Had an early start. The hotel made breakfast earlier especially for us, bless them. It was a traditional Thai breakfast which was weird but nice. Just wasn't used to having meat and rice first thing in the morning. The tour people didn't pick us up until half an hour later than they were supposed to. We were getting worried as we had changed hotels and thought they might have gone to our old hotel instead. It was a long journey up to Chiang Rai. We visited vari...

Moved hotels today which was a huge hassle! The taxi driver said it was too far for him to go so we had to go into the city first. We decided to grab some breakfast while we were there. Got another taxi to the new hotel, BED. It's so so nice! So so cheap too, too cheap! They provide free tea, coffee, hot chocolate and water. The owner who is from Amsterdam is really lovely. He drove us to the shopping mall which wasn't far to walk but it was raining so bless h...

An early start, we got a taxi to the city where we were going to be picked up for our day trip. When we arrived we found out that we were half an hour too early! But never mind, better early than late anyway. It was a very long journey to the jungle place. Kept falling asleep! Early mornings and long journeys definitely do not mix lol! Once we arrived we had some hot chocolate. Before coming to Thailand I never thought I'd ever drink hot chocolate or any other ...

Went to Breakfast World cafe for our breakfast. There were so so many different kinds of breakfasts! Stuck to the typical English breakfast though. Checked out all the different activities to do around Chiang Mai. Booked one for tomorrow - jungle trekking and then ziplining. Should be good. We wanted to go to Tiger Kingdom to see the tigers so we paid 1000 bahts (approx £20) each. But once we arrived we were told that it wasn't valid and we were only able to b...

Our last day with the elephants today :( The same routine as yesterday. Instead of having to wash and scrub three big elephants, we had a treat and washed a smaller elephant, Soi, who is only 6. After that we washed Monica, the baby elephant who is so cute! She rolled in poo after being washed so we had to wash her again! But of course we didn't mind! We walked the elephants for the last time. Unfortunately as we were nearing the river an elephant, Yitor, who ...