Day 22 Today was a pretty free day, did a bit of shopping and got my suit fitted before going out to eat at a BBQ Grill house. Andy and I also booked a visit to the Aquarium for tomorrow. Day 23 We got up and checked out at 11 and got a taxi to the centre of bangkok. There are 4 huge shopping centres here, one full of expensive shops, one food, one was closed and the other was full of smaller shops and market stalls. We went into the food one as the aquarium...

Day 17 part 2 We ate that night at an Italian restaurant and were told about options during our trek the following days. After eating we went to watch Muay Thai boxing for a couple of hours before going back to the hotel. Day 18 We met 'Sunny' the guide at 9am and he introduced us to our guide for the trek who works for him. His name was Suryan and we set off toward the trek starting point. On the way we stopped at a market for Suryan to buy food to cook us...

Day 14 We were up early to get a bus to Luang Prabang further north in Laos. We set off and about 1hr later (of a 7 hour journey) we got stuck in traffic. A small sized petrol tanker had fallen in a ditch and there was a crane in the middle of the road trying to pull it out. We were stuck here for about an hour before setting off again. We drove for another 3 hours before stopping for some lunch, I got a tuna sandwich and then it began to rain a bit. The roads h...

Day 6 Had a lie in today until 10pm, dropped some laundry off and went out to get some lunch in the town. At 1pm we met up with Anne (mother of Welsh family) and got a bus to the Floating Village. As we got there it started to rain; which was ok as we had a roof on the boat. The driver took us 8km down the river to the village itself which is on the lake. When we got there we were taken to a shop to look around, followed by the local floating school where we me...