We slept in until the mid morning and missed breakfast (which was ok because the buffet was nothing to write home about). Not sure of how to spend the morning we wandered about the town a bit more and watched the locals go about their business. If you make eye contact with almost anyone though, no matter how far away they were, they would run up to us to sell us something or offer us a tuk tuk ride somewhere. After a little while we decided to go and get a Thai...

Today we woke up early to head to the Elephant Nature Park (the reason why we came to Chiangmai). We were picked up by Mi who was one of the people who worked at the nature park. It took just over an hour to get to the park and during that time we watched a video about the park, what it does, purpose etc. Mi gave us a few tips and rules we should follow whilst at the park particularly mentioning Hope, one of the young male elephants in the park who is naughty and...

This morning we woke up refreshed by the nights sleep on the sleeper train from Bangkok (at least I was - Shaun didn't find the rocking of the train as soothing). In Chiangmai it was drizzling and we were met at the train station by our guide from The Elephant Nature Park - Mee (that is her name). We were taken to our hotel to check in. After the glamorous hotel back in Bangkok we were brought back to earth by the simple 'bare bones' of The Star Hotel. After fre...