The alarm woke me up at 6:30 after a rubbish nights sleep, I was still really excited but tired. We went downstairs and was greeted for breakfast by Pim, half a slice of toast in, our tour operator had arrived at our hotel to collect us. There was one other stop after ours a short distance away, an american couple boarded the mini bus and formally introduced themselves as Mel and Dave, Mel sat at the back with dani and I whilst Dave sat up front with the driver....

We arrived with an two hours delay to chiang mai railway station and was greeted by our taxi driver "welcome chaing mai" Both dani and myself were extremely exhausted after the over night train, looking forward to a nice shower and a rest! Our taxi driver was kind and pleasant, I was expecting maybe a Toyota with air-con and leather seats, oh how wrong was I? Our taxi was a Toyota and it did have a leather seat, but it wasn't a car!! It was a pickup and we were...