We arrived in Chiang Mai late on the Thursday both feeling very tired. After a taxi ride to the town we spent a few minutes driving up and down the central streets trying to find MD House. Eventually we found it off the main road and met a gentleman called Sunny. Friday was spent learning more abouth the surroundings and how things are done here...

Hola a todos! Ayer aproveche' del domingo para hacer un viajecito relajante a las fuentes termales de San Kamphaeng a 30 km de Chiang Mai, muy bonito la verdad, grande parques tranquilos y buena atmosfera. He subido las primeras fotos del viaje!! las podeis encontrar aqui http://picasaweb.google.com/tialzolaffitto/Thailandia1 Son fotos de B...

We woke up happy in our knowledge that we wouldn't be spending the next night in such painful accomodations.  After a breakfast of french toast we went down to the dinner for rafting.  We had no idea what we were in for.  Bamboo river rafting turns out to be standing on rickety makeshift flotillas of long bamboo stems lashed toget...

Well hello. We are finally back after what feels like the longest 3 days in the history of the world. We thoroughly enjoyed our trek, however it is highly unlikely we will be doing anything similar within our lifetime. We did so much in the last 3 days that this is going to be a long email, so if you're at work trying to skive (fish) you may not...

WOHOOO.. I survived the 9 hour bus ride, to be honest i slept all the way through it! Didnt feel as long as i imagined.. So Anna and I took a tuk-tuk to our accommodation Bows Chaing Mai Guesthouse.. we checked out one of the rooms and OH MY DAYS LUXURY!! compared to the other places that we have stayed at.. Our room is a Twin room A/C, TV, Hot ...

We were picked up at 930 by a rickshaw and spent the following 30 minutes squashed in the back of the taxi come truck picking up all the other students from their hotels. We finally reached the market where we would learn about the ingredients we were to cook with. Turned out that the market was only a 2 minute walk from our hotel, doh! Back in ...

After an overnight bus journey to Bangkok arriving at 05:00 and then a connecting flight we eventually arrived in Chiang Mai in the afternoon. Chiang Mai is the largest City in northern Thailand. True to form the Lonely Planet came up trumps as the Guest house it recommended was nice, homely, clean and cheap. The lady who ran the place was very ...

We woke up early on Monday and got prepared for our trek. We had met everyone else who was going the night before, and after a bit a truck came to fetch us. We stopped for lunch along the way (all included in the price) and then were dropped off at a hill tribe village. I was a bit hesitant to take the trek because I had read many accounts of ho...

We left the sordid, scabby hole in the ground that is Bangkok for greener pastures. Much greener it turned out!! We were on our way to Chiang Mai for our jungle safari, live under the stars type holiday. All we had to do was endure a 13 hour train ride to get there!! Saying that, it worked out very cheap. We were in the station and we were infor...

Friday 26th September... Got back into Bangkok from Chiang Mai at 6am today having spent yet another 12 hours on a "luxury" bus driven by a psycho old man who stopped every hour for a smoke and decided to wake us up when we got back to Bangkok by playing a song about Simon Says... Feel like I've aged about 80 years since doing the 3 day trek - I...