Wow! Wat a place! Awesome and what a bargain! turn up without any hostel booked and manage to secure ourselves a perfect hostel/hotel right on the beach, own restaurant, bar, and best of all, we had a twin bedded beach hut!! On the beach!! Result! Mira Mare Resort. Best thing since sliced bread! It even had its own massage lot on the beach! Spent the next day on the beach of course! Lapping up the beautiful sun and surroundings! hadn't been to a proper beach like...

So on the moped still! Went n saw the main temple in Chiang Mai called Doi Suthep which was pretty impressive. I don't know what it is though with having to climb so many bloody steps to see the temple crickey - its boiling hot n I have to climb like 400 odd blinking steps! Not happy!Headed onwards up the main road on the 2 wheels to find us some waterfalls. Nowt special yet but they are starting to get bigger n better. Got stung though by having to pay to see on...

Alarm ringing at 6.30!! 6.30 is that the right time…..oh yes….its elephant time!! Hahaha! Of we went with a trumpty trump!! Ha sorry couldn't resist! So, a mini bus picked us up from our hostel at nearly half 8. Off we went n picked up the rest (ha sorry I got that stupid neely the elephant tune in my head now lol!) of our group 9 in total, sarah n dom from England, one american girl with her Malaysian blokey, then a married couple from Kuala Lumpar, and a st...

The over night bus messed us up completely!! Had an aweful nigh on it - no sleep, cold, wet cause the bloody thing was leaking n it dragged n dragged!! Stopped for a toilet break n got eaten alive by mozzis whilst pants were dropped but part from that not much to say on the subject…………..! Spent all day Friday asleep at the hostel because it messed us up that bad! Woke for dinner tho, n our hostel lady actually went out for us twice - ha once to get our f...

So we had 2 days in Bangkok - very different to Hong Kong (in a good way though). It was full of people, most of which were stood cooking on carts on the side of the road. Best Chinese/thai I have ever had!! Had a 2 course meal with a drink for roughly 50p!! Not bad eh!! Haha! Big Johns hostel is what I call a proper one - only has dorms to stay in so we were straight in there!! Shared with a load of lads! There was me n lisa - then Mike, Scott, Reece, Matt, Sam ...