We arrived at Cliff Cottages where we were stay around 8pm (3hrs late thanks to the awesome bus service and border control). We had booked a bamboo cottage on Bang Bao beach for a couple of nights, the "cottage" was more like a shed. All it had was a fan and a bed, but what else do you need? And we only paid £4 a night so... The next day we hired some snorkels and took advantage of the rocky bay that we were staying around, we spent over 3 hours just swimming ar...

We got to Chiang Rai via bus it took about 4 hrs from Chiang Mai. We were due to stay with the Akha hill tribe in the mountains. Our transport picked us up from the Akha river house hotel, it was a Toyota Hilux pick up the drive strapped our luggage to the roof and we had to stand in the back! It had been raining earlier in the day but luckily for our bags it didn't rain for our journey. It took about an hour to get up to the tribe on some very iffy roads and...