So a 23 hour bus ride to Cambodia awaited me today, and I wasn't exactly looking forward to it. My day at the hostel consisted of just chatting to people, eating food and lounging around before a bus came to pick me up at around 6ish. Another guy from my hostel called Jakub from Vancouver was also gettin the bus down to Bangkok which was good to know someone on such a long journey. But no one else I spoke to was getting the connecting bus to Siem Reap which was a...

Today was all pre-booked yesterday and I was heading to woody's elephant camp. It had been recommended as they've had the business in their family for years and they don't mistreat them at all which is a problem with the camps here sometimes. Anyway, I got picked up about 8 and Julian from the football had booked to come aswell which was good. We got into a taxi with 6 other people... Two more from France, two Dutch and two English. At the camp we were given clot...

So meditation is all finished with and I headed back to Chiang Mai, luckily they had some room. In my room were two guy from south Africa who were over in Thailand teaching English; anton and mark I think haha. Anton was going to get dinner so I joined him for pad Thai and had my first glass of coke in over ten days... Best coke ever!!! After dinner, anton was going to play snooker at a men's club but said they were going to see a football match later and invited...

... I finally got up about midday, bumped into Nicole and Tina who were gonna do a cooking course that night. So I put my name down aswell, then we just walked round chiang Mai for a long time as we got lost haha, tried and bought some local Thai fruit then went back to the hostel. We bumped into Matt from Canada, who I vaguely remembered meeting the night before and turns out he was staying at the same place. He put his name down for the cooking course aswell. ...

I put my stuff in my room and had a quick shower to freshen up, and then got talking to Sandy in my room, she's from San Diego. Then two girls from Canada, Rachel and vicky arrived aswell and they all seemed really nice. Anyway, I'd arranged to meet izzy and aphra so we went and booked a tuk tuk to go to tiger kingdom where you can go in and have your pictures took with the tigers. It was good but it's basically all it is as you literally go in and have your pi...