Okay, so I decided to do a ten day meditation course with the main advantage being that it was free! A bad reason I know, but I was also really interested in what I'd read about it. I got here on wed 23rd, and the course properly started on the Thursday. We got woken at 4am everyday, got fed twice, and then went to bed at 9pm. The day consisted of an average of about 10hours a day meditation and the purpose of this meditation is basically to get you to change ...

... 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...

I got to the train station and there was just loads of people sat around on the floor haha. I had no idea what platform I wanted or anything. Started scoping out people and noticed two white girls, asked them if they were going to chiang Mai, and luckily they were, sat with them until the train came in and told them that I was going to the "little bird guesthouse" in chiang Mai and they could join me if they wanted. So we all got on our separate carriages, and ...

So this morning we were all going to khao San road but before that I needed to go to the train station to buy my overnight train to chiang Mai. So I told everyone to wait at the hostel for me while I 'quickly' nipped to the train station.... Famous last words!!! I'd already learnt that the biggest hassle and hardest job over here is getting a decent taxi or tuk tuk to take you somewhere. The tuk tuk's all wanna rip you off by offering you great fares like 20ba...