Friday 7th November 2008 In need of serious respite after a busy two and a half weeks in Thailand, we decided what a better way to spend it that to visit the small hippy villiage of Pai. At 9.30am we got picked up from Libra Guesthouse and the journey took about 3 hours, along windy, country roads to get to Pai. The village, situated in a mountainous valley along a river is surrounded in a natural, beautiful setting.. and has a real hippy vibe, everyone genuin...

Sunday 2nd November 2008 Today we arrived in Chiang Mai at about 10.45am. Touts were all around trying to charm us into taking up their offer of their guesthouse/hotels. We weren't inetersted in any, until one particular lady, not so persistant, offered us a free ride to her family run guesthouse 'Libra Guesthouse' which had rooms for just 200 Baht.. We decided to take up the offer and what a good decision it was!! The rooms were clean and basic and the bed was ...

(28th to 30th October, 2008) Today we took a local bus from Bangkoks South Terminal at 6.30am for a 3 hour journey to Kanchanaburi based on the infamous River Kwai. Taken the local bus takes a little longer, but ALOT cheaper than the organised tour bus's. Doing it this way allows you to see a different mix of thai people including - Monks, school kids who practice there English on you (so cute), vendors and people going to work etc. It was a breath of fresh air ...

Today we headed to Ayutthaya from Kanchanaburi on the 4.50am bus where we had to get a connecting bus from Supanburi to Ayutthaya. It wasnt so bad as we were on the back seat of both buses where the leg room is plentiful and the doors on the bus were left open so you get lots of cool air rushing onto the bus. We found it funny that at 6.30am one of our bus's that dropped the thai children of to school was smashing out tunes on this bus really loud, like in a club...

(23rd to 28th October, 2008) Woohoo!!! ...the long await to our dream trip is over.. we are finally here!! It is crazy!! After a long, tiring journey we finally arrived in the city of Bangkok. After collecting our luggage, getting our passports/visas stamped we hopped onto the airport express bus (AE2); at a mere 150 Bahts we thought that was a bargain! The bus ride took approximately 45 minutes to get to Koh San Road, our first destination. Erawan House w...