Baan Klang Doi Chiang Mai

... Reaffirms why I am doing what I am.

It’s an interesting feeling when all you have worked for becomes a reality, I do feel very fortunate but also I have put the blood and the sweat into getting here! Exciting times ahead. I will be sure to keep you updated. And please also keep me posted on how things are in the 'outside’ world. You are more than welcome to visit; there will always be at least a hammock free.

Lots of love to you all,

Oni xxx

... Starting off on the cocktails you can tell how this one goes, bar crawl with the most awesome live music and onto to the 'Spicy' nightclub we seem to just take over the stage, none of us seem to have any idea when we got back to the hotel, there is mentions of a 7am finish, what me, nooo?? Like a Manchester work night out but in hotter climes.

Oooooh dear small headache and a 14 hour trip back on the train to Bangkok, well worth it tho! The toilet on the train this time was ...

... a lighter with you to burn them off, it comes in handy.



While neither Greg nor I had to burn any leeches off, we definitively spent a lot of time scraping them off our shoes before they got to us and picking them off our socks. After yet another tiring day we finally arrived at a Karen tribal village. There is a small subgroup of the Karen's that are famous for wearing the brass rings around their neck but these villagers just wore heavy earings which stretched out their ...

... siccome il mio visto lavorativo e' stato accettato! ^^

Durante l'ultima settimana, l'ostello e' al completo, la maggior parte degli ospiti e' arrivata lo stesso giorno e sorprendentemente tutti sembrano andare d'accordo!
Anche il mio boss Noom e' tornato dalla sua vacanza in Laos ed ha deciso di organizzare un trekking di due giorni nella giungla e tutti gli ospiti erano entusiasti all'idea di ...

... hours together in the car, out of the car, in Chiang Rai,up with the Hill tribes, in Mae Sai,, at the white temple, which was the most beautiful thing all three of us had ever seen, at the hot springs,, at Burma - Mariel going in, Jasmine and I hiking a little mountain to look across into. We saw lots and learned lots, from each other. Mr. Boon learned the most. The discussions ranged from my prostitution career to Jasmine's specialty of STD ...

... and washed my face & hair, which felt almost as good as a two-hour nap. We did a little looking around at the shops - I snagged a multi-band compilation CD from Japan because it had a tune by The Brilliant Green on it that I didn't recognize (acknowledgement of the intro to TBG in Battlemonkey's journal - thanks B!); Tida got a phone card and called Naya with an update. For my part I sent off emails to my family and employers from a free(!) Internet cafe not far from ...

... We got pretty dirty as they were being cleaned. Rachel's elephant got really excited about bathtime and decided to spray himself with Rachel on his back using his trunk. It was such an awesome site to see the elephant loading up his trunk to drench Rachel. She was the only the one that was lucky enough to get that type of shower. We finally took them back up the hill at the end of the day to tuck them in and read a bedtime story for them, as this was their quarters for the night. Walking ...

... ferry boat across the Mekong River into Laos, get visas and then hop on a slow boat from there. So with everything taken care of and paid for I was happy. We eventually arrived at our destination 2 hours late (that's actually not bad what I know now) and the receptionist walks out to greet everyone. She says hello and for everyone to come and put there bags down, check in and get their key. What she should have said was "hello and welcome to hell ...

... nach Myanmar besichtigen, der ebenfalls aus mehreren Souvenirstrassen und vielen kleinen Shops bestand => "Please looki looki!". Naechster Stop war dann das Golden Triangle, Dreilaendereck, wo Laos, Myanmar und Thailand am Mae Sui River und Mekong zusammentreffen => frueher ein Ort, wo ordentlich mit Opium gehandelt wurde :-) Hier haben wir dann noch eine rasante Longboatfahrt ...

My driver, Ben, drove me from Chiang Mai up through the hill villages to Mae Sae where we stayed overnight. The next morning we got up early and headed to the Golden Triangle. I went to the Royal Opium Museum, which was facinating and engaging. Then it was a hard drive back to the airport in Chiang Mai.