Early start this morning after a really bad nights sleep. I was awoken at 0230 am by a chorus of roosters who carried on every hour until 6am, also I could hear a water buffalo outside my room and some pigs. I also thought I could hear the gibbons but it turns out to be some rats. The day started with a presentation on the elephants. There are currently 9 elephants Gvi have managed to bring back to the forest which are split into 3 heards. 1/. Thong Dee, Sa...

So I have made it to Huay Pakoot, it has taken 5 hours on very bumpy steep roads and I am feeling just a little car sick. On the way we made two stops the first at the beautiful wachirathan Waterfall were we had some photos and I encountered my first really Thai toilets. The second at this shack for food I thought I had ordered pork and rice and it actually was duck but you couldn't tell the difference. Arriving in Huay Pakoot was a relief for everyone and I w...

I'm here in Chiang Mai!!!! The flight over was ok, about 1 hour but I slept for nearly all of it. My arrival in Chiang Maj was a little stressful as there was no one there to pick me up, so I waited and waited and was just about to get in a taxi when a man runs over with a bit of paper, here was my lift half an hour late. There is a particular time zone here thai time where everywhere takes twice as long. However he did turn up and I waited for him to get the...

I have finally arrived in Bangkok after 13 hours of flying, 3 international airports, one very long wait in immigration and a drunken German. I have never been so pleased to have a shower and see a bed. So my day started with leaving Heathrow, checking in my backpack and praying to God that it would turn up to Bangkok and hopefully in one piece ( after the horror stories the check in assistant was telling me about cutting off straps and them busting open). The...