Ok, so I have now been in province of Chang Rai for over one week now and I love it up here! The weather is a bit cooler (still hot), the people very friendly, and the scenery is very beautiful. I have done so much over the last week. I arrived into the city of Chang Rai on the sunday 29th at 8:00 in the morning having just got off the overnight bus. I left Sing Buri at 5pm the previous day and spent the entire time travelling from Sing Buri to Bangkok then up...

I have been in Thailand for five weeks now. I have just finished a week of volunteering at the orphanage and I am knackered! I have spent the last 5 days making a level surface outside - to be an eating area. To create this we needed to make lots and lots of concrete. The concrete was created with bucket and spade - no cement mixer here!. To make the task even harder, the sun was out and temperatures are around 40 degrees. We averaged about 8 bags of cement a da...

ok, so it has been a few weeks since I last updated the blog. I am now back in Sing Buri after spending the last couple of weeks in different places. The first week was spent trekking in a National Park ("poi toi"?). This was in a very remote are of Thiland west of bangkok near the border. The journey was painful we were sat in the back of a truck with all our bags and the worst roads you can imagine. The journey was worth it though. When we actually...

I'm currentley sitting in an internet cafe with the hangover from hell! Serves me right for drinking too many cocktails last night. The highlight yesterday was the zoo. There were merecats, tigers, siberian tigers, lions, baby lions, baby tigers, orangutans, snakes, leopards, panthas and bears. The animals were more looked after than I expected. However, the caged tigers were not happy, pacing about in their cages and the orangutans were wearing cloths which I t...

Been in Thailand for almost two weeks now and I'm really enjoying it. Feels like I have done so much but I have so much to see and do - another 6 weeks in Thailand! The weather is very hot averaging at 40 and the mosquitos are liking the taste of my skin, no matter how much deet I cover myself with! But it is all good. The week has been a little more laid back the the previous (woo hoo!) It started on Monday with a visit from some monks from a neaby temple. We ...