We arrived in Chaing Mai on Saurday 11th April, after a five hour bus journey from Sukhothai. We had massive problems finding the hostel we had booked, as there we no directions on the website, its just said to get a taxi. Unfortunately, when we got there no-one had heard of our hostel or the road it was on. We ended up wandering the town centre asking for directions. Eventually we went to ask in a local travel agent and the man in there very helpfully looked it ...

We decided to stay in Sukhothai for two days as it's roughtly half way between Bangkok and our next destination (Chiang Mai), and we had read that there was a big set of ruins that were worth seeing in the area. We arrived in town on thursday 9th April quite late in the evening after a 6 hour bus journey. We had planned to leave Bangkok late afternoon, and were told that buses went regularly, but when we turned up at the station we had just missed one, with 2 h...

We landed in Bangkok at around 3pm local time on Thursday 2nd April. The flight was actually not too bad, was expecting it to be a lot worse. The weather was really hot and stuffy. We got a taxi to our hostel (air-conditioned). The traffic in Bangkok is absolute madness. Our hostel is not in central Bangkok it is in a relatively quieter area, but there is still loads going on. We were pleased with our room, which was clean and pleasent, with fan. After a quick na...