Taraburi Resort Chiang Mai

... When I gave the women the update about the festival, their smiles were literally priceless. Ha its moments like that that make me realise how amazing my job is! The usual formalities of drinking tea with the head man concluded that the money from the festival will go towards the fish farm project and also buy a few more weaving looms to expand the weavery. Also more Branch Foundation news, we have our first official sponsor! The Gypsy Tea Room, where I saved all my ...

... for anything and even a taxi ride there costs more than a London cab would cost you on a rainy evening in London! So we were a bit p!ssed off with ourselves and thought we should have taken the direct train to Bangkok from KL (which is only what, 10 hours more than the 14 hours already spent on the train to Thailand). To make matters worse, the only available option from Krabi to Bangkok was a 10-hour bus ride that would get us into Bangkok at 5am. Although the ...

... left absolutely full to the brim. The day started off with a group trip to the local market... which is always interesting, no matter how many times you have been there. We shopped for all of the food for the day and learned about all the ingredients. We were able to make 6 dishes which we had for lunch and dinner. Hopefully we will be able to recreate some of the great food when we get back home!

We also took a tuk tuk to a beautiful waterfall. It ...

... cultural heartland of the country. It is a base from where one can trek the jungles, ride elephants and raft the rivers as well as meet local tribes. Its not all culture though, Chang Mai has its fair share of girly bars and ladyfellas (which I now call shims).

We spent the day swimming at a local hotel and agreed to meet some rather derranged local ex-pats in a bar for the South Africa - New Zealand rugby game that night. They looked like aged rockers with long hair and the ...

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We're really looking forward to going to Vietnam tomorrow we'll do a blog as soon as we can.

We also just want to say congratulations to Louise and Michael on the birth of their new baby boy! We cant wait to see him.

Bye from Chiang Mai!

P.s we tried again to upload some photo's but its still not working, its annoying because we have feckin loads to show you! We'll try again as soon as we can.

... not eat a little Kitty fishball it is NOT good!". I myself cooked something that even Noom came over and asked "What the f#@k is that?", now when a local guy asks that, I think we all knew it was going to be bad...it was! The next day we thought it might be prudent to actually see Chiang Mai having been there for two days. We walked around for a bit but there really isn't that much to see there so we stopped for smoothie. Then we heard a loud bang and the tuk tuk driver stood ...

... folded 4 fights and let them go at each other. It was pretty funny but very fake. The last fight of the night was the best which I believe were professionals. A kid (in picture with Jessie) and I Thai kid. They went at it pretty good and until a rib punch took out the Thai kid. I can say these guys looked really tall in the ring but as you can see they were not much taller than 5 7 or so. The next day was more of the same, class and back to the hostel. Only this time in class I was able ...

... associating with a mug like myself. at a busy little restaurant down on phrapokklao road, lara ordered papaya salad for entre, having never tried the fruit before and at my insistance - this is one of the most popular breakfast dishes in mexico, she devoured every piece before my own dish arrived. we all downed several soft drinks and juices during the balmy night meal since alcohol was prohibited as part of the buddhist lent anti-festivities. after an exhibition of curries ...

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Khantoke kveld
Så var det tid for en felles kulturkveld med klassen kl.7. Opplegget var i et stort åpent låve lignende hus. Der satt vi på puter rundt små lave bord og spiste mat vi ikke visste hva var fra felleskåler. Underholdningen var thai dansing til thai musikk. Noe av det kunne minne om dansingen fra filmen "Memoirs of a Geisha ". På slutten av kvelden var det pittelitt fyrverkeri. Andreas ble så mett av all maten og sa "Nå er jeg så mett, at hvis det hadde ...

... lost in the jungle), but it wasn't easy. Since public transportation is so cheap here, we don't walk much and we're both out of shape. But we were sure the panoramic vista from the top would be worth it. It was not; the peak was surrounded by trees. Once again nature obstructed my view. But it was a great day.

The ride down the mountain was a little scary at times in the setting sun, and it was definitely the coldest I'd been ...