By Andrew Day - as promised (we now know)

it's offical, after a truly nightmareish day trying to get to the zoo which is only 10 mins away we have today decided that we will leave Chaing Mai Tuesday afternoon on the night train. This will get us back in to Bangkok Wednesday morning, we will then stay one night then finally hit the beach. Till later my adventure lovers xx

PS, the zoo had some really great animals but needed some money spending on making it a place tourist would talk about in a good light. The journey there via tuk tuk, which is a very small moded with a trailer on the back to an hour but they did take us to the silk factory which wasn't planned or appricated.

Moan over, just one more sleep till the wild animals (wait and see)