Saturday morning we were picked up by Nancy from Siam Rice cookery school at 9am. We had 5 other people on our group, 4 Scottish Med students and an American ER nurse, if anything were to go wrong today I think we would be OK. We started off with a trip to the market so Nancy could stock up and introduce us to some of the ingredients. We walked around and talked about herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables and rices. We got to Nancy's house at 9:40 and chose our dis...

Sunday, tonight was the night of the world cup final, England are out though so who gives a toss. We were off to the Sunday market for cheap food and a massage. We bought some souvenirs for people and little bargains for ourselves. We found a place to get massages and we both had 30 minutes of neck and shoulder, and 30 minutes of foot for £4.80 all-together, Bargain! We strolled back feeling relaxed and went to bed. Monday we just bimbled about until our bus b...

We checked out of Chiang Mai inn guest house and headed to the travel agents with our big bags. They would be spending the night there whilst we spent the night in the jungle. We had smaller rucksacks loaded with water clean pants and peanuts. We were picked up by Rudi and his driver at 9:00am. We then did the rounds to pick up our fellow trekkers, her name was Sacha. Just me Garath and Sacha, the day before there were 20 people, today just us 3. It should have ...

On Tuesday we were picked up outside our travelagents at 9:00 by one of the jungle flight reps. We got to the base camp at 10:00am after a long winding bumpy ride there. We were harnessed in and packaged up, we were all laughing at one-another in our Tesco Deli hair nets as we walked to the first platform, The first zipline was a short one. At this point Holly was still unsure if she could do it as she was afraid of heights, but she was fine. I was the first on...

We got into Chiang Mai at 7:00am on Saturday. We found a place to stay called Chiang Mai Inn guest house. For the rest of Saturday morning Garath slept and I was on the computer. In the afternoon we met Rob, a good friend of mine from college who I haven't seen properly in about 7 years. He was with another of our friends from college called Kim who has been living in Chiang Mai for the last 3 years, they also bought along Gav who was traveling with Rob for a wh...