For now, this will be a photo entry - read my comments below the pictures themselves. I will write more tomorrow while I'm waiting for my train, right now I have a bunch of people yelling a me to hurry up so they can "get their drink on". Oy! The jungle makes you a little crazy. Really. Enjoy the pictures, it's been a pretty surreal week! xox K

So now we leave Thailand to enter Laos. We've been in Chiang Mai for the past day or so, wandering about, visiting another temple and shopping (I bought a tiny laptop which I'm well pleased with!) Our highlight of being here was attending a Thai cooking course (yes ok, you can stop laughing now, I'll have you know we did very well - we didn't ha...

Hi everone, I just wanted to quickly update of our news . I am writing from the the town of Chiang Khong, situated right on the river Mekong, which constitutes the international border between the Kingdom of Thailand and the Peoples Democratics Republic of Laos. We have just arrived here from Chiang Mai today, and it is pouring heavily in this s...

A twelve hour train ride to the northern hills of Thailand was reminiscent of some old hollywood movie with porters making up beds and falling asleep to the rocking motion and clickety clak sounds of the rails rushing beneath us... It's beautiful up here and seems so peaceful after the crazyness of Bangkok...night market to die for, hundreds of ...

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despues de pasar la noche en el village , comenzamos a bajar y hacer el tour con los elefantes, luego bajar en rafting de bamboo pronto mas informacion

Christmas in Thailand. Wow.  Different.  I have been describing it to people as if Christmas and Halloween had an illigitimate child...born in july...and they called it "Christmas in Thailand."  Because Thai's call them selves Christians...but aren't really practicing Christians...Christmas is all for show.  People do buy som...

Chiang Mai is Thailands second city after Bangkok, in the north of the country. It has hundreds of temples, many of them were built in the 14th century and have been recently renovated. The surrounding hills are home to many different tribes, similar to those we came across in China, but here they have become something of a tourist attraction. o...

Sadly took our leave of our Bagus Place paradise waving goodbye to Claire, Ajay and Yono and the crew and the crystal clear turquoise blue waters, golden sands and jungle of beautiful Tioman Island for the short hop to Singapore. Luckily our flight was on time which meant that the dash from Seletar Airport (the smaller Singapore airport) to Chan...

"Thai food is like chinese food, but with and extra kick." - The Lonely Plannet Finally, a nice day. We're still in Chiang Mai, enjoying the sights and sounds of this delightful city. Bev and i splurged today and took a Thai cooking course at the very well respected "Chiang Mai Cookery School, Est. 1993" and what an experience. Definately worth...