The next stop on our tour was Chiang Mai and we were traveling there by bus. We met at the bus stop at 10am and waited for the coach. When it came there looked to be a lot of people already on the bus. There weren't enough seats so most of us ended up sitting at the back of the bus on a flat platform that is usually reserved for monks. It was a bit of a squash but it was ok. At the next stop even more people got on and were stood in the aisles. Our guide explaine...

I woke up nice and early at 5am. I got up, packed my bags, checked out and got a taxi to the Stray Office. This was where I would meet my new tour group. Altogether there were 13 of us and our guide Charly. We signed some papers and then got in several taxis to the train station. There we had about 45 minutes to wait. At 8 o'clock an officer or gaurd started blowing his whistle. Everyone stopped and stood up. Some music started playing, it was the National Anthem...

I arrived at the airport and stood in a very long queue at passport control. I ewventually got through, collected my bag, got some money out and went to the door where hopefully someone would be waiting for me. There was, a Thai man in a suite holding a piece of paper with my name on. We walked to the road where we waited for the car to come. When it came it was a 1950's style car. The man lifted my bags into the car and opened the door for me. I went to put my s...

I think I managed to drive quite well even if I do say so myself! It was because I had Nikki and Nat using the ipod and giving me directions but it worked as we didnt get lost. First of all we picked up Jesse as he had come to meet us and then we drove to Coogee where Hannah lived. We parked outside her house and went in to say hello. She was very kindly letting us have access to her bathroom. Well we hadnt showered in 3 days! When we were all clean the plan was ...

We left Bendigo around lunchtime and set off to Albury. Nikki was driving to start with. We stopped about halfway for petrol and I took over the driving. We arrived in Albury about 5:30pm and just managed to buy a few bargains in the sales before the shops shut. We went into a British pub where it was steak night and had our dinner. We had to find somewhee to park our van overnight. We drove around for a bit and found a nice looking park with a BBQ area and t...