friday 18th aug - chaing mai day 1 of the hilltribe trek... at 830 after breakfast we left the hotel in chiang mai and headed for another local market. started the trek at the international park of thailand and headed for a big waterfall. after some more sweaty trekking we had a picnic lunch of noddles before the hardcore trek for 5hours over all kinds of terrain...rainforest, jungle, steep hills, mud, through rice paddy fields. finally arrived at the h...

thursday 17th july - chaing mai arrived at the chaing mai hotel at 7am, and was pleased to find out that they had a swimming pool.picked up at 830 as we all booked onto a thai cookery class at the best school on the country apparently. first we went to a local market to pick up fresh ingredients, and so they could explain what all the ingredients were. the market was a bit gross they had fish stalls where they would chuck the fish on the floor and then wack ...