Chiang Mai: We arrived in Chiang Mai at around 7am after a pretty awful overnight coach journey.We had planned (and was looking forward) to taking the overnight sleeper train, but tickets were already sold out for that night.We were told the overnight coach is even quicker, but were then mis-sold the coach seats, which we supposed to be reclining.Instead they were in the lower deck, with far less space, and massive sacks of rice in the aisles!Journey over,...

Kanchanaburi: We got up early on Monday (21st Feb) to catch our train to Kanchanaburi, but despite giving ourselves and hour to get to the station, the Bangkok traffic had other ideas, and we missed our train by 5 minutes. The next train was in 6 hours! Luckily we found out there was a more regular bus service, which actually took an hour less than the train - good result. We arrived at Kanchanaburi around mid-day and it felt even hotter than Bangkok (36 ...