We woke up after a lovely night in our wooden hut. We could here all sorts of noises, roosters in the valley, dogs in the field next door and loads of crickets. It all just makes the experience more enjoyable and isn't actually disturbing as you might think. We had breakfast overlooking the valley and got speaking to and very cool Indian man who has been travelling for 18 years non stop teaching people to become Yoga instructors (a very obvious vocation in Pai). ...

Another enjoyable overnight train journey to Chiang Mai, helped by having the lower berths which have so much room plus the window to look out early in the morning when you arrive. I woke up at about 0630 and was joined by Isla who wanted to snuggle and said she had been wondering when she could come into my berth. We tried to enjoy the view together but then the train staff came round and wanted to collapse the beds down, so we ended up just sitting and lookin...

We woke up from a wonderful sleep at the fancy hotel ☺️ and had a lovely breakfast (although the beans where still luke warm but hey it's Asia). We were waiting to be collected for our tour in the beautiful hotel lobby when a suspicious looking fella comes in, I say to jay 'he looks super dodgy' and of course he is running our tour! We were pointed to the bus where the tour man started arguing with another person on the tour claiming they owed more money....g...

Saturday 23rd January 2016 After a lovely train journey into Hanoi (probably the best overnight journey we have had), we immediately saw how cold it was going to be. We had seen on a weather forecast that it was going to be about 12•c but when we saw how grey and wet it was, we were kind of upset and annoyed. We thought we were going to be missing out this winter. Oh well won't be for long. We walked quickly towards our hotel, I was still dressed in shorts bu...

Thursday 21st Jan '16 We flagged down the bus and were literally grabbed and pulled on by the bus conductor. She was really nice and said to sit up the back where we could stretch out and lay our bags down....until we had to pay. We gave exactly the right amount and seemed really put out and said we needed to pay more because our bags took up an extra seat, so we moved them into our laps, she then said we still needed to pay more because they were heavy bags, ja...