Songkran has started, unofficially! Headed off to get some breakfast and saw what looked like Bush, Bin Laden and someone else driving a big dumper truck with a VW Beetle shell on it firing water pistols at people. Everone is just running round with buckets of water and water pistols, big ones, small ones and even ones with 5-10 litre backpacks on them for extra water. It is absolutely bonkers. I decided to go and invest in a Supersoaker 1500 pump action. I wen...

Another lunchtime lie-in, that trek fair took it out of me! I was aching a bit here, there and everywhere. I decided to head into the centre and buy some more clothes as all im gonna be wearing this weekend is swimshorts, something that dries easily, as the Songkran is kicking off tomorrow. There's going to be a lot of water flying round over these next few days. By the time I got back it was near 6pm. I must have been wandering round for about 3 hours. I seem ...

I was woken around 7am to the sound of a cockerel doing its usual morning thing. Had breakfast then headed off from the village around 9am to do another 3 hours trekking, hard work given the heat that was coming down. Around 12.30pm we got to the elephant sanctuary and had some lunch. And guess what, there was rice somewhere in there with some spring rolls thrown in for good measure. At the entrance of this open building I noticed a monkey sat with a woman jus...

Got picked up at 9am by the tour guide dude and jumped in the back of the pick-up. I was the last pick up which, for me, is probably a good thing. There were 6 of us in the back going on the trip and we all introduced each other. There was an Aussie chick called Linda, 2 Irish lads and 2 Dutch guys, one who had a Dennis Bergkamp shaped head, I thought so anyway, but being Dutch made it even more so. We travelled for about one hour to a market to stock up on esse...

Woke up earlyish to me scratching my leg off, f***in' mozzies! I forget to put Deet on before bed but sleep under the mozzy net but still get a battering on my arms and legs! I rolled over and tried to bear it then got and straight to Boots for some cream. Chilled out for most of the day, the usual, breakfast then had a wander into the centre. Where the market is some of the smells that comes from some of the food is enough to make you gip! They eat some bizarre...