Hello All - Sorry to be writing this rather back dated, but sadly that's how it goes sometimes!! We stayed on Sunday night at a homestay in a small village called Ban Prasat, about 40 mins away from Khorat, Thailand. This particular village has won several awards for its homestay program and it really shows. We all stayed in the village headman'...

Superbe. Le parc national de Khao Yai est a 3hrs de bus a l'Est de Bangkok et vaut clairement le detour. En tant qu'une des dernieres forets de mousson bien preservees du pays dans un paysage montagneux, il abrite une flore et une faune sauvage exceptionnellement variee et rare, visible a ceux qui s'y connaissent au long des quelques routes qui ...

Hey guys- So we came to the town of Pak Chong because it contains a giant national park. We stayed at a guest house almost in the middle of no where. However, the people who worked there were very nice and knowledgeable. They set us up with a full day of jungle trecking on our first day. We saw Makaks, Gibbons, Pit Viper, Elephants, Pythons, ins...

Hello again. We have just spent a wonderful couple of days, not in Pak Chong, which was horrible, but in a little guesthouse just outside called the Green Leaf Guesthouse from which we visited Khao Yai National Park. We took an overnight bus from Lampang to Nakhon Ratchasima, a big city in Northeast Thailand. The bus was brilliant. The seats wer...

This time I'm taking malaria pills. They're actually broadband antibiotics and they're supposed to help with infections and tick bites as well, so I'm okay with them. Started two days ago which resulted in insomnia but no other side effects and I will be taking them for two weeks after I leave the malaria zone, so basically whenever I feel I've ...

After a stop in Bangkok I went east into the jungle to Khao Yai National Park & that was so amazing! I did a day long trek where we saw gibbons, monkeys, snakes, scorpions, lizards, deer, & elephants! Wild elephants in the jungle! How cool is that?! I also saw the waterfall from the movie 'The Beach' with Leonardo DiCaprio so that was pretty coo...

Khao Yai National Park Took the ferry and bus back to Bankok last Monday from Koh Tao and spent a night in Bankok before heading to a town called Pak Chong which neighbours one of the greatest national parks in the world. It's Thailands oldest and most visited reserve covering about 200km sq and it's where the waterfall from 'the beach' is. Alth...

So a couple of days ago we got a bus from Luang Prabang all the way down to Vientianne, the capital of Laos. Here, we crossed on foot the Friendship bridge into Thailand where we got a train to Khorat. The train was a local one so it only cost us 64 Baht (roughly 90 pence) to travel half way down Thailand from the Laos border - brilliant! We spe...

After * lovely couple of d*ys spent touring the city *nd environs with our dist*nt but now de*rer rel*tions we decide th*t we'd better get moving. After *ll we've less th*n 5 months to get down to B*li *nd six countries to see in the me*ntime.  Yesterd*y morning w*s spent on jobs: e-m*ils; writing di*ry entries on the blog; putting our recent ph...

Today we took a trip into Khao Yai national park. Our guide was really enthusiastic and got more excited than we did when he spotted a great hornbill or gibbon high up in the trees. He had a powerful telescope which was great, it was really hard to even see the hornbills with the naked eye. We saw many animals and birds including gibbons, macaqu...