just a quickie folks we are back in bangkok today we have been on another riverboat trip and went to see the grand palace, this place was worth a visit it was massive and beautiful, some of it was closed off to the public though because the kings sister has died and her body is lying in state in one of the temples so u cannot go in. the emerald budda was quality it must be priceless beacause it is made from pure emerald and the temple it is in is covered in diamo...

right folks since the last update we have been on a thai cooking course in chaing mai our teacher was a ladyboy called waa waa it was a bit of a strange one but hey the food tasted good and we are now handy thai chefs, later that day we went to the temple doi suithep, its on the top of a mountain overlloking chaing mai and contains the ashes of the original budda apparently, it was a very holy place and the monks were chanting and stuff it was defo worth the visi...

so anyway carrying on from erin we set off to our rafthouse its was class and it was big there was a big room where we ate and it had a bar and thai disco at nite with a bit of kareoke.There was a big room in the middle where we all slept and out the back was the sunbathing area and swimming bit where u could jump off into the river kwai, along the way we stopped at sum temples one of them was in a cave in a mountain where apparently a dragon lived? anyway the ra...

HI everyone. We are now in Kanchaburi. On our last day in Bangkok we went on a longtail boat to the Wat Po temple which was really good and then we got on a bus to Kanchaburi where we are staying for a few nights with our treking group, it is right next to the river Kwai and the bridge over it is so cool, we walked all the way over. Today we went to this amazing place called Erawan national Park where we climbed up seven levels of waterfall it was aright trek but...

hello everyone we arrived in bangkok yesterday afternoon, and its hot! this place is mental the roads are so busy and its hard trying not to get mowed down by tuk tuks, we are on the koh san rd its a bit like coventry market and magaluff rolled into one, so me and erin went iut to sample the goods on our first nite and sank a few jars to make us sleep easy. everything is really cheap and the hostel is suprisingly good, anyway will let u know more when our trip re...