hello!

arrived back from our trip this morning at 6.00am into bangkok on the overnight train, chaing mai was increadable... we staying in a really nice hotel in chaing mai for our first night , then on the second day we took a pick up truck with a roof in the pick up bit of the truck (very strang) all the way up to the jungle area of northan thialand! I (Sarah) was car sick and looked green all the way up the windy roads! we stopped at an amazing waterfall for a swim and kodak moments! check out pics! then we went further up into the jungle where we got out and started our trek... it was hot, humid and tough - i think sta travel should put a warning on the trip...something like YOU MUST BE REASONABLY FIT, having not done any exercise for months you can imagin the moaning and sweating - haha! yuck! it was really hard going treking - the gound was loose and leaves everywhere, you had to constanly concentrate on every step you made. one slip and you would be tumbling down the side of a mountain!!! ah! i have known sian for 5 years now and on this trek i found out a new thing about her... she was so funny, the whole of the trek sian gave the whole group a running comentry on how she was walking...in terms of random noises - she could take one step with out an ohhh or ahhh or whooops or owch or ahw! so so funny! and you all know how i hate spiders well the jungle was infested with them i was so scared all the way, then we had to walk past a huge funnel web spiders web - oh my budda!!!!!! as they say here! sian turned round to me and tried to calm me down but by then i had worked my self up and just started crying, as sian says, like a little girl!! i just point blank refused to walk past it! oh dear! but our trek l.eader help me and took me round passed it - i made such a fuss and was so embarrased after...not sure what the other people on the team thought of us - we are a right pair! after about 2.5 hours treking we reached our first village - talk about primative - no running water and no proper electricty but check out our amazing wooden hut that we slept in - it was amazing! the people that live in this village dont even speak thia they have their own language, there were animal running around every where - pigs, chickens, puppies! it was so cool! we then helped with the cooking - we ate a beautiful traditional thia dinner and then sat by the camp fire under start chatting about teh opium and weed trade of thialand through the ages with our trek leaders! felt super hippy or what! the toilet was bit scanky tho and me and sian decided to be smelly instead of using the ice cold water to was with! pongy!staying in a wooden hut then it was an early start in the morning for more treking! 4.5 hours teck up hill - feelling the burning in your legs so bad they were shaking at each water stop! contined on next blog.... xxxx