Another good but tiring day! I woke up at about 8.50am but we weren't leaving until 11ish, so I got up and dressed and made a cup of tea with the kettle which was on the embers of the previous night's fire. It was lovely and sunny and completely quiet because most people were still sleeping, so all I could hear was the waterfall. When everyone else was up we had some breakfast (eggs and toast - something Western!) and got ready to start trekking. The family th...

Best day so far I think! We woke up early and walked to the nice restaurant where we had lunch yesterday for breakfast, as it was much cheaper than paying for breakfast at the hotel. I had pancakes and honey which was really nice. We have to leave our big bags and passports in a big store room and lockers while we are on the trek. We were loaded into the back of a truck thing and the guides stood on the back just holding on, even though we had a half an hour jou...

Hello again - I'm doing quite well so far at writing this everyday! I last left you on the bus, where I was for a total of 10 hours. The ladyboy served us a snack of a Yakult and a 'filled bun' (mine was Milky Custard and Vix's was a more unusual Mung Bean). We arrived in Chiang Mai at 5.45am, it was still dark and we were a bit worried about how we were going to find our hostel, but luckily there was a man holding a card with our names on it. Us and two boys w...

It was our last day in Bangkok today for the time being. Our night last night wasn't particularly heavy but we woke up feeling quite tired and rough, probably because we were drinking cheap beer. There wasn't time to shower before check out so we quickly had some breakfast and left our bags in reception. We had planned to go the the Grand Palace, but you need to be modestly dressed so I borrowed a scarf from Vix and we bought some 'gap yah' trousers (basicall...

Our first proper day as travellers! We woke up at around 9.30am which was good as it meant our bodies had adjusted to the time, and went downstairs in the hostel for our free breakfast. I went for a noodle soup which was really spicy - a strange thing to have for breakfast! We then headed to the skytrain and then got a bus which took us close to Khao San road - the main backpacker road. We took a double room in the first hostel we found because it is high seaso...