Hello, fran again. So the day after we went to the monks and got all relaxed and in the zone, we went to a zip wire place, which is one of the most unrelaxing things you could do. The centre was really high up in the mountains and the zip wire platforms were attached to huge trees from which you could see the mist swirling around the mountains and all the forests, it was very scenic. When we got there they kitted us out. Because it was raining loads they gave us...

Salutations. (this is Anna) So we've just come back from a meditation course, which was brill-o but will do that in a min. Before that we had a day of pampering and went to a mega fab night market! Bought more stuff we don't really need but is great anyway! We got a thai massage again, determined to better our experience of it and had an amazing one, really relaxing, with gentle music playing and it was even more full on contact! They use their feet alot. S'al...

Hello! Fran again. The day after the elephants (which were so bon) we decided to go trekking. Which was to say the least, interesting. We were already quite tired from the day before and in the car on the way to the trek we both fell asleep, which was not a good sign. We started off by going to a 'hill tribe' village, which was basically one house with a stall in front of it where they pressured you to buy 'authentic' stuff which we had actually already seen in ...

Ground control to all blog fans. Roger that. I'm (Anna) reading an army book about Iraq, it's so good! I finished my last one and I'm on a roll. Fran's read like 10 book and is currently converting latin into arabique or something. As ya do. Anyway since the last blog, in Koh Tao, we had a HUGE 24 hour bus journey up to Chaing Mai which was horrendous - neither of us slept even with sleeping tablets because there was no room on the seats, so we had a curved co...

Fran here. Sorry we have not written a blog in seven days! Gasp! We have been very preoccupied. We arrived at Krabi and decided that since our guide book had raved about the mangrove tour at Ko Klang (a small island off Krabi), to take a day trip there. We booked a tour as soon as we got to Krabi and then got onto a small boat to explore what we thought would be the amazing mangrove extravaganza! It turned out to be really, really quite boring. It lasted for 3 h...