Hello all. I am in koh samui at the mo which is a small island just off the thai mainland. We spent monday and tuesday at khao sok national park which was amazing. It was hard to believe that it could be part of the same country as Bangkok. We stayed in tree houses in the jungle next to an amazing river and spent most of our time on a rope swing jumping into the water. On tuesday we went down to the river and saw loads of monkeys jumping of trees into the water, ...

Back in Bangkok again and unsuprisingly it is just as smoggy and dirty as it was when we left it! Im much more able to deal with it now though as the rest of north thailand is exactly the same. We went to the Grand Palace today but weren't able to get in because there was a Thai festival in progress. Not too bothered though, it saved us some money and we saw the outside anyway. We went out last night and had a really good time. Somehow we managed to find a b...

We are in Chaing Rai at the moment which is the most northern city in Thailand. We visited the main attraction here, the Golden Triangle yesterday and are staying in central Chaing Rai. The Golden triangle is where you can stand and see Burma and Laos from Thailand. As you can probably tell from the picture above, the views are far from breathtaking and we were a little bit dissapointed, mainly because we travelled for six hours to get here! At least we can say w...

Hello again. We have just got back from our trek and im very tired! The trek itself was quite demanding but easily do-able, unfortunately however, the scenery wasn't great, we saw a few huts, rice fields and hills but most of the way we were watching our feet so as not to trip over the vines. On the first day we did an elephant trek which was really fun, walked for about four hours up steep hills and arrived at our hut which was situated right by a waterfall...

Hello hello. Thanks for all your messages, its really good being able to tell you what i do just after i have done it! We went to Ayutthaya yesterday which is filled with loads of old temples and elephants on the roads. We had a fantastic tour guide who taught us a lot about ancient Thailand,it was really interesting. Our train to Chang Mai last night was three hours slower than expected so all in all we were on the train for 15 hours! Suprisingly, however, i s...