BANGKOK - part 2 - the End of the Asian Experience. As our time in Asia draws to an end, we decide to mark this with a few more days of fun and frolics on Khao San Road - more shopping for us and presents for the folks back home - Credit cards to the ready! We even manage to meet up with our mate from Vang Vieng, Guy, and have a few beers, which is cool. Not much more to add to Bangkok part 1 as it was just as before (same same but different as they say out...

CHIANG MAI We arrive in Chiang Mai a little worse for wear after our long journey out of Laos so we catch up on a little sleep before we set out to have a look around this very historic city. We are a little surprised at Chiang Mai as we were both expecting it to look very ancient - a walled city with monks everywhere - and while there is a lot of history here and loads of monks too, the city on first glance appears to be a modern Thai city, with the usual amount...

THAILAND BANGKOK - part 1 (15 Dec - 18 Dec) We arrive in Bangkok at 5.30 am on the overnight bus, which does the usual trick of dropping us miles from anywhere so that we have to let the local transport make some cash out of us. However despite having the cash and being willing to pay we are unable to find a cab driver willing to take us into the City! We eventually persuade one to take us into town in his pimp-mobile but he will not put the meter on, so he names...

BACK AT THE BEACH - THAILAND Just a brief journal from the beautiful beaches of Thailand as we are obviously far too busy being very lazy again to write nice long journal entries just to make you lot jealous on a dark winter day at home in Blighty...We are currently in Kata, Phuket which is a fairly standard nice holiday resort (apart from all the working girls and a few lady boys) from where we visited the gorgeous island of Ko Phi Phi. We liked it so much ...