Another day, another adventure! Today direct from the sleeper train from Chaing Mai we disembark at AYUTTHYA station. It's 5am so we spend the next hour fending off TUK TUK men and people watch until it's light enough for us to walk 6:30am we wander into the BAAN EVE and set about sleeping on our bags waiting for a noon check in. The man of the residence is pottering about he signs us in a shows us to a room. Yes bed, yes sleep, yes grateful. 10am we wake, drink ...

Chiang Mai and jungle trek After a night chugging along on the sleeper train we arrived in Chiang Mai and were picked up by our car!!! We were taken to the office for a briefing on our jungle trek!!! We listened to Mr Pon and were given a list of things to take. He also gave us a map of Chiang Mai and some tips on what to see. We decided that after checking in to our guest house we would visit the famous temple at the top of the mountain; Wat Phra Thad Doi Suthe...

After some serious flight time we eventually arrived in Bangkok. It was 10am but we were still running on UK / Africa time so it was only 3am in our world. Half asleep we headed for the toilet to change * hot outside and set about getting to the city by train. Easy enough direct underground from airport terminal. We had booked a hotel last minute at Heathrow and luckily this was needed for landing card details!! Once out of the station we set about walking to the...

Day on English Soil......... well a few hours flight to Thailand

This leg of the journey was an after thought really, it seemed criminal to be so close, to have seen South Africa's other 2 natural wonders and not go to Cape Town for no. 3 We headed into the Joburg flight centre ( once again another great service from a young lady) and we were booked. 3 days and 3 nights staying at the Harbour Bridge Hotel. We bid our farewells to Lee-Ann and family as they all set of for school...(lee-Ann and Lauren came back and dropped us to...