Just have to tell you about what we got up to last night. well firstly spent the day doing all the touristy things in Bangkok like seeing the temples and being ripped off by tuk tuk drivers. we got taken to a gem store (gem scam is THE typical one for thailand) pretended to look around but left quickly anyway. saw the biggest reclining buddah, the biggest golden buddha and the grand palace. in the evening..slight change of scenery as we went to calypso cabaret...

Hey hey, long time no write, been stranded on some island, been such a shame, sun sea sand!! hehe we went to the island of Phi Phi, you know the one which got hit by the tsunami and where the Beach was filmed. see piccy!! well got there was raining so bad, but it wasnt a problem what so ever as we were planning on being below sea level most of the time. we booked our course for open water diving 3 days. first day most alot of theory and just going to about 3 m...

Back in Chiang Mai now after 2 days trek in the forests north of the city. been a busy two days, we managed to cram in visiting a long neck village...hiking for a few hours up hill ahh that was tiring in the heat...saw some caves and waterfall...went on an elephant ride. ours managed to eat everything we passed and then towards the end stopped and passed everything it had eaten!! we managed to capture that on film, lovely. in the night we stayed in a bamboo hut ...

just so you know, no i didnt burn my food!! i am a good cook really! so once i got up to bangkok we collected our laundry from friends, and caught another night train to Chang Mai. now this train was sooo hot, we thought we'd get some sleep as we had beds on it but nope not a chance. i was so hot i just couldnt sleep. my friend jon even hiluccinated the train was on fire. today we did a thai cooking course. it was soo much fun. tour of the food market, fruit...

Aww you should see the beaches in this place, so nice!! nothing compares to fiji but still.. definately needed a good rest after rushing around the jungle and the highlands. we just sat on the beach for a few days, jon got sunburnt hehe, i got bitten all over my ankles by mozzies, and... we swam with turtles!! it was a snorkelling trip which took us to 5 different sites, not very original names (shark point, turtle point etc) did get to see a large black tipped...