Today was a very chilled day! We had no plans so decided to do a lap of the city. We stopped at various bars and coffee shops along the way and had a good time exploring the backstreets. We also ended up in a pet shop where Sarah fell in love with a little baby rabbit! We had a wonder around Chiang Mai park which was beautiful and stopped for some food and a beer in the late afternoon. We then both decided that our fee needed a rest so for £4 we each got an hou...

Yesterday we decided that we fancied seeing the pandas at the Chiang Mai zoo. It's one of only a handful of places that you can see them outside of China so it's a pretty rare opportunity. The zoo was great and in a good condition, it just needed a little bit of TLC around the edges and a lick of paint. The panda was very impressive although very sleepy but we were both excited that we had got to see one. Another highlight was that we got to feed the clouded leop...

Last night we had a few drinks and went to the Chiang Mai cabaret. It was hilarious! It consisted of a mixture of drag queens and lady boys dancing and miming to classic songs while running around the audience and getting people involved. We almost didn't stop laughing the whole time we were there! Today we went on a trek into the jungle with a company we found in town. We started off by drifting down the river on bamboo laughs, avoiding snake and rapids while t...

Sorry for the delay. We are still alive! We spent our last day in Bangkok doing a cycle/boat tour which was absolutely superb. We visited loads of little back streets which we would never have seen otherwise, toured all the small canals that surround the city and cycled through plantations which were absolutely beautiful. After the tour we headed back to the hotel for a last swim before heading to the bus station to start out journey to Chiang Mai. The bus was g...