The Thai boxing match was awesome - started off with little kids kicking each other until they passed out, and then moving slowly up through the weight catagories. Thai boxing is one of the most brutal sports i've seen! In 7 matches we saw, we wittnessed 4 knockouts! All of the knocked out stone cold - brilliant! Also saw a swedish thai boxer kick the living daylights out of a small thai guy who was a champion - kind of unfair as the swedish guy was about 4 times...

Having arrived in Chiang Mai on Thai new years eve, all the fun started! The whole city just goes absolutely mental! Chiang Mai is surrounded on all four sides by moats, and has rivers running through it. Literally all the moats, rivers, hoses, taps, any water you can lay your hands on get chucked about. Within one step of stepping out of our guesthouse, we were completely drenched from head to toe. Spent the next two days chucking buckets of water around Chiang ...

... Day 4 - River Kwai Today we went to the Erwan Waterfalls, which was my favorite part of the trip so far. It really was amazing - crystal clear water which you could swim in and climb all over the rocks... Paradise! There were 7 'steps' in the waterfall, so it was quite a hike up to the top, but well worth it. Had a really cooling swim up the top with amazing views of the valleys. Got some amazing pics but am trying to upload them with varying success...

Bangkok to River Kwae Day 1 - Landed in Bangkok at 3:30pm - the airport is amazing. Brand new and felt like you were in an art gallery rather than an airport - statue's everywhere and very clean and organised.. not what i was expecting at all! In the airport I met a guy called Taffy (28, From Ponty Pridd??? South Wales), who like me was travelling alone, and hadn't got a clue where he was going. We got a bus into town - much cheaper than taxi, and very e...