this is back dated so i know i am messing up the dates!! ahwell!! this is an interseting place! there really is nothing to it mountain in back grund are very dramatic but i forgot totake photos of it!!!! the only reason you come here is to do the tubing!! you hire out a tube for the day and spend it floating down the river stopping at bars along the way that pull you into the side!!!!! there are slides and bamboo jumps and swings all along it!! it was great!!!! ...

we were up at crack of dawn to get across border! it seems travelling in laos is a moring affair! just after breakkie we headed (wlaked) to the thai side of border to gop through customs. just as we got there jnaine realised she didnthave any passport photos!! so aftre we emergency photo stop we went through border. it was great we were stabnding in thailand but you could look across the river to laos! we got a wee long boat acoprss river which was a struggle get...

Took the over night train to get to chang Mai from bangkok! almost dies when we got on train as it was roasting and the fans were pants but we opened windows and once we sent on our way the speed of the train cooled down the whole carrige! it ws very noisy though and me and jnaine were cramped up into these tiny bunkbeds! i fell asleep sitting gainst mky backpack and then nearly feel off bunk when went round corner with a bump! chang mai is definately much cooler...

past few days in bangkok have been good! went to the grand palace and the emerald budda a few days ago. it was so hot! Bangkok was the hottest city listed at 37.25 degrees!!!!!! very hot and its a dry heat not like singapore. anyway we walked to the palace which took us ages we then couldnt find our way in and kept getting stopped my con men saying the place was closed and it was budda day and they would take us in tuk tuk tour! its a huge scam to pressurise you ...

today was amazing!!!!!!!!! started very early (8am) and had a private car to take us to see the bridge over river kwai!!! we wanted to book a tour but we wanted to do tiger temples and river kwai in a day so guy gave us a private tour. he told us costs for tiger temples was included but it wasnt! sick of con artists in this country but we still paid less than some tours! anyway went to visit the mass graves of the soldiers who lost their lives in thailnd during t...