We had an amazing day at the elephant nature park today. It was recommended to us by 2 girls from our tour in Africa and we were able to see first hand the wonderful work they do and got to spend some up close and personal time with the elephants. It's a sanctuary set up by a woman called Lek, who takes in and rescues abused and injured elephants. The bus came to pick us up from our hotel early doors so we got to spend the whole day there, on the hour journey up ...

Had a good couple of good nights in a decent hotel, costed £6.50 a night which is pretty good for large room, air con, free breakfast and private bathroom but we've been on the hunt for cheaper to enter the world of legit backpackers and save some money. From Tuesday the hostel stays begin! We've booked Tipsy Manor hostel, private room, shared bathroom looks pretty decent and had good reviews so optimistic! We headed to the Saturday night market yesterday, was p...

So travelling doesn't always go to plan.... That was definitely the case this morning! We'd done all our research- not the best online system info for transport it seems! We'd originally found that the train tracks were closed for a 5hr section of the journey towards Chiang Mai, so we opted for buses until last night when I read how many accidents occur with the long haul buses! So we looked again at trains and a rail replacement bus, had this sorted for a 08:30 ...