Maekok River Village Resort Chiang Mai

... teacher in our group) and would not hesitate to do it again. Maybe something bigger next time. Kilimanjaro???? Anyone up for it? I don’t see Miss Barry with her hand up, but that’s okay. She did really well. Chiang Mai is awesome, definitely worth a visit!

Both: Back to Bangkok for us now, before heading off to Bali in a few days.

We miss you all, but don’t worry...... we are having an awesome time!

Love Rob and Beckie

xxxxxxx

... elephants can be trained through positive reinforcement. That is a brand new concept here. The heat was starting to rise, but luckily the ice cream man showed up...just in time! We were shown to our rooms to shower and change. Our room is 1 of 3 built in a circle around a large tree made of bamboo in traditional Thai fashion with a straw and bamboo walkway to 2 bathrooms. (Western toilets, which I wasn't expecting!!:) Our room is very basic with just a ...

... pear shaped. My leg (which had been injured two months earlier while training for the London Marathon) was a bit sore but holding up OK throughout the trekking. We finished rafting and stopped right where we got out to eat, and it just so happened that there was a punch bag hanging from a tree. As a kickboxer, I couldn''t resist having a go while we waited to be picked up. I did a couple of roundhouses and it felt ok, although there was a bit of pain so I took an ...

We were up early on Wednesday morning and left promptly with 7 other fellow 'trekkers' for the jungle. We briefly stopped at a local market to pick up the necessities required for the trip and then drove for about 45 minutes on what can only really be described as a pick-up truck (the corners were slightly hairy - I was at the back so clinging on - was a bit of a white knuckle ride!) We were dropped off at the side of a road and then began our ...

... faire tous les doigts comme on a fait aux orteils en pressant d'abord la jonction du poigner puis descendre en cercles jusqu'aux doigts et plier le bout et relâcher. De nouveau massage de la main. Mantra 43 Prendre la main de l'autre et tourner dans un sens 5 fois puis 5 fois dans l'autre 5 fois aussi. Mantra 44 Toujours en prenant la main de l'autre, tirer sur le bras 5 secondes puis 1à avec plus de pression et de nouveau 5 moins fort. Appuyer 10 secondes une main sur l'épaule ...

... fun but the novelty wares off after about a nanosecond! We then began our tekking..... I'm not quite sure what I expected but it bloody hard work After about 10 minutes I was wondering what I had let myself in for. We walked mostly along narrow tracks through the forests, sometimes crossing streams and stopping to paddle in the waterfalls (way too cold to swim)! The last stretch was the hardest, it was so steep we had to pull ...

... in the backpacker district near Koh San Road..........absolutely packed with backpackers, lots of 18 to 21 year old gap students. A very different atmosphere to Asia I have seen so far on this trip. Plently of portly, middle aged men with gorgeous Thai girls on their arm. I enjoyed the fast internet and having everything I needed at my fingertips! They even have a Boots pharmacy there! I joined up with the organised trip that I had booked through Canbodia and Laos ...

Easy flight to Chiang Mai. The driver was there holding a sign with my name and he took me to the Lai Thai Guesthouse. Everything was exactly the same as the last time I had been there. I seriously had no plans for Chiang Mai, I just knew there were many tours you could book, and luckily my hotel had a tour lady that accepted credit cards ( a common theme for this trip!). So I booked a same day tour of an elephant camp and an orchid ...