Da da da daah, da da da da daaa...Just call me Indiana Jones. Just spent two days trekking in the mountains south of Chiang Mai, facing many near death experiences, I made it through - but not entirely unscathed! Am covered in scratches and bites and now smell liked I showered in germoline. Was definitely worth it though. Day one - we went to and orchid and butterfly farm (which was frankly pretty crap) then drove into mountains and started a 4 hour near vertica...

Disaster has struck - my hairdryer has has blown up, in addition my red/pink hair has now gone a rather murky rhubarb colour, and on top of that I have no make up - so please don't judge me by any of the pics you see over the next 3 months, it's not going to be a pretty sight! That aside, the first 3 days in Chiang Mai have been great. It's been 32-34c every day (I have burnt my left shoulder - another good look I'm sporting). The Loi Kratong festival is curren...

Arrived in Chiang Mai this morning and have fallen in love with the place already. Firstly because I actually managed to book a hotel that's not in the middle of nowhere! Secondly it's a lot more rural and laid back than Bangkok. It's about 30c and we are currently sitting in a bar (this is not all we do by the way...sometimes we sleep). I actually decided not to have a beer so went for a Thai ice tea - error! It's a nuclear orange coloured milky drink that tast...

Its our third day in Bangkok and its been, uh...an experience!! Our hotel is miles away from the centre of Bangkok (thanks Hotels.com!) but its pretty nice and is opposite a night market which has an array of ropey looKing foodstuffs - which i will be eating within the week no doubt! On our first day we walked around for a while before we realised there is nothing around here and there were a lot of Thai people staring at us (probably thinking why the hell are t...