Our journey from Cambodia was to say the least uncomfortable, a good way to leave the country I guess! We were picked up from our hostel at about 7.30am and squashed into a car with two 2 other people, whose suitcase filled up the entire boot and so we had to balance our rucksacks on our knees! We drove around Siem Reap for about half an hour like this until we reached a petrol station, whereby the two other people were told to get out and three more people got i...

Well after lengthy consultations we decided to skip the hill tribe treks in favour of heading to Laos as soon as we could seeming as we have already been in Thailand for 3 weeks! Unfortunately the bus only leaves Pai in the direction of Chiang Kong at 9 pm so we missed it last night. So we had a day spare here today and decided to rent out a scooter to explore the local area.Northern Thailand is very hilly and mountainous - I expressed my concerns about a scoote...

After a rough day yesterday and the introduction of some antibiotics I felt well enough today to move on from Chiang Mai. We arrived in Pai just before lunch, after a very windy journey through the hills in a minibus, good job we had empty stomachs! We raced to get a hostel, dumped our bags and booked an elephant trek straight away for this afternoon. After a quick change and bite to eat (thats all we had time for) we headed off to the elephant camp in the back...

We arrived in Chiang Mai, in Northern Thailand, after a 17 hour journey from Bangkok on the Night Train, we were in top bunks again but this time we were in the posh air con carriage! We were hoping for a bit of relief from the heat, since up north it is higher so we hoped it would be cooler - no luck unfortunately the 36oc heat hit us as we stepped off the train, but it seems to be a drier heat than in Bangkok so that is a nice change from dripping with the hum...

Our first visit to the crazy capital of Thailand has been good, if not a little hot and sweaty!! It started with a taxi, boat, bus and sleeper train from Koh Pha-Ngan. We had to wait for over 3 hours for the Night Train which was running late, no surprises there! The train itself was strange, neither of us having been on a sleeper before, we had 2 top bunks in a fan-cooled carriage. When we boarded the train all the bunks were already made up so we had no choice ...