So we are still catching up a little, we left off on a bit of a bad note on the last blog but dont worry i made a full recovery when we got to Thailand and am back to eating 6 meals a day :) After spending a few days in Bangkok (just escaping the floods) we headed down to Thailands gulf coast islands for some R & R. After a gruelling 18 hour journey we arrived in Koh Samui at Lamai beach, it was ok but the area was slightly baron with not much more than a mon...

Finally managed to get the photos from the last 2/3 weeks uploaded to the blog after some technical difficulties! Since the last post we've made our way up from Sukhothai to Chiang Mai where we embarked on a 3 day trek to stay with the 'hilltribes'. The trekking was great fun, through the jungle to waterfalls, with the very comical guide occaisonally stopping to pick up a huge angry spider or feed us tree bark. The hilltribe on the other hand was in reality an ol...

Well our first week in Thailand has seen loads. Grand Buddhist temples, a tiger canyon, monkeys, crystal clear waterfalls and street food a plenty! not to mention the incredibly nice people and more geckos than you can shake a dragonfly at... Making our way north from Bangkok via Kanachaburi(bridge over the river Kwai), Erawan Waterfalls(national park), Ayutthaya (ancient capital) we're now stopping in Sukhothai(an even more ancient capital) to rest up before he...