The next day, the pick up truck arrived with Sam and Henry already inside. We then picked up an Irish couple, 2 French guys and a French guy with his mum. They turned out to be really nice as we quickly made friends over the next couple of days. After a kerfuffle with our luggage (I thought they would take them from us instantly, but they locked them in a shop later on in our trek) we set off. After an hour bumpy trek, we arrived at a butterfly farm which was u...

I slept really badly for some reason, despite being exhausted as the train was bumpy and cold. We finally arrived in Chiang Mai at 8:30 in the morning, thirteen hours later, and made our way to a taxi. Only 20 minutes later, we found our way to Baan Khun, our first dorm hostel. We went for a brief walk around, saw a temple, got some antibiotics for my painful wisdom tooth (it looked slightly infected) and then chilled at the hostel while Charlotte had a nap. When...

We slept relatively well in the D&D inn, despite Gemma sleep talking and taking the register in the middle of the night. Oddly Charlotte and I played along and replied 'yes Gem, we are here' in our sleep. We checked out at 12 and found Sam and Henry still in bed hungover as they had continued the evening the night before and had claimed to eat scorpion and tarantula. The fact that the video 'lost battery' the second before Sam actually put it in his mouth i...

After another uneventful journey (this time no turbulence) we finally made it to Bangkok airport. We were supposed to meet my friend Sam from home and his friend Henry so we could share a taxi to the centre but our flight was late and they had already left without us. After a panicky 10 minutes of navigating the customs and baggage reclaim, which were surprisingly misleading, we finally made it out to the entrance hall. We quickly went to the nearest ATM, logged ...