This morning before our next day of trekking we went to visit the local monk at the temple in the village and then spent an hour at the local School with some of the school kids.The village was mainly a Catholic village, which was a little strange as 95% of Thailand are Buddhists, but in the village there was one monk who lived on his own in the temple. We took a walk up there with Sam our guide, who used to be a monk for a little while. When we got there the m...

Oh-oh, Alex I think was the loudest snorer but he did deny it and blame the girls who were upstairs. I am just glad that it wasn't me for once and I did try to sleep on my front all night so that I didn’t snore. Let’s hope he is not this bad every night as I have to spend the next 2 nights sleeping in the same room as him.At around 9am our transportation to the beginning of the trek arrived. It was a knackered old vehicle that can only be descr...

This morning we travelled north again to a town called Chiang Rai where we went to the Hill tribe museum run by the PDA (Population and community Development Association). At the museum we were shown a video of what to expect from the next three days of trekking and also told us about the hill tribe people and their cultures and also what we should and shouldn't do while there, for example, me and women (including married couples) do not sleep in the same ro...

As we were late getting off the train yesterday and had to reschedule things a little bit, we now have a free day today to do whatever we want. We couldn't decide what to do so we got out the guide book and found somewhere to go and get a proper breakfast. We found a place called "The (U.N.) Irish Bar and Bakery" in the book and headed off on foot trying our best to avoid all the Tuk-Tuk drivers asking us if we want a lift. It seemed strange to them that w...

As the train was late arriving in Chiang Mai today, the schedule has now been changed a little and we will be doing the elephant orphanage today and visiting the temple this afternoon instead of tomorrow, leaving us with a free day tomorrow....what will we do?After finally arriving 16 hours after we started off from Kanchanaburi we arrived in Chiang Mai and got transferred to our hotel, The People Place, and got showered and changed. Then a little behind our orig...