Saturday 1st Novemeber - Head to Hanoi Vietnam After our biggest journey yet of 26 hours which was supposed to have been 24 hours, we finally arrived in Hanoi. Wow what a crazy place and we thought Bangkok was busy!!!! Our coach finally dropped us off and it felt like we were in the middle of knowhere!! 9pm dark, and not a clue where we are, out came our guide book "The Old Quarter" was where it was at. After walking around for about ten minutes ...

Luang Prabang - Laos - Sunday 25th October Arrival at destination 6 hour later, after a very long and cramped 2nd day on the slow boat we finally reached Lunag Prabang in Laos, this is a very beautiful quaint village which is slightly less developed than Chiang Mai, but still very pretty!! Managed to find a guest house not too far from the boat of which we negotiated a good price for, 200 Bht per night which is equiv to 4 Pound - bargain!! We met a really nice...

Monday 19th - Begin the Trek...!!! Two days and 1 night, early start for us, up and had breakfast and ready to go at 9am. Got taken on a jeep for 40 mins to a local market where we picked up suppplies for our trekking experience. As RAT was fully prepared no need for supplies!! Oooo get us!! There was 6 of us in our group, this is where we met Kyle and Eden from Arizona/America and Linda and koon from The Netherlands. After our supply stop we drove for a fu...

Friday 17th - On ward journey to Chiang Mai! After be picked up from our hotel we finally arrived at the train station 45 minutes later to depart on our train to Chiang Mai!! When looking at the tickets for which platform we needed, we discovered that we were at opposite ends of the carridge - (T in seat 1 R in Seat 27!!!) Marvellous!! AFter finding our platform we boarded the train and awaited departure time of 7.35pm, only an hour and half to wait!!! Better t...

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. TUESDAY - Got up early for our morning all inclusive breakfast buffett, so much to choose from Bonus!! Chilled by the pool although not much sun on Tuesday. Grrrrr...!!! Met a lovely girl Becky on Tue night after chatting gave us a few tips as to how to get to Chang Mai, really brave she was out here alone, although had done a similar route a few years ago. The evening continued with a few cocktails and a traditional ...