We were up at 4am today to get a bus to the airport for our flight to Phuket. We'd got most of our things ready lastnight so just pulled on our clothes & went to check out. We walked down to the bus stop at the end of khao san road and gathered with everyone else. Got to the airport and checked in, all very smooth and no delays! Flight went well, had to get one of those busses to the plane but still managed to get 2 emergency seats. When decending into Phuket...

A aldy met us in our hostel lobby at 7am & took us to our bus which was again full of some odd ones!! A group of Americans, a German couple, a whole Japanese family & a few odd travellers. We travelled 86km North of Bangkok & after an hours drive arrived at the old city - Ayuthaya & was met by our tour guide for the day, Mr Pok (he looked like Mr Miargi from the Karate kid lol, look at the photos!). The town was the capital of Thailand for 416 yea...

The manager at MD House organised us an airport taxi for 10am. When we got to the airport (when the slowest taxi driver in the world finally got us there!!) we saw our flight was delayed by almost 2 hours & we'd got there really flippin early too, sods law! When they finally opened check in we got rid of our big backpacks & went to a sports bar for some brunch. Didn't sit in exit seats on this flight as thought we'd try the normal seats & to Nick's ...

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...