After a 12 hour bus journey we reached Chiang Mai this morning at 6am giving us 2hrs to nap before our tour of elephant trekking, bamboo rafting, hiking to and swimming in a waterfall and a local lunch in between. Christelle and I were given the smallest elephant but got to feed the biggest ones bananas at the end. The rafting on bamboo shoots was lots of fun and we shared it with a Canadian and German guy but had a Thai boy at the front steering. Our job was jus...

Today we woke up too late and missed breakfast so Me Christelle Alex and Alex's friend Denzel went for brunch at a gorgeous Thai restaurant and Alex treated is to a lovely foot massage before going to the airport (by Thai women, not by him). Feeling sorry for ourselves being left me and Christelle booked one more night at the Sofitel hotel which meant we could go for afternoon tea, and then for cocktails later in the evening. This resulted in us going out to Ko S...

For Alex's birthday meal his friend Denzel took us all to the Sky Bar at La Bua hotel, famous for where the Hangover 2 was filmed. We ate outside on the top floor overlooking Bangkok. After a concoction of champagne, cocktails, red wine, desert wine and two frangelico's we took a tuk tuk to another bar for more cocktails and shots and a sheesha :) ...and might of ended up in another club after that...

Arrived at the hotel really early (which btw is INCREDIBLE) so decided to wait for Christelle at the buffet breakfast....BAD idea...5 courses later Christelle and Alex arrived :) and we had a day by the pool catching up on sleep!

My gluten free meal...not quite the salmon tar tar and steak I had flying 1st class to America. But the flirting with the Chinese staff at china airlines wasnt as successful....