Pai Sorry guys but been quite busy in Pai. we have been here for 4 days and have loved every minute of it. glad we decided to come here instead of trekking out of Chiang Mai. so what have we done here. well white water rafting, trekking, a cooking course and tomorrow get to ride elephants. and have been doing stuff with two people we met on the bus. Marc and Sofia. White Water rafting.. so it wasn't as extreme as the one in OZ but i think i enjoyed it more in a...

Chiang mai Arrived in Chiang Mai early this morning. have meet up with two British people who were on our bus and have decided to trek with them. after a bit of a mission to find one of the recommended hostels the infamous sarah's. we ended up in an ok hostel. we all decided that the treks out of Chiang Mai would be a bit touristy so we decided to go to Pai tomorrow to do the treks and stuff ourselves, which should be more fun. so it is a quick stop for Chiang...

Ayutthaya.... so what have we done to day? well the answer is walk round a few temple ruins. sounds thrilling doesnt it. well actually it was really amazing there was some very cool examples of temples mixed in with completely demolished ones because of bombs etc..but the hsitory behind these thousand year old edifices was immense. as u can see from the pictures. the old two bad things today were the heat! and the fact ive got a swollen ankle thats painful to wa...

Bangkok... yesterday we spent a lot of our day in the chinese embassy well actually wasnt aslong as we thought we'd be. but because we needed our visas for china done in a day we had to kill 3 hours and as the embassy is the complete otherside of central bangkok we ended up catchin the subway to an area called siam square. where we just looked arround the various shopping malls, sat and had a drink. we found 2 very cool shops which both me and jo would have boug...

Bangkok... So we have arrived in bangkok, tis actually a bit strange to be back in a big city after living beach life! last time we were in a big city was KL. it was a whole days travel from ko tao yesterday which was tiring. though now we are here. we are staying just round the corner from koh san road which is legendery for backpackers, so we have lots of shops, restaurants and bars arround us. but most of the sights are a good jorney away. been to the grand ...