<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 26 May We had breakfast after waking up just after 10h00, and headed off to walk through the old city district of Chiang Mai and find new accommodation as well as a massage school where we could do a week class of deep Thai massage in the Northern style. After wandering around while comparing places and still deciding whether to go to Laos or not, we found a place. The woman taught at ...

25 May Aboard the train we settled in for some reading until 01h00 before trying to get some sleep. Lying on the small mattress, I decide to sleep with my backpack at my legs considering it has our passports, camera and laptop in and not wanting to leave it in the isle where it could easily be stolen.Neither Leanne nor myself had a good night sleep, the lights shone in over her curtain and my bed had more metal than mattress. At least I got some sleep from...

24 MayUp at 08h30, we head for 7/11 where we stock up on water and yogurt which we enjoy at the taxi rank before heading to Wat Phra Si Sanphet, a monastery built in the early 1300. After the invasion by the Burmese much of the temple was destroyed but some of it still remained. The most revered sight on these ruins is the Buddha head engulfed in the roots of a tree, many postcards often show monks praying at this site with their orange garments. The story goes t...

23 MayWe're up early packing and getting everything ready to make the early bus leaving at 09h20. A full English breakfast for myself and muesli and fruit for Leanne before we take a taxi to the bus station. We arrive at 09h15, but the bus has already left and the next one is only 09h40, which actually only leaves at 10h00 to Supanburi where we have to get on another bus going to Ayutthaya. We had hardly disembarked from the bus at Supanburi when a man came waivi...

22 May Up at 07h00 we have breakfast before heading to the bus station, there we wait for over an hour for the "every 20 minutes" bus to pick us up for Erawan Falls. At last the bus arrives, picks us up and drives 2 km onwards before stopping and trying to tell us that another one is on its way and will be there in 5 minutes. Confused but at least knowing that the bus will come as the driver is waiting with us. 5 minutes late we're on the new bus and ...