Chiang Mai My last couple of days in Thailand were spent counting down the hours until my flight to India. I don't think there is really anything worthy of writing about, but I wanted to make an entry to complete the route. I made use of my spare time to use the internet, book a couple of trains for India, and to chill out. When it was time to go to the airport I found a tuk-tuk and negotiated a very reasonable price. Half way there I realised that I had left m...

Pai (4 nights) As you can see from the location map, Pai is north west of Chiang Mai, close to the Myanmar (Burma) border. The bus journey from Chiang Mai took us around 3 hours and involved roughly 600 hairpin bends! Several of our party, me, John, Aroo, and Matt, were turning green. We had met a couple of Ozzy girls, Rachel and Annika on the bus and when we arrived they already had friends there who could direct us toward the best accommodation. The four of ...

Chiang Mai (3 nights) Ok, so I am struggling to catch up with myself before I fly to India tonight (10th Jan). This will have to be very very brief. Day 1 The 3 of us, me, John, an American from texas who has his own ranch, and Aroo, a Sri Lankan- Canadian who lives in Toronto, went to Tiger Kingdom. It was not a good idea. The tigers are all sedated and in very boring looking cages. It was wonderful to see these amazing animals close up, but terrible to see t...

New Year in Bangkok I arrived at my fancy pants hostel in Bangkok around 13.00pm after 7 hours on two ferries, 5 hours wait at a train station, 12 hours on a train, then a metro, then a skytrain. Easy! It was a pretty cool place, with small, clean, dorm rooms and a couple of communal areas downstairs. It was located in a more central part of the city and when I looked up where the big celebrations were going to be, I found they were only a mile further down the ...

Goodbye Koh Tao I got up feeling a bit unwell. My ear (the one I had problems equalising while diving the previous day) felt strange, as if it was clogged. I had a late breakfast and booked my ferry ticket for the 30th. I bumped into a Dutch girl called Marit, who me and the fins had become friends with. She was heading to the North of the island to meet some friends and I decided to go along. We spent a bit of time up there on the rocks by the sea. I tried a b...