Today is our last in Chiang Mai before we head to the Capital, Bangkok, we have done most there is to offer here so it was another day catching rays and chilling by the pool again. Tough life. Our 15 hour train to Bangkok is at 5.30, so we left the pool at around 4 ish and went back to the hostel to get ready before getting a tuk tuk to the train station. The last one we got managed to be our best haggle, 30baht each for all 6 of us, which is about 70p. The tra...

An American guy at the hostel had told us about a good place to go cliff jumping… and as you have probably gathered…. We love jumping off stuff! The place was a canyon which has been filled with water and has lots of cliffs to jump off. Ben left the camera at the hostel on charge by accident so we have no photos from it unfortunately, just one that Tim got on his phone. It was a pain in the arse to get there… because local Tuk Tuk drivers don't really...

From when we got picked up from the hostel, to when we arrived in Chiang Mai, it took 23 hours in the end… painful! With the waiting for bus changes and waiting at the borders the journey really dragged. We checked in to Deejai Backpackers which was recommended and met back up with Charlotte, Kelly & Georgie… the three girls doing a similar route to us, and we have already seen in Vietnam and Cambodia. We had a chilled day after the journey and book...

Today was something we were really looking forward to! We were going to ride elephants and then go to Tiger Kingdom where you can actually touch the tigers. The tour guide picked us up at half 8 and took us to a market to buy some food for the elephants. We all bought a few bunches of bananas for them then made our way to the elephant camp. As soon as we got there we were given some Mahout ( elephant driver ) clothes to wear, which were a denim shirt and de...