Bus back to Chiang Mai. Again we tried to get into a recommended guesthouse, Julie's, but again it's full. Popular place. Found somewhere else that did the job for one night anyway. We only have 2 nights in Chiang Mai so anything that has to be done has to be fast! Seems to me though that there's nothing really special about Chiang Mai, it's jus...

Julia is still emailling and plonking online so thought I'd try and catch up on another day a least! Doi Suh Thep was built on top of this hill after an elephant was set free with a relic of buddah and allowed to roam free. It finally settled down and trumpeted three times on top of the hill and so Doi Suh Thep was built there. I thought I'd put...

Hi everyone, Well when it rains it pours. It started with the nice french couple's son got whopping cough and they each proceeded to get sick as well. Then one of the staff, next it's me and then this young guy from Minnesota just got admitted to the hospital with high fever and I don't want to say what else! No fever for me but a definite sinus...

Today is the 7th day that I have spent in and around Chiang Mai. It's been a rather eventful week with some significant ups and downs. Arriving on the 14th I was thrown right into the heart of Songkran, the Thai New Year celebration. From a tourist standpoint it's basically a massive, multi day, water fight with plenty of drinks. I was having a ...

Hallo! Endlich gibt es wieder mal ein paar Fotos, und zwar Pauls. Ich konnte meine leider immer noch nicht runterladen. Die Weltreisenden Paul und Virginie waren jetzt eine knappe Woche zu Besuch und reisen heute weiter nach Myanmar. Wir hatten viel Spass zusammen und haben fast jeden Tag etwas unternommen: Wanderung auf den Doi Suthep, traditio...

So now we write to you from the land formally known as Siam (Thailand) and the crazy city of Chiang Mai (formally the kingdom of Lanna). We arrived here following an amazing 2 day slow (very slow actually) boat ride from Laos which brought us to the far North of Thailand to a place called Chiang Kong from where we took a 5 hr bus trip to Chiang ...

Well, it's been a lazy, hot day. I mostly spent my time feeling itchy--two nights ago, a swarm of mosquitos invaded our room. Laurel's been taking cooking classes all week, so they don't like her now-she's too spicy. As for me, I only took two days of cooking class and haven't been keeping up on my chili consumption. I look like I have some stra...

Well, here's another report from Chiang Mai. It's been awhile since the last one, I know, but that's because I haven't been doing much but eating and shopping. It turns out that Loi Krathong lasts for over a week here, so I got a repeat of the parade and krathong-ing and the hot air balloons the next day, minus the rain and plus about a few thou...