<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 31 May Today we started with our first class of Thai traditional massage, were up at 07h00 to finish up before heading out to Banana guest house for a disappointing omelet. (I think the owner was definitely still drunk from last night). Afterwards we head to the massage school where our class starts at 09h00. At first everything is too much and it feels like an information overloa...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 30 May The next morning we were up at 09h00, not as much sleep as we would have wanted to have but we had to be out of the room at 11h00. We headed down to reception, our package had made provision that the hotel would drop us off at the train station upon our return. We were however staying longer to do a 5 day Thai massage course and wanted them to drop us off at our new accommodatio...

29 May Early the morning I was awakened by a pig and a dog fighting in our bungalow, after this I varied between lying awake and sleeping for the last 2 hours before rising for breakfast, again toast and jam. We packed our bags, greeted our hosts before embarking on the final 2 &frac12; hours. The walk back was incredibly picturesque, characterized by lush woodlands. We stopped at the village "7/11" where we bought water while waiting to be ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 28 May We woke up to the calls for breakfast of the guide, got dressed and headed for fresh coffee. Breakfast was fire grilled toast with some type of fruit jam. After breakfast we headed out on the trek, having greeted the other group and two Germans from our group who were now heading back. The trek was tiring but the pace was not really that fast, the guide however made a point ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 27 May We packed our bags for the trek and left the rest at reception and headed down for breakfast at the hotel. We both opted for a full English breakfast having a long day ahead of us. The guides drove us per "sanwa" to a market where we bought some water and they bought the foodsupplies for the day's trek before going on the bamboo rafting. We all put on our swimming gear...