When we arrived in Chiang Rai we stayed at Akha River House. The place is run by Akha tribes people & they run Akha Hill House up in the mountains & run trekking from there, which we wanted to do. We stayed there in Chiang Rai that night as truck would come & collect us from there & take us up to the hill house at 4.30pm the next day. So that day we explored Chiang Rai. It isn't very big so we managed to walk around it all pretty much! Then we...

On the road to Chiang Rai. After spending a day & a night in Chiang Mai we are now on a coach to Chiang Rai. We decided we liked Chiang Mai as soon as we arrived. We picked a hotel out of our lonely planet book & got a tuk tuk over to the hotel. Tri Gong Residence. Our room was simple but clean so we were pleased. We went out to explore the city seeing various wat's & more Buddha's! Everyone in Chiang Mai wanted to talk to Dando. A guy from Ph...

Hello! Been in Thailand for 5 days now & finally have wifi! We stayed in the poshest hotel I have ever seen in Bangkok & had a great time. We went to see all the touristy things like the grand palace & the emerald Buddha, we also visited wat pho where the massive reclining Buddha is & wat Arun which was a Khmer style temple which Dando climbed right to the top of! We also visited Chinatown which was fun as we basically wandered around never ...