The bloke who was taking us on the trip (who by the way is a big fat liar!) had told us the day before about the itinerary. Firstly he said going to see some elephants and maybe sit on them a bit, then a couple of hours to walk up a mountain and see some impressive views, an hour to walk down again to a village were we meet a tribe and stay there that night. Then the next day walk for about two hours to see a waterfall, another hour to meet another tribe and the...

Hi everyone, we're still in Chiang Mai, but we won't be able to update the site for a few days, so we thought we'd let you know our plans for the next 3-4 days. Tomorrow, we're up early to go on a 2 day, 1 night trek through Northern Thailand. We expect to go on an elephant ride, bamboo rafts on the river and visit and stay overnight with some of the hill tribes in Thailand, lots of walking involved, luckily we can leave our backpacks at the guesthouse! We...

We arrived in Chiang Mai this morning after travelling up overnight on the train. Staying in BANANA guesthouse much to Becky's amusement (pah!). Had a walk round today, was lovely in the day, but is Thai bride and dirty old men capital of a night, so we're not going mad like we did in Bangkok!! Good thing really, need to give the liver a rest. More soon xxxx