The next morning, we had planned to leave Chiang Mai and possibly head north, but since we'd had so much fun in town so far and really enjoyed the relaxed and fun atmosphere, we decided to book in to Green Tulip in our penthouse room for a couple more nights. We were also feeling rather tired after our busy day (and night) and thought we could do with a day relaxing. Our only real plan for the day was to arrange some mountain biking for the next day, but jus...

We got up early the next morning and packed our bags up as we had decided to treat ourselves to an air conditioned room for the night after our trek, having found the fan room we'd been in just slightly too warm during the night. We left the bags in our room and headed downstairs for a quick breakfast, then the guide from our trek turned up to pick us up. A pair of English girls, Courtney and Holly, and a New Zealand couple, Chris and Vashti, were also going ...

We got on the sleeper train to Chiang Mai in Bangkok and found our seats, in a pleasantly clean carriage with lots of space for us to sit opposite each other at the window. We were soon on our way, passing through the outskirts of Bangkok for quite some time, with lots of run down shacks right up against the tracks, people's houses and shops between the railway line and the buildings behind.We selected some food for dinner from the 'Bogie Gourmet' menu presented ...