I awoke this morning feeling pretty glum over the girls departure. On top of that my stomach felt a little bit sick which added nicely to my discontent, curse you Murphy's law and the misery that accompanies you. After breakfast myself And lisbet headed up to the Chaing Mai mountains to get a look at the Temple up there. We were planning on getting a tuk-tuk the entire way up but were outraged when the driver priced the journey at 1200 B so instead got the tuk tu...

When travelling for long periods of time it is ridicules to think that every will be perfect. Sadly as well as amazing highs there will inevitably be some lows also. Today for me was a mixture of both highs and lows unfortunately ending on a low. To begin i tried my hand at ziplining. The company we went with was the most expensive of all the choices but had a great name for themselves and was voted best attraction in Asia so we thought that if we were going to ...

Today was a lazy day. We had a massive breckfast then relaxed until about six in the evening. At that stage we hopped into a taxi and headed out to a temple in the mountains. We never made it to the temple though because ten minutes into the taxi journey we spotted another massive midnight market and nearly jumped out of the moving taxi to get to it, sorry temple we will get to you to tomorrow. This market was amazing, such a find. Unlike the last one which real...

Still the overnight trip to the beach was the highlight of my trip but my bike ride around Chaing Mai isn't too far behind. While brid went off for the day washing elephants and Deirdre got her nails done, myself, sista and Lisbet went for a half day bicycle tour around the southern part of Chaing Mai countryside with our very own tour guide. Our your guide who's name I shamefully never bothered to take note of was so nice and passionate about nature and Buddhis...

I have to say the journey to Chaing Mai was not quiet so pleasant as the one to Bangkok but we got there regardless and that's what counts. Ta me i ngra leis an Chaing Mai! It is such a cool city, just as interesting as Bangkok yet way more chilled. On the first day Ruth and Brid went off to do a cookery course while myself Lisbet and Deri-Dreeeee went for a gander around the city. This lead us to china town where we saw two different things that really excited u...