On day 2 of the trekking, we were awoken early by the cockerals. After an hour's trekking, we reached a waterfall. Due to the current of the waterfall, we were able to slide down the river with the currents. After a fun 5 minutes, we suddenly realised that all 3 of us were covered in Leeches! We screamed and shouted and ran to the waterfal to wash them off! We then trekked to another Karen village for lunch. A wedding was taking place, and we were lucky enough t...

That morning, we met our tour group. The 5 of us were myself, Emma, Mark (from the taxi the previous day) and a couple: Andras (Hungarian) and Lorena (Spanish). They were tour guides in their late 20s and both spoke fluent Spanish, giving me an opportunity to practice mine for South America. We took a taxi ride to the jungle where we got on our elephants. Mark and I sat in the chair on the back, whilst Emma perilously hung on to the neck. We fed it bananas and b...

We arrived at the Holiday Garden View Hostel at 11 and spent the day recovering from the train journey. Having finally had a full night's sleep, both Emma and I were completely knackered. We met Mark on the taxi (essentialy a pick-up truck) from the train station. We quickly realised we had very similar plans and that we would be trekking together. The three of us grabbed a tuk tuk around the town to see the Buddhist temples and the sunday afternoon market. T...

We spent an hour wondering through the streets of Bangkok until, at 8am, we decided to grab a drink and a bite to eat. Me and Emma were still with Liane and Leo at this point. After a bit we dumped our stuff in Liane's hotel room and went out into the city. There was a massive market open, so we went to that and bought plenty of stuff... when i can put photos up, I'll show it all to you. When we left, we walked past some famous thai teenagers who were all in some...

We woke up early in the morning for one last ride on the bike before returning it. After yesterday's pothole incident, I was terrified the convenience store girl was gonna notice some damage. Fortunately it was fine and i didn't have to pay extra. We spent the rest of the day travelling to Bangkok. firstly, we took a boat to Surantahi and then a couple of buses up north. During the bus journey up north, we stopped off at midnight as we did on the way down to Koh...