We are having such a brilliant time in Thailand. It's a really beautiful place. We had heard some negative stuff about it from other people on the way round, but what we have seen of it so far is brilliant. We came to Chiangmai only really to go to the Elephant sanctuary. We ended up going to that & also got roped into going to a snake farm, monkey "school", Thailands biggest diamond store, a silk place, and a craft shop all in the same day! Th...

We are in the best place in the world at the moment - Pai. We could easily live here. It's a very small town & is just like Glastonbury festival. It's full of Japanese Rastas (!?) & local & western hippies. Brilliant. There's just one kind of main road with stalls & shops selling all kinds of crafts & clothes, handmade jewelery & shoes. There are restaurants that do vegetarian food & falalfels! We are staying in a hut a short di...

We are in the best place in the world at the moment - Pai. We could easily live here. It's a very small town & is just like Glastonbury festival. It's full of Japanese Rastas (!?) & local & western hippies. Brilliant. There's just one kind of main road with stalls & shops selling all kinds of crafts & clothes, handmade jewelery & shoes. There are restaurants that do vegetarian food & falalfels! We are staying in a hut a short di...

We caught a local bus from the border to Chaing Rai. It was really cool, altho it looked like it was going to fall apart! It took 3 hours to get to Chaing Rai because it went all through the villages but the landscape was amazing & it was cool to see the smaller villages. We decided to stop in Chaing Rai for a night as we had travelled so much on buses & wanted a break, there wasn't a whole lot going on there so the next day we went on to Pai, althoug...

We reached the border eventually after a long old bus journey through the night zigzagging through the mountains. People were throwing up and everything, we wondered what the plastic bags handed out at the beginning were for! They crushed all the locals down the middle of the coach on plastic chairs, it must have been a nightmare for them as they couldn't sleep (apart from the lady who slept with her head on my lap!) and they were being thrown around all over t...