After another great breakfast at 'Little Tibet' restaurant we bartered with a tuk tuk driver to take us to the hilltribe museum just out of Chiang Mai. However after about 10 minutes, clouds of smoke started to billow out of the engine and we had to pull over while the driver atempted a botch repair job, pouring pond water into the radiator! This was no good so we finished off the journey in a taxi thankfully. The hill tribe museum was in some kind of park wit...

Today we got up early as we had booked to do a Thai cookery course for the day. This began with us going to the local market where the teacher, Permpoon Nabnian pointed out all the different foods - rice, egg and glass noodles, different types of aubergine, pineapple and papaya and all the different types of rice. We then got in a truck with the 3 other people from our course - one guy from Spain, a girl from Vancouver (who has since given us her e-mail and invit...

Today we got up quite late - catching up on missed sleep from our trek! We then went and had a lovely breakfast at the cafe next to our guesthouse - museli, yoghurt and fresh fruit with toast and marmalade and freshly squeezed pinapple juice all for about 2 quid. After brekky we went to an internet cafe to catch up with all our journal writing - thanks for all the messages it's great to hear from you all, we look forward to logging on to see the messages people h...

We all slept a bit better in the second village and felt a bit more lively after our breakfast today. After breakfast we walked for about 20 minutes to a massive waterfall where Dave, Stu and Chris jumped into the pool at the bottom from a ledge about 10 metres off the ground. It was a big drop and Dave hurt his back a bit doing it but he's ok! Later we walked on to a restaurant where we had lunch - some slimy noodles, rice and fruit and after that off to ride ...

We were woken up this morning by Ray at 8am but everyone was really tired as noone had slept very well. Most people kept waking up in the night as the hard bamboo floor was really uncomfortable and it got incredibly cold in the night too. I had on my fleece, trousers, sleeping bag and blanket and was still cold!! When everyone slowly got out of bed we congregated around the fire where there was tea and coffee in big tin kettles and after that we sat down to a b...