Just when I thought yesterday was the highlight of my trip to northern Thailand, today smashed it out of the water. We were picked up by a songtaew in the morning for our one day elephant trek. The shops sold two day and three day treks but we thought these were a bit too long (and pricey) for our liking. We arrived at the least cruel looking elephant park we saw at 09:30, an hour later. No babies tied up with 1m chains, no elephants left in the sun and an e...

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...