Hi - well now we are in Laos but we didn't get a chance to update our blog in Chiang Mai before we left so we will backtrack before we bring you up to date. The day after the tigers (15/03) we actually spent the day in Chiang Mai having a look at the city and exploring. This followed an extremely long lie in which, believe it or not, we haven't had very many of since we've come away! The town is quite old and divided in to the new town and the old town which is s...

So we arrived in Chiang Mai after a 15 hour overnight train journey from Bangkok. The train was pleasantly nicer than the ones in China - much more room to spread out and we each had a private bed with a curtain around it for privacy. It had AC too which was soooo much better as it's hot here! When we arrived in Chaing Mai the weather was noticeable cooler than Bangkok and quite overcast - we were warned that it might be quite smoggy because of the slash and bu...

Hello from Bangkok! As we didn't write the blog in Bangkok before, we just thought we would let you know what we did here before we left for Koh Chang island! We became acquainted with the Bangkok Skytrain which is a great idea and really cheap and literally built overground throughout the city. It costs about 60p each for a one way ticket in to Siam which is the main area of Bangkok. We went there on the first day and just walked around to get a feel for the c...

Written by Holly Hello! We are so sorry that we haven't updated our blog for ages, unfortunately we have been on a castaway island without any internet so you will have to forgive us! After Hong Kong we decided to fly directly to Bangkok which was a good idea as we were desperate for a beach after trekking through China for 3 weeks. When we arrived it was HOT, so humid and muggy and a bit of a shock to the system after being cold for so long! We took a taxi fro...