Being at the orphanage is amazing. We have decided to stay for two weeks instead of just 10 days, mainly because the water feature isnt finished but also because we want to spend some more time with the kids. We tend to get up about 9ish and have some breakfast of rice before heading to the orphanage for a couple of hours. The kids are up at 5am every day for their 'exercises', think zombie looking kids doing some stretching, and then head to school. So the mor...

We caught the 5.50am train to the Bangkok border which was busy but ok. We drifted in and out of sleep, everytime I awoke my mouth was wide open and I had someone different sitting next to me, so I've looked like a fool in front of many many Thais now! We got in a tuktuk to get from the train station to the border and were dropped at a house in the middle of a field being told that this was the Cambodian visa station. The guys tried to charge us $40 each and woul...

We were swiftly woken on the bus with cried of' last stop, everyone off'. Not the way you want to arrive in a city, at 5am and an hour ahead of schedule. I was having a suprisingly good sleep thank you very much! We were dropped at the end of Khao San Road which is the main backpacker road in Bangkok and lined with bars and a market 24 hours so finding someone to get a hostel recommendation was not an issue, even at this time of day. We got ourselves a room and p...

The trek was great fun! We found ourselves with four other people, a danish couple (married a month before and celebrating a 21st birthday while we were trekking...) and two danish sisters. All seemed sound so we set off to the local market which was being fumugated at the time and yet I saw the largest number of cockroaches I have ever seen! We drove next to a waterfall. Very nice but Alex and I had been rather spoilt by the ones in Luang Prabang so though nice...

Chiang Mai - Our first foray into Thailand and it doesnt disappoint! We got settled in, hit the food markets for some food and then watched the football. Standard. Then we decided to find somewhere for a drink.... We wandered sround for ages with all the bars empty apart from 40+ year old white men and 20 ish year old Thai girls. So wrong. Then we found somewhere which seemed a little more buzzing only to discover a Thai boxing match going on in the middle - m...