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...

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...