first few days

So last week friday, i got on the bus to Pia alone. I met an American girl called Kate and we sat next to each other. She was travelling alone as well as me and looking for accommodation, so we decided to share as its busy in Pia this weekend.
Well after a long and winding road we arrived in Pia at 9pm and got some place to stay called Paddy fields just 10 min out of town, so nice in the middle of mountains and fields. We stayed a bamboo hut which was lovely and a toilet and shower out side. i have never seen a bathroom so artistic, it was made of bamboo surrounding and tress and leaves with a luxury hot shower. i should have taken photo forgot oh well.

So the guy who owned this place was english, i heard people get stuck in this place called Pia fro some time but when he said 8 years i just could not stop laughing. Even funnier. well he also before that got stuck in pakistan yes (Pakistan) for 2 years because its so nice uhmmm?? well maybe its some thing worth giving a go i never knew this could be a place to travel but so funny how do you get stuck some where for this long?
Well me and kate took the first day shopping and by accident met a welsh girl trying on some shorts and she met an English lad a few days ago so we all hooked up and went out on the piss. some of us closer than other ha if ya know what i mean. (not me of course) i was glued to the amazing band they had playing in a place called Phu Pai, sort of indian gipsy music brilliant!! any way so of course i then spent the next day in bed hung over, did a little site seeing at grand canyon and chucked up over the side oops. It was high!!
Monday we all 4 of us went water rafting and met a Scottish lad called craig. so there we were a boat filled with England scotland wales and america hand in hand side by side. We all fell out the boat at some point so clumsy, we spent the hole day going round in circles while the thai boats carried on in front line, of course we had such a laugh. i Saw two monkey playing in the wild!!! and two really nice birds cant remember name. Very popular name?????

Any way keep to shorter, Kate and Sean went after that and it was me Welsh and Craig we went on motor bikes for the day around Pia saw the petty water fall and boiling eggs in the hot springs ha and then went to the hot spars for a soak how hard was that!!

Nest day every one has gone and i was sick with some bug so i spent 22 hours in my bamboo hut down at pia river lodge, where the thai people looked after me there. Brought me flowers smiles! so relaxed time. Then the last days inPai i had a ride up to a good water fall with thia called Yom who worked at Pia river lodge and then went to a swimming pool surrounded by mountains for the rest of the day, so southing and relaxing did not want to come here back to Chain mai. But here i am, nothing better to do than write very fast blog ha ha. well im off to elephant sanctuary 2 moro to volunteer with the poor little elephants who loosed a leg in mines and have been mistreated ah bless then so lovely. oh and then back to bangkok one big horrible place but only to go tiger sanctuary and watch the tigers be exploited chained up for us to see, i know its terrible but i want to see it any way then maybe i can make judgment in that. so safe respect and so long fare well xxx

Ok so i went elephant ridding, trekking, rafting and seen the tribal people and stayed in their houses for 3 days.

Day one we went a ride on elephants fro about one hour, which was great. Elephants are so lovely. I brought a big bunch of bananas to feed Nelly the elephant and they were gone with in the first 5 mins of the walk, he was so cheeky and if i did mot give him a banana he would walk up to the edge of the mountain until you give them one ha ha.

We then walked for about 3 hours in the rain forest to the first villi age, it was a pretty hard walk and most up hill but very energising with an amazing view.
There was a group of two Irish, two Ozzy's one Holland woman, 2 Germans, to from Brussels and one french Canadian. We all got along great and had some laughs.

The first night we stayed in a bamboo hut in a villi age where all natives are living day in day out its miles from anything and reaches -7 at about 4am. Blooming cold even with full clothes and 4 blankets it was freezing.

Second day here was a choice of a hard 3 hour walk again or a doss. I went for the doss with the Irish and one Ozzy ha pretty boring walk i had but we then got to the waterfalls absolutely freezing cold water. I jumped in fully clothed as i had forgoten to take a costume and the temperature and force of the waterfall was too much to take, i went in to some sort of panic attack, my feet could not touch the floor and i kept sinking and i could not breath, all good fun watching people get i the water though very refreshing. After all the excitement of waterfalls and what not, we then walked through the rain forest to another villiage, this one was set up especially for tourists and we stayed in the same sort of thing. We had a camp fire and a guitar which gt passed around throuout the night for some entertainment and beer just about all you need, oh and two Irish stoners who had a stash of weed that they smoked through a hand made bong.

Day 3 we walked to the rafting hut split the group in to two and jumped in a raft, there were some good parts on the water for rafting but mainly the water was calm, but it was good fun getting the other boats wet smashing the water with our paddles. (not much in writ ting mood sorry if sounds boring) we then got on a bambo raft and took a long strole down the river our guise kept making the bloody thing sink form side to side so we had a good swim in there too, soon dried of. Any way that's all really we drove back to Chain Mai and that's that. We all met up on the nights at a bar and went out until 4am had lots to drink and Good fun.

No more to tell. I'm now heading of to a place called Pia pronounce (bye) its got live music on every night, hot water spars its in the middle of rain forest with wooden huts for accommodation. So cant wait speak soon.

Well i arrived in Chain Mai Yesterday at 11.30 after a beaut full long journey form Mae sot through the rain forest.
I have been shopping ever since i got here and spending.
There are so many beautiful clothes in Thailand and so cheap.
I have not met any people so far so i am dying for a conversation, i did go over to an English girl today and we spoke for about half an hour she was teacher form the south and has been working here for about 1 year.
Well I'm off trekking in the morning about 9.30 for 3 days to Mai hong don about 4hours away form here, i will be trekking on elephants and walking through jungle and i will finally see some waterfalls! and Hope fully get to take a swim cant wait.
Well I'm now going to drink some alcohol free cocktails and read a book.

Well i sat on the bus to Mae sot at 21.00 on 30 November 2007, there were no tourist on here i was not a\sure why, though maybe they will all be there when i get here? uhhmm wrong.
I arrived in Mae sot at 5.00 am 1st December and got a Tuck Tuck to the a guest house recommended by the nice young man at bus station. this was a lovely guest house with very clean and nice rooms, a young girl about 11 years old took me to my room, then i slept again for about 5 hours. When i Finlay got up went out on the porch are to use the Internet, i expected to see lots of English European backpackers, but no there were non. Fortunately the man who owned the place spoke good English and told me they dont really get backpackers here, so that's when i realised i was at the Wrong place. But still very nice hostel. The man call Bun took me to the local villi age in his car and let me shop around the markets for an hour, i was the only White folk in sight everyone was staring at me like they never see white skin before ah ha, Were the market was i could actually see Burma, it was the border were they occasionally open it for people to cross, dangerous sorry if your reading this dad but never the less it was safe enough. Once i got back the the hostel i took a ride a\on a push bike to the local bus station to get a ticket out of there. On my way there was many vans taking refugees to the local camps ah, they were all laughing at me, white girl on a push bike in the middle of this place very funny.
Any way i left Mae sot at 5.30 the next morning to arrive in Chain mai.

Well Bonjour all,

I arrived in bangkok i am staying in a place called Ko san road in ko san palace, (trust me its not a palace) i have been sleeping for 6 hours becuase of all the jet lag and now im goign to walk around thes mad busy town for look.

Evening of teh 28th, i have been asleep again after mywalk round. Lots to buy all cheap cloths not much here really i leave tomorow night for a town called Mae sot to see soem waterfall.