Another early start, this time incredibly nauseous due to the Buckets of Thai beverage we had consumed the night before, for our trip to national park. We had heard good things about this place and felt it worth the three hour drive first thing in the morning. We met our tour guide, he never told us his name but he had a fairly large scar on his left cheek and no front teeth. However he seemed enthusiastic to get going which we were happy with. We took a precari...

When booking a flight, one doesn't necessarily think about what time one will need to be at the airport. We arose at 4:30am and flew to Krabi, on the coast in South Thailand. We remained bleary eyed for the entire day. Krabi has become a kind of transit town, where holiday makers jump on an off boats to the nearby islands for snorkelling and partying. It didn't seem to have much soul, but we did manage to locate a few nice coffee shops and some face cream without...

We arrived in Chiang Mai where we had booked a three day mini tour as a little treat. As this was a 'standard' rather than 'basic' trip, we were collected from the airport and dropped off at our rather lovely hotel. We spent the afternoon exploring Chiang Mai, which has somewhere over 300 temples. We got lost multiple times and came across several temples that were not on our map. After an early dinner of Phad Thai we headed to the hotel bar to indulge in some ov...

After an uneventful flight from Singapore to Bangkok we were welcomed at the airport by our private transfer driver. He was holding a sign for 'Gregory Davies', we assumed he was there for the both of us but as Claire's female, she didn't warrant her name on the card. He led us out to a back car park and loaded us and our luggage in his retro Volvo which choked into action after several turns of the key. We could have been in anyone's car being taken anywhere. Cl...