Day 116 - Chiang MaiAnother early start this morning as we are off to Siam Rice Thai cooking school. We've taken the advice of a few reviews and are skipping breakfast as whatever you make throughout the day you get to eat. One of the ingredients that he showed us he rubbed over my arm which stained it yellow ... it was tumeric!The owner of the school picks us up and takes us to a local market where he goes through a lot of the ingredients that we will be using...

Day 115 - Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai/Golden Triangle/Laos/Mae SaiUp ridiculously early this morning and cant even have breakfast as the kitchen isn't open until after we leave :(We get picked up from the hostel about 7:20am, continue picking people up and then change into a slightly bigger mini bus for our trip.First we set off for Chiang Rai which is about an hour and a half drive north from Chiang Mai with lots of hilly scenery to look at along the way. Our first s...

Day 114 - Chiang MaiWe're up and straight down for breakfast instantly realising that Chiang Mai is much cheaper than anywhere else we've been in Thailand, and then get ready for our day out as our 'driver' that Stella booked for us last night is picking us up at 10am.The driver is right on time and we make our way up the Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep temple which is right at the top of the Doi Suthep mountain. Pretty much as soon as we are out of the Old Town which i...

Day 113 - Bangkok - Chiang MaiAfter last nights events we look on the bright side that we got a nice lie in and got to sleep in a proper bed and have to get ready to go and get our flight to Chiang Mai (hopefully we'll get there this time).Not much packing was needed so we relaxed in the room until it was time to check out and then sat in the hotel restaurant for some grub and a few coffee's to pass some time until we had to make our way to the airport.We had loo...

Day 112 - BangkokAs we have a big day today we have to wake up to an alarm again but it's fairly painless and we're soon checking out and eating brekky/dinner.We leave the bags at the hotel and go for a wonder around Bangkok. we read about a cheap IT mall so went to check it out in the hope of finding a cheap Macbook, they are cheaper than home however they work out about the same price as back home with the student discount.We decided to hop on the subway and ge...