We had about 10 hours to kill in Bangkok before our bus/ferry to Koh Toa, so we headed straight for our favorite place - Terminal 21 mall! Free wifi, amazing bathrooms, good food, and air conditioning made for a great place to spend 10 hours :) We even went to a movie (Safe House in English) it was really good, and the chairs were very comfortable too. Then we spent some time around Koh San road drinking Singha beer and eating red curry before another long journe...

So we had a few free days in Chiang Mai before visiting the elephants so we took in a Muay Thai boxing match which was good fun to watch, its really hard to tell the ages of the people over here but they all looked so young! On the second day I did a cooking class and learnt how to make made phad thai, banana spring rolls and panang curry all from fresh local ingredients from scratch while Cynthia relaxed and slept off her cold. Later that evening we headed to th...

Saw -waa-dee-kaaaa.....(hello) we made it! We landed in Bangkok on time and navigated our way to the hotel with some help from a few friendly Thais. The hotel is great and one of the more "luxury" (hot water, air con, pool) places we will be staying in I'm sure! We lounged by the pool for about a hour and then showered and got ready to go out for dinner. Having no clue which way to turn outside of our hotel we walked for about a block and soon turned ...