We finished our time in Thailand with a 3 day jungle trek in Northern Thailand. I vow this is the final bit of exertion on this trip - and I have thrown away my trekking shoes just to make sure... The group was good, even managed to tolerate the stupid "so you live in the countryside - so do you work on a farm?" Americans by the end of it. I was quite pleased that the trek wasn't too arduous. However, as we decided to come to Asia in rainy season, it...

We began Thailand with two islands - first Koh Pi Pi then Koh Phang Nagn. On the second island, we had a beach hut which was just a few metres away from the sea which was pretty nice. So we got a bit of sunbathing in before hitting the bright lights of Bangkok. Now I expected to hate it in Bangkok (we all know that I have the occasional snobbish tendancy), however, I love it. It's mad. When we arrived, we got straight into a tuk tuk laden with our backpacks - ou...