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...