22nd june this morning, jo, me and laura met down stairs in the lobby to get hiking over to our new hotel (which if u remember from the last blog we were meant to be there last night but we had to move from because of intrepid messing up) and arrived backpacks and all at about half 6 to get picked up from our new hotel to go on a trip to the floating markets, and river kwae. so after we got picked up we had a bit of a tour of bangkok before an hours drive out to...

june 21st ok so last time i updated this we were in a train station waiting to get an over night train up to bangkok. well we waited a bit more and got on it and headed up on our way. these trains were full of beds, bunk beds and i got the short straw and ended up on the top bunk. the beds were quite comfy but a bit small so even short people like myself couldn't actually sit up when on the bunkbed. by the time we got our bags but away and sorted out we pretty m...

june 17th got up after a bit of lie in (well it was for everyone else - i was up and wide awake at 8 am) so had a leisurely breakfast before catching a car thing like a ute to the bus station where we had a military operation in place. we took over the platform that the bus was coming to and then as soon as it arrived the girls saved 13 seats and then the boys put all the rucksacks on. the reason for the military style operation was beacuse it was so busy! the b...

June 13th got up and had a malasian style breakfast which was rottie and dahl and some other sweet things. generally very nice but a bit strange. we then got on a boat to a village and had a tour around there and were told about the style of houses as well as some of the herbs that they use. we then headed off on a trek throught the jungle up to a waterfall. on the way we were greeted by some natives in the form of leeches. not nice. had to burn them off. then w...

June 10th Got up and checked out and got a taxi to the bus station where we had breakfast that was a weird bread cake thing that had mashed potatoe and chicken in it. strange but tasted ok. got on the bus and had a 3 hour trp to KL - kuala lumpur. we got there and had a couple of hours to sort stuff out and get some lunch from the local market beofre we were to start a tour of KL. got some new sunnies which i paid 3 quid for was very happy with that and then we ...