BANGKOK (3RD TIME) 16TH - 19TH JANUARY 2007We arrived at Khoa San Road at about 7pm and stayed at Wild Orchard Guest House (280B per night) for three nights. Its so great to be back in Bangkok, the street food, the shopping, the amazing fresh orange juice you get in the morning, no wher else in the world can you get orange juice that tastes this good! So we've done a huge loop of southeast asia and we're back where we began!The shopping here is so good, the cloth...

CHIANG RAI 20TH-24TH NOVEMBER 2006 We left Pai on the 20th by local bus to Mae Malai (70B), then changed bus to fang (65B), then on a sawngtal to Tha Ton (20B), where we spent one night. seven and a half hours traverlling in all. The following morning we caught sawngtal to Mae Salong (60B), a pretty deserted town surrounded by lush green mountains. We stayed one night. On the 22nd we caught a bus to Chiang Rai . Chiang Rai is like a mini Chiang Mai, still a ci...

PAI 15TH-20TH NOVEMBER 2006 Pai ( pronouced like bye) is a small hippy town emanating very little Thainess at all. It is said to instead be 'a little corner of the worl that just happens to be in Thailand'. It attracts artists, musicians, and foodies and is in the middle of a gorgeous green valley with hot springs, rice fields and a lazy river. It is a very beautiful laid back place, with young puppies running in and out of most the bars but at the same ...

CHIANG MAI 13TH-15TH NOVEMBER 2006 Chiang Mai is more than 700km north west of Bangkok and Thailands second busiest city. It is full with lively gusthouses, bars, foodstalls, shops and is surrounded by a pleasent looking moat. It has a slower pace and is less hummid, has less tuk-tuk than Bangkok but is still full of pollution and tourists. There is a huge offering of massage course, cooking lessons and trecking tours in Chiang Mai, this is the reason most peopl...

UM PRANG 8TH-12TH NOVEMBER 2006 On the 8th of November we missioned it from Sukhothai to Um Prang. To do this we caught a cramped from Sukhothai to Mae Sot, which took about 3 hours. Then at Mae Sot we got a Sawngthaew, which is an open sided and backed government run truck, south 164km to Um Prang which took about 5 hours. This stretch of road use to be called the death highway because of the guerrilla activity in the area, but today lives are mainly lost throu...