Today I woke up from one of the worst nights of food poisoning in my life. I felt really drained, lethargic and weak. I went looking for some better Accomodation - my own bathroom etc but unfortunately everything was booked out again. Still feeling affects of the food poisoning I decided to stay put where I was and spend the day doing very little. The nice lady where I was staying made me some warm ginger tea that she explained would ease the pain in my belly. ...

Today I was up at 5:30am to catch the 7am local bus to Pai. I walked to the station and managed to arrive just in time to get a seat. The minibus was rough and they jam packed it with people. I was squished on the backseat with 4 big ladies and a baby and the whole experience was anything but pleasant. What was supposed to take 3 hours ended up taking 5 hours. My first impressions of Pai are quite good, very touristy - more hippy touristic like, loads of guest ...

Last night I got absolutely canned by Mosquitos - so much so that I barely got a wink of sleep which made for a lazy morning. I met up with a mate from England today (I had met him last year on a Pueblo Ingles program). I took him down to the local markets where we had a bit of a look around and got some lunch from the food market. The rest of the afternoon we wondered around Chiang Mai. Seen this crazy drunk guy try and hit another Thai guy with a bamboo stick ...

Today I decided to sleep in and have a very easy going day. I caught up on a few emails etc and then myself Kosta and Matt made our way to the street markets for lunch. I got myself the chicken and pork blood curry like usual. Next we headed to the Op shops - very cool here loads of interesting clothes at ridiculously cheap prices. The rest of the afternoon we spent at Kosta's hostel playing pool and chilling out. To be honest I am getting a little board here ...

Day 3 Trekking After a brilliant nights sleep well compared to the previous nights sleep I was up at 7am ready to go on our last day of trekking! After breakfast we made our way to the Elephant camp and straight away we went for our Elephant ride. It was ok nothing to amazing - it was basically a seat attached to an elephant with a piece of rope across it. It was a little scary at points and all in all quite relaxing the elephant went into and along the river a...