Days 2 and 3 We were supposed to move early on Saturday but we did not set an alarm and did not wake up until 12, by the time we had packed and left the hotel at was already 1pm so we didn't really do much in the day. We did visit the travel agents and booked to go to the Tiger Temple, Bridge on th River Kwai and the floating Markets tomorrow and also booked the the train to Chiang Mai on Tuesday evening and the 3 day Elephant trek starting on Thursday. The new...

Day 1: Our body clocks are still messed up so we woke up at 5am. After a few hours on Skype to family back home, we were up, dressed and on the river taxi for 8am off to the Grand Palace. The river taxi was interesting. The ticket cost 14baht (about 25 pence) one way and took about 15 minutes to reach the Grand Palace. At the enterance gates, there was a big sign that said that we had to dress appropriately, it seems that shorts are not appropriate and we were ...

A quick blog entry to start us off. We finally arrived in Bangkok today after a short stay in Dubai. It was really nice to feel the sun on our skin after weeks of cold weather at home but i got a little carried away and now look like a lobster on one side of my body - no sun for me for the next few days (also no blog photos today as it might scare you). We have not really done much today other than sleep and have a quick look around. I somehow managed to find...