Day 120 - BangkokAnother lie in :) we have our breakfast/dinner and decide we should really go and see Khao San Road before we leave Bangkok so hop in a taxi outside the hotel.It is about a 10 minute drive from where we are staying and for some reason no matter what time of day it is here the traffic is really bad no wonder everyone drives scooters. We arrive at Khao San Road and are surprised at how small it actually is, you can walk from one end to the other i...

Day 119 - BangkokAhhhh a nice lie in this morning, havent had one of these for a while! We stroll down stairs for our brekkie and then get ready to head to the MBK centre for some shopping :)We wander around all of the markets that we have time for and barter ourselves a few bargains, its gotten to the point where Si says I'm too stubborn with my prices as I wont budge when I have a price in my head (get what I want most of the time though), the stalls start clo...

Day 118 - Chiang Mai - BangkokUp early again this morning, we're heading back to Bangkok today for our last few days of the trip and have to pack etc and we have both planned to get a tattoo done (naughty naughty). We head down for brekkie and then back up stairs to pack, Si started feeling a bit ill so when the guy came to pick us up for our tattoo's I went and Si stayed at the hostel hoping to be feeling a bit better by the time i'd finished having mine done.I...

Day 117 - Chiang MaiWe crawl out of bed as the alarm goes off, hating having to get up at this time (7am) but knowing that it'll be worth it. We get ready and head down stairs and are picked up by Jack from Patara Elephant Farm, we hop in the mini bus with 2 other couples and are taken to Patara. Along the way Jack stops at a stall at the side of the road to buy some banana's ... 6 bunches to be exact one for each of our elephants.About 30 mins later we arrive ...

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...