The accomadation at the village homestay was better than i expecte.d. Although you only had a mat on the floor for a bed and cold bug infested showers, it was clean and everyone was really friendly. For tea we were treated to a traditional Northern Thai Khantoke dinner accompanied by live music. Afterwards we had the chance to test our skills on the strange Thai instruments. After tea everyone headed outside and sat in a circle. Here we got free Head and Shoulder...

As we arrived at the elephant sanctuary we immediately got our first sighting. It was a bunch of mybe 5 or 6 elephants tied up to a tree. The first thing that strikes your attention is the sheer size of them! They stand about twice your height and could crush you with their baby toe. As we headed deeper inside the sanctuary we realised that the place was packed with them, all congregating down by the wateringhole for their daily bath. ASround 20 elephants enter...

We arrived at Sukhothai after the train journey and after a few people visited the 'happy room' (toilet) we jumped on a couple of Songthai's and headed for J and J's guesthouse. After Jack introduced his furry monkey to Jen we sat down and had a group meal, drinking the cheap Chang Beer (6.4%) which we would eventually come to live off in Thailand. After necking a few we starte a game of spoons. For anyone one who hasn't played its basically a game where a few sp...

We arrived in Bangkok on the famous Khao SAn road in the early hours of the morning to a startling wake up when a guy ran on our bus screaming everyone off now. At first i thought we were being hijacked then i realised that we were finally there. I was the first to react and therefore first off the bus, as i stepped off i got swarmed by TukTuk drivers all trying to start conversations and rip us off. After a 2 minute walk we came to our hotel (Viengtai Hotel), th...