We had another slow start to the day But still managed to be out and on a bike by just before 10am! We decided to do the loop around the outskirts of Pai, taking us to the canyon, across the WW2 memorial bridge and to the white Buddha. Our first stop at the canyon was amazing. We parked up and walked up a path leading us to the top where you look out across incredible views and winding red dust paths. We had a bit of a look around but a lot of the paths were ve...

Yesterday we made it to Pai! Our bus was supposed to pick us up between 9.30 and 10, but ended up arriving at 9! Luckily we had decided to get up early to get some breakfast so we were just about to walk out the door to our room when the lovely lady from reception knocked to let us know someone was there to pick us up! It was a really quick journey and we arrived after 3 hours, giving us most of the day in Pai. We had heard it was a bit of a rough trip, but apar...

The original plan for today was to find a songthaew and head up the mountains to see the Doi Suthep temple. However, after a slow start and realising it cost a bit more than we thought we decided to stay and explore the city a bit more. We spent the day wondering around the old city and the many temples there and people watching! Although we had stayed this extra day to make the most of Chiang Mai, it was actually quite nice to have a bit of a slow day. We had a...

Today, after all the stress, we were headed off to sort out visas! We got up early and got in the first songthaew we saw, which cost us 200, not too bad really. We arrived at the promenada shopping mall, where the immigration office is, just after 8 and there were already a lot of people there! We tried to finish filling in our forms, hoping to get some help but not getting any! Hoping we had filled everything in okay we joined the queue for tourist visa extensi...

Today was the day we went to see the elephants! We had decided to book the half day which gave us this morning to sort some bits out. We had found a photo shop close to us so decided to get our photos done ready for tomorrow. While these were being printed we went for some breakfast and then went back to pick them up. When we got back to the room we realised that although we had asked for the larger visa size photos they had only printed passport size again! Hop...