We reach the Sunflower Cafe the starting point for our trek at 8.30 am a bit flustered as we woke up rather late; jet lag who needs it! The cafe is a hive of activity with small pick-up trucks being loaded with food, water and all other essentials for the trek. We have a breakfast of banana pancake and sing Jingle Bells with a delightful Thai girl of about 3 who has all sorts of tunes on her smart phone - fab way to start the day. There are two separate treks l...

Clickity clack, clickity clack; we are awoken after a good nights sleep at 6 am by the sound of the Super Express 9 heading towards Chiang Mai. We grab a cab and detour the city and head straight for the airport. After a short hop over the mountains on Kan Air (small propeller plane) we landed in Mae Hong Son our home for the next four nights. Quickly through the airport we exited where we thought we had negotiated well when our driver agreed to a Baht 60 fare fr...

Smooth as Silk as they say, Park Street to Bangkok in 18 hrs; not bad and that's with an hour's delay. The highlight of the trip (so far) was bumping into David Myers from the Hairy Bikers at Heathrow who was also on his way to Bangkok and I had to compliment him on the Hairy Dieters' lasangne, what a nice fellow. Smooth as Silk again as we book our hire car and pick up our train tickets for the overnight-er to Chiang Mai. We pass a few hours in Khao San Rd hav...

Picked up from our hotel at 9.15am for the long journey to Bangkok. Our minivan looks somewhat luxurious in comparison to the transport we have taken in Laos and Cambodia. It takes 8hrs to reach our hotel which included the ferry, a couple of stops for the loo, lunch and a sick break for a little Amreican boy who had car sickness; bless him. The worst part of the journey was getting through the Bangkok traffic; without using the expressway took about two hours to...

After all the horror stories we had heard about Koh Chang being too touristy we were beginning to think we should have tried a Cambodian islands after all, but, thank goodness, this was all about to change. We moved straight away from Bang Bao and after a quick trip to Agoda on the internet booked in to the Ramayana on a bay on the busier west side of the island. By 10.30am we were looking a lot happier, great room, pool, hourly truck to a great beach that was s...