father was english) and Greg (Paris, but studied in Brighton.). Other members of the trekking group were Florian (P...

ETA Chang Mai 7am. Sleeper trains...a challenge for the freakishly tall people, although very logical. Its still light out when we leave Bangkok. So many people wandering along the train tracks, off home after work? Sitting down along the edge of the train tracks, eating dinner. Reflection of the counties wealth. In the city people have little communities throughout, their temporary homes made up upon construction sites, under bridges, alongside rail tracks. The smells of the excrement strong...

The 20th - this was the day we arrived in Chiang Mai - a nice city but impossible to cross the roads; the cheapest internet in Thailand (10Baht an hour), and the best hot chocolate I've ever tasted (Wawee Coffee). We were collected at the train station and brought to the Holiday Garden View - a stupid name for a guesthouse - but the people were friendly and the rooms gorgeous. The next day, we were introduced to our trekking guide, a thai man called Koko, and set off on the trek the next day....

Nun erfolgt also der erste Text-Eintrag um euch etwas mehr als nur die Reiseroute zu berichten. Leider ist der Dateitransfer in diesem InternetCafe gesperrt, so dass ich nicht auf meinen CardReader zugreifen kann um meine Erlebnisse zu veranschaulichen. Nachdem ich in Bangkok gelandet bin, gings mit dem Bus in die unter Travelern beruehmte KhaoSan Road. Die Eindruecke der Fahrt waren einerseits umwerfend, andererseits erschreckend! Direkt neben der Strasse befanden sich die etwas schaebigen W...