hey, arrived in Chiang mai from Bangkok after 12 hours on the bus! sad to say goodbye to another city n sad to day goodbye to cthal dave and marie, had a great few dayswith them!! Shaena came with us too which is great, the more the merrier!! the bus journey wasnt too bad actually, they turned off the lights like half an hour in which was bout 7 o clock so that was a bit of a disaster way too early to sleep n u cudnt read or anything!! so we were tryin to entertain ourselves in the dark, which turned out to be very funny actually!! after stoppin in a really dodgey place alondg the road for ven dodgier food we all took a sleepim tablet n conked till we arrived which was the job!! just had a mooch around the place 2day takin it easy coz were goin on a 2day trek 2moro!! shud b good!!