We woke up to our first morning in the hut that had seemed so cute and quaint the previous night. It was in fact an insect infested green house and we were the sweaty prey. Despite our makeshift mosquito nets, us girls were peppered with mossie bites and had experienced a hot and steamy night. We had a slight lie in before showering and sorting out our wet and mouldy belongings that were still festering from our trek. After a dodgy breakfast of sweaty ham, half...

In the morning, everyone was hanging and so we agreed we would just hang out by the pool until our bus to Pai came at 4. Before we could even make it to the pool, the heavens opened and it bucketed it down with rain. We endured it for amount an hour before agreeing that the only way we would feel better was to find a McDonalds. So into a tuktuk we got and made our way into the centre to locate our McChicken sarnies. There wasn't a shred of guilt between us - we n...

In the morning we awoke around 5am to some thunder and lightening but I found it soothing so fell back asleep again. When we finally woke up properly we enjoyed a scrambled egg and pepper breakfast and some strong coffee before saying our goodbyes to the tribe and making our way down for the second day of our trek. We soon discovered it was even harder walking downhill as it was slippy and really tough on the legs. I fell a grand total of 14 times on the way do...

The next day, the pick up truck arrived with Sam and Henry already inside. We then picked up an Irish couple, 2 French guys and a French guy with his mum. They turned out to be really nice as we quickly made friends over the next couple of days. After a kerfuffle with our luggage (I thought they would take them from us instantly, but they locked them in a shop later on in our trek) we set off. After an hour bumpy trek, we arrived at a butterfly farm which was u...

I slept really badly for some reason, despite being exhausted as the train was bumpy and cold. We finally arrived in Chiang Mai at 8:30 in the morning, thirteen hours later, and made our way to a taxi. Only 20 minutes later, we found our way to Baan Khun, our first dorm hostel. We went for a brief walk around, saw a temple, got some antibiotics for my painful wisdom tooth (it looked slightly infected) and then chilled at the hostel while Charlotte had a nap. When...