Chiang Mai started off badly. We arrived at the bus station after a 5 hour journey and got our bags from the luggage compartment. The back of Matthews bag was soaking and i mean dripping wet. Neither the bus driver or the conductor apologised when Matthew showed them, they obviously knew that someones bag would get wet. We think it was from the air conditioning. Anyway, it took about half an hour for his bag to be remotely dry so he could carry it! We found a Tu...

After we enjoyed the history of Ayuthaya. we decided to stop off at Sukhothai for even more history as this was the original capital of Thailand where the Thai alphabet as well as much of its culture was developed. We didn't do much on our first day there as the bikes killed my knees so we took it easy, and the place we were staying at was really nice, it even had a swimming pool and a really nice restaurant with freshly baked bread daily. The next day we got a...

We arrived in Ayuthaya at about lunch time after a 2 hour train journey, that was exactly the same as the trains in India, with people walking up and down the aisles selling food and drink constantly. It was none eventful apart from a dear old lady opposite us praying to every wat we went past and there was at least 10 and one food seller with the most revolting smelling fish ever. She came through our carriage at least 5 times too, nice! We found a room no prob...

We have not really mentioned our journeys so far in Southeast Asia and that's because they have all been fairly easy, until this one. It was a long one, over 24 hours in total including a taxi to the ferry jetty, a ferry across to Saturn in southern Thailand and then a 14 hour bus journey up to Bangkok. Everything was ok until the bus journey. The bus was in a lot better state than the onces in India, and it was air conditioned. The bus did stop for a couple of t...