Managing to sleep in until about 8am was a bonus as I still had another 7 hours on the train. The train arrived about two hours late into Chiang Mai making it a 17hour train ride. First thing I did was make my way to a hostel, I found a decent one for about $3 a night. Next I went off exploring markets. I was walking along the street when I hear someone call my name out - Carissa holly s*** what a suprise :) I new they were here but certainly was not expecting ...

Ok so today is my last day in Bangkok and I am lucky enough to be able to spend whole day at hotel before catching my 10pm train to Chiang Mai. Checkout was at 12pm so I sleapt in and then got organized, I went to the fitness centre and then spent the rest of the afternoon in the pool and sun baking. Later in the afternoon I walked to supermarket and picked up supplies and then made my way to train station. Unfortunately my designated carriage was full so I mad...

After sleeping on a chair lastnight and getting absolutely eaten alive by Mosquitos I am very excited to be going to a 5 star hotel tonight! My friend and I decided to check in early and make the most of the royal treatment! We arrived at 11am to some wonderful welcome drinks and made our way straight to the pool. Right next to the rooftop pool was a small fitness centre - I couldn't resist I had to go do a quick workout as this was a rare opportunity to use a ...

So after one of the longest nights of my life standing up and being shoved around for 13 hours I made it to Bangkok. I made my way to my friends house and picked up so breakfast which consisted of a curry and rice and some kind of sweet rice and fruit mix. After arriving at my friends place I went straight to sleep and didn't get up to later in the afternoon. In the evening we met up with 4 new Couchsurfers that were staying at Goys and had dinner together. A f...

Today the aim is to get back to Bangkok so I was up at 7am and ready to roll after 3.5 hours sleep. First mission getting to Phuket town; first I had to walk to outskirts of Patong Beach and flag down a Songtheaw this took quiet a while but eventually I got one. Arriving into Phuket town I asked about 6 people where abouts bus station was and was given 6 different answers, after an hour wondering around I hopped in a taxi bus and they dropped me at station 5km o...