Day 29: 7/7/2013 We didn't need to set any alarm this morning as there were roosters, dogs, people and machinery all in action by 5am! We didn't have to be up until half six. We could see the woman of the house with the baby when we had to walk outside to the bathroom. Otherwise we didn't really mix with the family at all. I thought we would be with the family all the time, rather than being at a community centre all the time. But it was still good. We went to th...

Day 28: 5/7/13 We had some free time this morning so we didn't have to be up at all hours! We were up by 9 anyway and we went to the Palace. When we were jjst leaving the hotel one of the women was coming out of a tuc-tuc from the palace. She reccommended getting a tuc-tuc as it was confusing to get there, so we did that. I think the driver drove around in a bit of a circle but we had agreed on a dollar before we left anyway, so that's all he got! Annmarie had to...

Day 27: 5/7/13 The air conditioning wasn't great last night either so we were well sweaty by this morning! Channa had told us that the sun rose at 5. Our hotel was by a river and we had a balcony looking out over it so I set the alarm for 5 so I could see it, but it was still dark at 5 and there was a really bright street light shining towards the window so the sunset wouldn't have been great anyway! I lay down again and checked out the window around twenty past...

Day 26: 4/7/13 The airconditioning wasn't working in our room last night so the sweat was out through us! We didn't really realise that it was broken when we went to bed but we woke up in a sweat! I didn't feel great either, same as last night- a funny tummy. I took an Imodium as I didn't want any innocents on a 6 hour bus journey, but I don't think I'm that bad. We were up and off at 6:45 this morning. We had to walk out to the top of the road and a bus picked...

Day 25: 3/7/13 We weren't leaving until one today so we could sleep in a bit. I woke around half nine and had to take my malaria tablet. Lots of people on the tour aren't bothering with them at all actually. Anyway, I stayed awake then and caught up on a good few of the blogs. We left at 1 and went to a silk farm. They showed us the mulberry bush and the little silkworms. They were on a tray with leaves from the mulberry bush - they looked like little maggots! ...