well i survived the trek!! just about!! didnt realise it was goin to be soooo hard!! 3 hours of uphill sorry up mountain walkin!! 5kms of it!!!! finally got to the hillside village got clean n dry, well abit!! had dinner with veryone that was on the trek which was cool but that was it was so tired i cudnt function n had to try n get some sleep, on the floor of a hut mind u!! got up the next day to trek back down for 2 hours! took a short brek at a gorgeous waterfall n then we got to the elephants, which at the start was really scary bein up that high n we werent exactly on level ground but pnce it leveld out it wasnt thta scary n i loved it!! soo cool!! got back to the hostel at bout half 4, never so tired n dirty n achey in all my life!! still ahvent recoverd dont no if my legs are ever goin to be the same!! just chilling out in chaing mai for a few day n we're oft to laos tomorrow, well we get a bus tomorrow to the border, stay there for the night then on sunday get the slow boat to laos which is gonna take us 2 days!! we;ll see then from there!!