We've been sampling the local delights of Chian Mai over the past couple of days! The night bazaar is enormous! We had some delicious 'Northern Sausage' and banana pancake there as well as a foot massage! Today we've been to visit Dr Fish! This involved putting our feet in a tank full of tiny fish which come along and basically hoover your feet getting rid of all of the dead skin! It was a very strange experience and we spent most of the time laughing at the...

Chiangmai Trek - Day 3 Today was amazing! I couldn't get out of bed to start with because it was so cold, and I was the last one up as I always seem to be! We started off with breakfast around the fire watching our guides build our bamboo rafts that we would be sailing on! The raft consisted of 15 bamboo sticks roped together! We had 2 rafts for our group of 10, 5 on each. It was an amazing trip, the scenery was breathtaking, proper jungle! It felt like a ...

Chiangmai Trek Day 2 We all got up around 7am after no sleep and Tri had breakfast on the table for us which consisted of toast and fruit, not the traditional Thai breakfast I had expected but very welcome just the same. We were told that we had 4 hours worth of trekking in the morning followed by 2 hours in the afternoon. I thought this would be fine, but I wasn't prepared for how tough it would be. We had 2 guides with us (2 Thai men with machettes - to cut...

Just arrived in an internet cafe following a well deserved foot massage at the sunday market in Chiangmai! It really was well deserved! We've just returned from a 3 day trek through the jungle of Chiangmai organised by our hostel, "Eagle House". I was not prepared for the type of trek that we were about to endure. I thought I was fit before I did this, but any exercise I've done before does not compare! Day 1 We started off nicely, a truck arrived...

Beth and I have just signed up to go on a 3 day hill trek! Loads of walking, some elephant trekking and bamboo rafting! We get all of our meals cooked for us so will hopefully try some local Thai food. I'm not looking forward to the walking part much but the rest sounds like good fun! We flew into Chiang Mai this morning from Bangkok. The two places are soooo different. I think I'm going to like Chiang Mai more than Bangkok. The heat is very different up here, n...