We checked out of Sawasdee Banglumpoo Inn (again!) today as tonight we're catching another night bus down to Koh Tao. We decided to visit the zoo as we've pretty much done everything in Bangkok (yeah, there isn't much to do here!). We saw some cool stuff; lots of monkeys, tigers, lions, some really impressive turtles and snakes, and 3 shetland ponies just wondering around...?! This is Thailand - anything can happen! It was quite good although we've been to so man...

So we left Mr B and Fu in Chang Mai and we arrived back in Bangkok this morning at 4 am after a very uncomfortable and smelly 12 hour bus journey. It was 'interesting' to see the Khaosan Road at that time - to be brutally frank it was full of prostitutes and ladyboys... nice. Anyway, we checked into the Sawasdee Banglumo Inn and managed to get a room straight away so I could finally sleep - yay! After breakfast and a decent shower we set off for a Thai massage (w...

Well after an interesting nights sleep (wrapped up like mummy, afraid of getting malaria and just the general sleeping-in-a-shack-ness) we were woken up for our brekkie. We chilled out a bit longer and then got going again. We trekked for quite a while (3 hours) up some very steep hills (!) and stopped off again at another stunning waterfall. We saw some little kids on our way and asked our guide where they were going/what they were doing etc.. and he said they w...

Oh my God. I've had the most amazing past few days. I truly feel like a hard core traveller now! On Sunday night we left Bangkok on the night bus heading for Chang Mai. It was a little worrying as we were told to wait in the lobby at 6 o'clock and we ended up hanging around for ages until the woman finally rocked up at 1850! Anyway, we were slightly aprehensive thinking we were going to be shoved on some over sized tuk tuk with chickens or something but were plea...

This morning we checkout of our Sawasdee Bumlampo Inn as tonight we leave for Chang Mai. I had to buy a rucksack for our trekking (eek) and then we caught a tuk tuk to Siam Square. We spent a long time just wandering around the shops - the shopping centers there are incredible. They are imensely big and range from small high street shops and market type stalls to huge designer names and massive food courts. We were there for a good few hours and we didn't see all...