Last night I got absolutely canned by Mosquitos - so much so that I barely got a wink of sleep which made for a lazy morning. I met up with a mate from England today (I had met him last year on a Pueblo Ingles program). I took him down to the local markets where we had a bit of a look around and got some lunch from the food market. The rest of the afternoon we wondered around Chiang Mai. Seen this crazy drunk guy try and hit another Thai guy with a bamboo stick ...

Today I decided to sleep in and have a very easy going day. I caught up on a few emails etc and then myself Kosta and Matt made our way to the street markets for lunch. I got myself the chicken and pork blood curry like usual. Next we headed to the Op shops - very cool here loads of interesting clothes at ridiculously cheap prices. The rest of the afternoon we spent at Kosta's hostel playing pool and chilling out. To be honest I am getting a little board here ...

Day 3 Trekking After a brilliant nights sleep well compared to the previous nights sleep I was up at 7am ready to go on our last day of trekking! After breakfast we made our way to the Elephant camp and straight away we went for our Elephant ride. It was ok nothing to amazing - it was basically a seat attached to an elephant with a piece of rope across it. It was a little scary at points and all in all quite relaxing the elephant went into and along the river a...

Day 2 Trekking Today we were up at 7am but to be honest I had not slept at all as the night had been absolutely freezing and I was unable to get warm. For breakfast we were given scrambled eggs, 3 pieces of toast, butter, jam and coffee. Once again for what we had paid this was quite decent. It turned out all the other people on the tour had only booked the two day hiking and so we would be walking to the elephant farm where they would stay and we would separa...

Day 1 - Trekking Today Matt and I were off trekking on a 3 day hike; visiting and staying with two hill tribes and doing a variety of other activities that included elephant riding. To be honest we were not expecting anything to amazing as we had only paid about $30 for the tour but with low expectations we could only be impressed. At 9am we made our way to the travel agent where we were shoved in the bag of a ute and told by our tour guide that there would be...