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...

Today was supposed to be quite a chilled day, getting passport photos for Shane and taking our visas to the office for them to sort, however this wasn't really the case! Finding somewhere for Shane to get his photos took about an hour and a half, as we just couldn't seem to find one of the photo shops that are supposed to be all over the old town! This did mean we got to walk around and see quite a bit, including a Buddhist procession which was quite cool to watc...

Today we got a tuk tuk into town for our bus to Chiang Mai. We got in a bit early so we could grab some breakfast and then got on our bus at 9.15. The journey wasn't too bad and we arrived around 1ish. Another tuk tuk and we arrived at our hotel. It is quite a quirky place, which also advertises itself as a museum. Every inch of the place is full of old memorabilia, particularly related to coca cola! We went for a walk into town to get our bearings, heading int...