After a very long bum-numbing journey we reached chiang mai and had a nice evening before our saturdays adventure. We organised a day trip to go elephant riding and bamboo riding.... our guide was quite the character!! We arrived at the camp and watched an elephant show before our hour and a half trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant!! after our ride we went bamboo rafting down the river which was very relaxing and were then taken by ox cart to our b...

This weekend we decided origionally to go to Chiang Doe. We got on a bus and checked into our very stange hostel..... the women was really very very odd and then went up to the caves!! They were absolutley huge but again very strange... the whole place had a rather eerie atmosphere and we decided there wasn't much to do so we got half our money back after a pretend phone call and flaged down a bus to chiang mai where some of the other AV's were already!! Sarah ma...

This weekend we went to Chiang Mai!! After all getting ready in our room on friday we were nicely dressed in our hippy/bright coloured clothes to get our song taew!! we then got a mini bus from the resort to the city!! we had a great time on the bus with ballons, music, buiscuits and mars bars from fang!! Kew came with us as our little tour guide!! We arrived and discovered we were sleeping in a hugo dorm of 8 which was great fun!! we went out to dinner in a rest...