The train arrived in Chaing Mai at 8.30am and the night train journey was a lot better than I expected. I managed quite a bit of sleep on and off and made friends with a Thai girl who shared her sweets with me. We were taken to our guest house and we had some breakfast. The guest house is nice although you have to shower over the toilet and we have a room with no air con which in future I think id pay for. The five of us decided to go to the temple which was ab...

So today was the day where I joined my tour group. I was up at 6.30am so I could catch a taxi and drive across to the tour office where I picked up the bus. Checking out was fine, and I walked down to the Main Street to find a taxi. The lady at reception had told me that it was easy to find a taxi and there would be no problem. So I walked to the bottom of the hostel road and waited by the side of the road. The first three taxis refused to take me...didn't tell m...

My flight from Australia to Thailand was delayed an hour so I finally arrived at 2am. I decided to book a hotel near the airport (they picked me up and had a sin with my name on when I walked out in to arrivals...I felt special. Haha) and travel into the centre of Bangkok the following day. The hotel was amazing and I had a king size bed and check out was at 2pm so I had an amazing sleep! Travelled into Bangkok by taxi, the driver was like a crazy stig, weaving...

Sooo after queenstown it was time to start my trek back to Auckland. I had a different bus driver from Christchurch to Auckland called Jed and he was awesome. I said goodbye to Dave/Cuddles my driver for the whole of the South Island in queenstown. I sat at the front of the bus for all The journey as the bus was so quiet and I felt like a VIP and saw the views so much better. The route was queenstown to Christchurch to kaikoura to Wellington to Taupo and final...

Queenstown is awesome! We arrived in Queenstown after watching some people off our bus do a 43m bridge bungee jump. At first only one girl off the bus was set to do it and whilst we were watching another 10 or so people signed up! To be honest after watching it for 2 hours I was even considering it at one point. It is the smallest bungee in queenstown and I think if you don't look down and just do it after they count you down it seemed ok! Saying that one girl w...