Arrived in Chiang Mai in yesterday afternoon and got dropped of at our hostel (SoHostel). Impressive building and common areas, very modern. Staying in a 12 bedded dorm, basic but has four walls which is a step up from what we have just been sleeping in. No rest for the wicked though, we got some washing on and headed straight out to the train station to book our tickets for our night train to Bangkok. Then it was planning what to do with our time here in Chia...

So my week of volunteering, I don't even know where to begin as it was just so amazing and for sure a favourite part of my travels. So... Elephant Nature Park, is a sanctuary for abused and injured domestic elephants who have been rescued. Sorry but this is going to be a long one, it's hard to talk about the week without really going into why it matters. The sanctuary was set up by a lady called Lek Chailert, who at 16 found her calling, and is honestly one of t...

Arrived in Krabi last night. First impressions are good. The hostel we stayed at, Sleep club is amazing, so rustic and cool interior, right up my street. We all watched a film last night as too tired to do anything else. We got told off for being too loud, well not us the DVD. We thought how old we are that we aren't being told off for being drunk and noisy, but just for the tv being too loud haha. Also I'm really not good at getting down from the top bunk. Wen...

So yesterday was Lindsey's birthday, and we spent the day on Railay beach. Which is a few beaches cut off by huge rocks, so the only way to get to it is by taxi boat (200baht return - not bad). Spent the day on Phra Nang beach, which really was beautiful. Little crowed and not as good sand as Koh Lipe. But the landscape was just incredible. Being able to see all the rock formations, never seen a beach like it, and we even swam all the way round one of the rocks i...

So yesterday was eventful. Left Sarah in bed for the day and me and Chels did some shopping. Chels was feeling a bit run down and had a sore throat. So on the way back to the hostel to check on Sarah we got caught in some rain and decided to stop off at a pharmacy to see if they had anything for chels. Which was actually a clinic, thank god as chels fell so ill all of a sudden. Well 6 hours, lots of insurance phone calls and an antibiotic drip later and chels mad...