Our last day in Chiang Mai today. We've really enjoyed this city. So chilled and calm but with plenty going on. We started the day by going to Doi Suthep, a village on a nearby hill with a temple at the top. The views were spectacular! You could see the whole of Chiang Mai. As for the temple, it was a climb up 300 steps which was great exercise to help burn off our McDonalds and pizza from the day before. The temples are beginning to look very samey though which...

Going out for drinks the night before didn't seem such a good idea the morning after. Well I say morning, I mean 3pm. Oops! It's tiring being a traveller and hangovers are so much worse in 30 degree humid heat. For a few days now I have been craving pizza and so what better excuse than being hungover. I think it was the cheese and tomato combo that I was craving as they don't appear in Thai cooking. Nothing else to report for the day other than my pizza was muc...

ELEPHANT DAY!! One of the things I was most looking forward to about Thailand was seeing some elephants. I did a lot of research into the different places that keep elephants as being an animal lover, it had to be somewhere that really cared for the animals and didn't treat them as tourist entertainment, which unfortunately a lot of places do. I found Elephant Nature Park! The reviews were really positive and my friend Trina has visited and confirmed to me how a...

We had a free morning on the 9th so took to trip advisor to find something to do. Tripadvisor and booking.com have been our life savers so far on this trip. The reviews are always honest. We headed to a 3D art museum which had great reviews and seemed a good way to pass the time. It was basically a selection of wall and floor paintings that you could get involved in. We pretended to be surfers, fire breathers, divers etc. It was a little overpriced (£8 which h...

The nights sleep on the sleeper train wasn't that bad. I was really surprised as I thought I'd probably be awake half of the night. I had earplugs in and the train wasn't rattling along the track so got quite a few hours sleep. We arrived into Chiang Mai at around 7:30am. Walking out of the station we were greeted by a crowd of taxi and tuk tuk drivers all attempting to get business off tired travellers. Thankfully we had transport to our next hotel already arra...