Today is our last day in chaing mai, we decided to do something special for today, I'm sitting in tiger kingdom waiting for a pizza, but the experience I have had is second to none. I'm not normally scared of anything but I had some fear as our taxi pulled up to tiger kingdom knowing I was going to play with tigers. We entered and chose our package to play, hug and lay on a big cat and medium cat, with a photographer following us too The big cat was 21 months...

Yay we had a lay in and a perfect night sleep, I woke at 7:45, met Pim downstairs for breakfast. Our lift turned up at 8:30 too take us for our cooking school, the school was in chaing mai so only a ten minute journey was needed. We arrived and was met by head chef Amy, a Thai lady who was speaking perfect English. A short introduction and welcome snack was provided. She explained to us the history of the welcome snack and how it was tradition for the English ...

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...

We arrived at Bangkok station by taxi and was advised by information service that our train was on platform 5. We boarded our train and had a double cabin which was air conditioned and ample for over night. I was in berth 3(upper)and Dani was in berth 4(lower) We departed Bangkok at 18:10 and headed for Chiang Mai, we had waitress service which layed on fresh fruit, tea, coffee evening meal, breakfast and more importantly Beer. The evening meal consisted of T...