The plan had been to go to an elephant camp today but after a lot of research, chatting to locals & travel agencies we basically had two options; to pay an absolute fortune to go to a conservation & learn how to train elephants (meant to be amazing but very expensive when on a travellers budget!!) or go to a local camp whetre people say the elephants aren't so happy & do shows etc. We simply couldn't afford to go to the good place & didn't want to...

Decided to go up into the moutains of Chiang Mai today to see the Doi Suthep temple. We waved a songthaew down outside our hostel (basically a pick up truck with a roof and benches down the sides of the back as seats) - Nick baterred with the driver & they eventually agreed on 400 Baht for a return for the pair of us. About half way up the mountain the driver pulled over at a viewpoint where we could look back down over the city. We then continued up the rest...

Went for a BIG breakfast at the Irish pub down the road so that we were full up for the day (very yummy indeed). From there we walked to the Tha Pae Gate (the main enterence to the old city) before continuing on to Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Phra Singh before then experiencing Thailand rain, aka Fat Rain!!!!! It had been very hot and sunny all morning & the rain came out of no where. Once the rain had calmed down a bit we moved on to 3 Kings Monument in the centre...

Had a lazy morning following our late flight and check in last night. The owner had told us about the Chiang Mai Sunday marker so we had a brunch at a nearby pub/restaurant & made our way to that. On our way to the market we came across an older temple, it was so peaceful and so so beautiful - one of our favourites so far. The market was huge! We only got round about a quater of it! It had some great stalls & the art work for sale was amazing, wish we ha...

We had a lazy morning after our busy dat yesterday, checking out of our hostel at midday. With our massive backpackpacks on we made our way down Khoa San Rd in true back packer style, to Welcome Travel. We tried to book an overnight train to Chiang Mai but it was fully booked!!!! We looked into other options to get there and had the choice of bus or flight. The bus would have taken over 12 hours so we serched on the net and ended up booking ourselves onto a retur...