So here I am finding myself in Chiang Mai!!! Chiang Mai has been a very busy city for me and Sarah!! Got the overnight bus from Bangkok which was very comfortable (but I think this is due to my small size!) and arrived in Chiang Mai on Buddha's Birthday! There were lots of young monks collecting food for the celebrations later that day and all the temples were shinging glories in the sunshine!! We met the rest of our trek group who are all very nice, young and energetic looking enough for the trek!

The first day we trekked for about 5 hours in total (with breaks all the time mum!) and found some brilliant wildlife! The jungle was abundant with big and beautiful butterflies, that was incidentally also quite interested in much of the group! We found the hairy caterpillars that I had an allergic reaction to once so steered clear of them but also made a friend in "Chuncho!!" a little rolly bug and we trekked together for the rest fo the day! We found some cool plants along they way including a bubble plant!! When you open it just below the leaves and blow it makes bubbles!! It was so cool!
We passed a school in the jungle, and ended up taking over the classroom! (oops) we played "tag" with all the little cheeky kids and got them far too excited to get back to learning...oh dear!
Eating fruit fom the trees along the way and finding that camp on the second day had a waterfall!!! We all hastily jumped in and didn't get out for a long time! It was lovely with the hard days trekking over with! Relaxing by the camp fire we retired for another day. The last trek day we river rafted and then went on an elephant trek which was actually quite upsetting, We were all told it was a sanctuary but it really didn't look like it was! But the baby elephant was cute and tried to eat me and stood on my foot, damn they are heavy for nine months!!!!!!

After the trek we all decided to celebrate with going out in town, we found the reggae bar finally! Jammin the night away!! What a good end to the trip! Thai boxing tonight which will be fun! Canada VS England.....!

So, plan is to get the boat to Laos tommorrow and then maybe some tubing seen as everyone raves about it!! ha! Talk soon guys!