What to do today, what to do today, lets go play with tigers! Around 15 km outside of Chiang Mai lies Tiger Kingdom, a somewhat zoo like experience, but somewhere which allows you to actually get in the exhibition and interact with tigers. Rather than paying 300 each for a hired songtaew from our hostel, we decided to rent a scooter for 200 which when we filled it up to the brim with fuel cost 80 (and we only used half)! After frantically trying to google di...

Our first day in Chiang Mai was relaxed after the pretty restless 12 hour bus journey (10 hours when we actually got moving). We walked around CM to get a sense of Thailand's second city also known as the unofficial 'capital of the north'. The place is far more relaxed than Bangkok and much more my style. Bars with chilled out music, cheaper prices and a wifi connection that actually stays connected - it just doesn't work half the time. We headed to the ni...

Bangkok does things differently, that goes without saying. The Siriraj Medical Museum, nicely nicknamed the Museum of Death, which is located at an actual operational hospital, has rapists and murderers on display like they're old fossils. If that wasn't weird enough, there are conjoined twin bodies and the bodies of other deformed babies and their fetus's. And you know what? It's a damn sight more interesting and educational than the fabric museum we went in y...

After seeing things I didn't want to see and things that I didn't even know we're possible last night, today we wanted to explore a bit more of what Bangkok has to offer. We walked to the Grand Palace (pictured) which is the most famous and recognisable temple in Thailand only to find out it was closed to foreigns until 1pm today because of the Chinese New Year prays - great start when the temperature was well into the 30's. We hanged around in Subway for an ...

After the first nights drinks, we decided not to do much on our first full day in Thailand. After waking, we headed straight to the Vietnamese embassy to get our visas sorted for later in our travels. Even though it's only 10 miles down the road, due to the awful traffic in Bangkok, it took close to one hour to reach - at least it only cost £1.40 each. Same day processing would have been ideal but we didn't want to hang around for 5 hours so £50 lighter, we...