Today we woke up early to head to the Elephant Nature Park (the reason why we came to Chiangmai). We were picked up by Mi who was one of the people who worked at the nature park. It took just over an hour to get to the park and during that time we watched a video about the park, what it does, purpose etc. Mi gave us a few tips and rules we should follow whilst at the park particularly mentioning Hope, one of the young male elephants in the park who is naughty and...

Today we ate some breakfast, checked out of the hotel and went to the Bangkok flower market along the main river in Bangkok. After having a look around there we got on a tuk tuk and followed the river for about 10 minutes. We then got in a taxi and headed back to the hotel. We had some lunch and went for a swim and before long it was time fir us to head towards the train station for our train to Chiangmai. We waited at the train station for a while until the trai...

This morning we woke up refreshed by the nights sleep on the sleeper train from Bangkok (at least I was - Shaun didn't find the rocking of the train as soothing). In Chiangmai it was drizzling and we were met at the train station by our guide from The Elephant Nature Park - Mee (that is her name). We were taken to our hotel to check in. After the glamorous hotel back in Bangkok we were brought back to earth by the simple 'bare bones' of The Star Hotel. After fre...

Today we left Phuket and took a flight to Bangkok. After waiting some time for the bags to come from the carousel we took the airport express train to the city centre and then connected to a different train to get to our hotel. For some reason all the tourist maps had every other hotel on them except ours. We were lucky however that I spotted the hotel just as we pulled into the train station. We arrived at the Renaissance Hotel Bangkok. We checked in and went up...

This morning we woke up bright and early to head out on a tour of Phi Phi Islands. The tour picked us up from the hotel and drove us to the port were we were greeted by our guid Bob. Our group had a large Indian family, a small Russian family and Melbournian couple. We were surprised that the Indian family spoke mainly English to eachother. So we got on the speed boat and were informed that because of the rainy season it was going to be a long bumpy ride. I thou...