Having survived a 6 hour bus ride to Chiang Mai, we arrived in time for bed! Saturday morning we were picked up for our 3 day Trek. 1st stop was a local market to pick up supplies. We went for a wonder and came across some pretty strange things, including a bowl full of live frogs!! We then got dropped off with our 2 guides at our starting point. In total their were 9 of us in our group, with 2 guides, Jo Jo and Mr Son. We walked about 12km that first day, stoppi...

We've had a very hot!!! couple of days, I'm constantly trying to think up ways of getting portable air con!! We left Bangkok (well tried to!) on Tuesday. We had seats booked on a train to take us to LopBuri at 10:45am, it was only supposed to be a 2 hour journey, to get us there in plenty of time, to look around. 10:45 came and went and an announcement was made the train would be 20 mins late. An hour later and yet another announcement was made, to say a further ...

We were up very early for our flight to Sydney, we then had a 5 hour wait for our connecting flight to Bangkok, so pretty much exactly 24hours after leaving our hostel in Fiji, we were checking in to our hostel in Bangkok - well trying to. Dave and I had planned ahead knowing our flight would get us in in the early hours, we wanted to make sure we had a bed! With Dan changing his plans, he changed this booking over the phone in New Zealand, to make sure he too ha...

Well paradise started off wet - very wet! Our flight from Auckland to Nadi was very special as we had the New Zealand Maori Rugby team on board, much to the pleasure of all the females!! When we arrived we were greeted with a shell necklace and packed off to our hostel for the night. The following day we caught our 4 hour ferry to the Yasawa islands and our resort Long beach - which lived up to its name. Unfortunately our first few days were spent getting rained ...

We well and truly pampered our aching bones in the spa before ending up to the bar for a few pints.The following day we made our way to Auckland, where us girlie's participated in some much needed retail therapy before hitting the town. Lets just say we made the most of the cheap drinks and fascinated locals with our tropical way of speaking. We excited a couple of girls by saying we had come up from the South Island but when they heard we were actually from Engl...