Chiang Mai - Thailand June 3rd - 6th, 2016 Negotiating a ride to our accommodation took a couple of tries before we were happy with a price and jumped aboard a Sonngthaew (another style of collectivo) where a few other travellers were already seated. I had to laugh at their naivety when they said there wasn't room for us...there were only 6 of them in there....I may have commented that you'd fit another 5 people in there which they clearly didn't believe but...

Ayutthaya - Thailand June 2nd, 2016 We began our day with a train ride out of Pak Chong where we ended up sitting in the 'Monk' section as there were no other seats, this is a carriage of the train with nice reclining seats as oppose to the hard wooden ones, that is reserved for the Monks who travel around Thailand. Most of them didn't seem too bothered but I heard some muttering and grumbling from one and eventually when other seats became free we were mov...

Khao Yai National Park - Pak Chong - Thailand May 31st - June 2nd, 2016 We took a train to Pak Chong where we had booked a day and a half's tour in the nearby Khao Yai National Park and after being transferred from the station to our accommodation via the back of a pick up truck we just had time to grab some lunch before setting out. The half day part of the tour took us to a natural spring where we were supposed to go for a swim, but as it had just started r...

Bangkok - Thailand May 28th - 31st, 2016 Bangkok was not quite as we expected it to be, All we've heard and seen to do with this city has led us to believe that it is completely non stop, that it is super crowded and frenetic, polluted, not particularly safe and a bit on the dark, grungy side of things. Now while that may be the case for small pockets, we found in general that it is a smart, modern city with great transport links, fairly clean streets and an...