Today I spent the day with Andrew (Australian) who I am sharing a dorm with and Anna (American) who is staying in another hostel. We got a taxi to the top of the mountain to visit the temple, it was such a long way up that my ears popped on the way. The temple itself was really amazing, unfortunately though it has continued to rain today, but not bad enough that you can't get out and about. We came down from the mountain early afternoon and found a place called t...

So after 13hrs on a train which was very comfortable, tucked up in my little bed, I arrived in Chiang Mai. The only downside to the train was needing a wee twice, peeing in to a hole in the floor and on to the train track is not a nice experience. Chiang Mai from what I saw from the back of a tuk tuk is very much like Bangkok just cooler. The temperature up here is at it's highest when it's about 31, coolest can be down to 19. I've actually had to put a jumper on...