First day of the tour starts here. So the plan is to visit the town of Chiang Mai, I kind of figured it’s gonna be where I went myself yesterday but it wasn’t which was amazing. We visited the temple - I forget the name - have flowers to Buddha and made a wish. Before being taught how to give respect the Buddhist way. There was an event going on at the same time which meant we were given free food and drinks bought with the donations to the temple. The ride...

The night markets in brief tonight - food once again so cheap - I offered to pay for the reps drinks as well and it still came to only £3. Walking past all of the massage shops watching people have their feet done on the street is odd, the prices are mind boggling. For the neck and shoulder massage over at home you’re lucky to get one for £30 usually - translating into Bahts as 1265 - over here they’re 350 at the most - in our money? £8. Madness. Temples...

Day 01 and I’m exploring the city solo. Nothing planned so being whisked off by a tuk tuk round the city for a few hours gave me a welcome breeze in the warm heat. Dam the driver was amazing jumping out of his tuk tuk to take pics of me around different sites. Unfortunately after a call he had to rush off (not great being told you’re being left at a temple no way of knowing where you actually are) but one thing about the Thai’s they’re a big old friendly...