back to bloody hot bankok now for christmas eve eve (23rd) till the 27th of december. we left all our group members (apart from mick who we couldn't seem to shake!) and veingtai hotel in the familar surroundings of our previous trip. mick stayed with us until he had to fly out that night back to sunny old scotland! so in the meantime we had to find our new hotle which took us about 1 hour to find becasue we just walked and walked until we saw a swasadee hotel! ...

chiang mai is one of Thialands largest cities and was once the capital before Bankok. its a huge place thats most famous for its night markets. thiese are on every night and last till early hours of the morning. we figured out our way around and headed for a bar, suprise suprise. josh went for his hair cut that nearly went horribly wrong while we (me, mick and jen) sat down and drank a couple of bevvies. we had a few games of pool and drank cheep beer. after th...

we woke up early to head out to a mushroom farm. this was going to be good *Yawn*. we allgot on our bikes and made our way around a couple of temples where we got to one where it had a pond full of giant catfish. and i mean giant! there were about 30 of them just fighting for bread that we'd taken with us. we had a look around the temple and after about 30 mins we were off again this time towards a mushroom farm. they took us round and showed us how they grew t...

after getting off the songthai we arrived at the Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) it was the first one in thialand to have govenment funding for rehabiliating elephants. some they can set back out into the wild others thay'll keep becasue they may be too injured or become too acustomed to being hand fed and not having to forage. as soon as you see them up close you really notice how chuffing big and how strong they are. one mangaed to grab hold of my wrist whi...

in lampang we arrived at our guesthouse that was down some alleyway but had a huge gate and some double decked accomodation that was japanese style. after settling in we made a move for the streets, this was quite a walk away and we easyily got lost even with our well detailed photocopied map! after a breif walk around a couple of the girls fancied a massage while the rest of us left them speeding away in a Tuk Tuk while we went in search of the internet. after ...