Ayatana Hamlet

8.30am pickup for our day's cooking class out on a local farm. After picking the others up we were taken to the headquarters in town where we did a quick meet and greet with the rest of the group and also where we chose the menu for the day. We were ...

We'd booked the 'lifestyle adventure trek’ for today and actually didn’t have high hopes as it sounded very touristy and at only £20 each we couldn’t imagine the quality of everything they said we’d be doing, but at the same time ...

Up and by the pool at 8.00am to ensure we got the best sunbeds as only two that maximise the sun throughout the day! Then spent the day lying on them! Nikki managed a 20 minute swim and that was about the extent of our activity oh along with moving over ...

Anorther 'small' breakfast before our 9am pickup to go trekking and mountain biking in the rainforest mountains East of Chiang Mai. We got dropped at the depot in town where we got kitted out in helmet and gloves and had to sign waiver forms.   ...

Alarm at 5.30am - yuck!! Due for a pick up at 6.15 – as we waited the hotel organised a breakfast pack up for us. Our lift arrived for our 'Flight of the Gibbon' trip – zip-wiring in the rainforest with almost 5 miles of wire in total (almost ...

Had a bit of a lie in and then took advantage of another hotel's impressive breakfast (cereal, omelette and fruit and pancakes; adding pad thai this morning felt right having had such massive breakfasts for a week now but when Mark got a second helping ...

Spent most of the day travelling to Chiang Mai in the far north of Thailand. Our pickup from Ko lanta was at 11.30am so we made the most of the morning by getting up before 7am for a beach run and a swim before undoing it all with another 4 course ...