We have had the best day ever! We were picked up by our minibus at 8 30 this morning with two american girls from our guesthouse. We made our way to maetong. we started our day at the elephant camp where we watched the elephants do tricks with their mohouts. It was amazing the elephants can paint! Yes they each painted a picture of themselves. I will upload the photos when i can find my lead. After the show i was able to ride on the elephants neck on my own. It ...

day 3 We arrived in Chiang mai today our train arrived 2 hours late. And because of that my legs have been bitten so much. The train was so nice we had a second class sleeper train the beds were very clean and nice a/c. We woke up to smokey mountains from the burning of the rice fields. we got talking to an american man and he suggested a few things for us to do. Once we arrived in chiang mai we made our way to The Green Tulip guest house- which is great. The ...

We woke up about 5 this morning and went to the tarin station to get oour tickets. Whilst waiting 2 policemen came inn and started blowing their whistles at first we thought there was a raid or something but no we were all ushered to stand up and listen to the national anthem, was strange. All the kids that were running around stopped dead in their tracks and looked up at the kings picture and stayed in that position until the end. Anyway the train journey was i...

Hey guys we have arrived safe and well. Driving into Bangkok was crazy the scenery is strange to say the least! They have tiny little wooden thai houses amongst a forest of sky scrapers! Little tiny shanti huts along the main motorway, children playing along the rail tracks. Any way we got off our lovely cool ac coach and were instantly bombarded by tuk tuk and taxi drivers insisting we need to go to the TAT office (Tourist authority Thailand) and that we could...