TK: last night I tasted northern Thai food for the first time. I asked the waiter to recommend the best dish they had, which was the taster platter of sausages, chilli pickle, nuts, raw vegetables and rice. The sausages were sensational, one was like an English pork sausage but with ginger, chilli, coriander and lime, one was like salami but contained pig skin and garlic, and another was finely minced pork that had been seasoned and wrapped in a banana leaf and s...

JK - Today we flew in to Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. Leaving the city behind and arriving in the more rural north was fantastic as was our first sight of the great Mekong River. We started our day visiting the Golden Triangle - the tri-country boarder between Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, where opium used to be a major cash crop. We learned a lot more about this in the House of Opium museum. A small but fascinating place. Lunch was in the 'Riverside Bar and...

TK: We had an action packed day in Bangkok. We saw the royal palace, the reclining Buddha, and took a long tailed boat tour or the canals, all before lunch! It was hot work, 30 degrees plus and super humid. Our cameras were working overtime as everything is so photogenic, no excuses for bad photos! After yesterday's extreme chilli fest today's offerings were milder, pad Thai with shrimp, dumpling soup, jasmine tea and grilled white snapper with lemongrass, ginge...

JK - so a quick 2 hour hop from KLIA brought us in to Bangkok. What a place this is! Warm, buzzing, busy, crazy and fascinating. We started the day traveling by boat to visit Wat Arun, an amazing temple named after the India God of dawn, Aruna. It was beautiful and well worth a visit, just beware of the steep climb to the top! We decided to walk back through the markets - pure indulgence for all the senses and I hope a small taste of what Bangkok is really like...