Alex & Lizzy's (Travel) Blog

On our last day in Chiang Mai, we did a 5-hour Thai massage course. It was very interesting, but rather tiring on the thumbs! So, we may offer free massages to friends & family

Then we went on to the Chiang Mai Sunday night market, which is immense! We walked around it for about 2 hours (I stopped for a 30 min foot massage whilst Lizzy carried on shopping) and still we didn’t see half of it! It’s a shame we’re going to so many lovely markets, selling very nice things, but having to resist the urge to buy much since we have no space in our bags for it!

And then the next morning we got up early to leave Chiang Mai to get to Chiang Khong which is on the Thailand / Laos border…

Decided to do a two day trek in the hills, visiting a couple of tribes. Loved the activities but didn’t think much of the first guide (who managed to lose 3 of the people in the jungle…fortunately they managed to find their own way to our camp!!). Also didn’t like having my arse eaten by a load of evil insects while we sat down waiting for our guide to return… OUCH!

Showering in a river was a new experience for both of us, but still very pleasant after sweating buckets on the walk. The next day we swam in some waterfalls, did some white water rafting (which was far safer than our truck ride to the water!) and did some more elephant riding. Before we arrived here, we’d already been told about a very ‘naughty’ baby elephant. We spotted it quite quickly when half way through our elephant ride, a baby elephant came charging through the jungle, hotly pursued by its mahout (elephant trainer). All the fully grown elephants were quick to step out of his way (fortunately we were holding on!) and eventually the mahout managed to jump on his back and slow him down. The other baby elephant was really cute too and kept touching us all with his trunk. I think Elephants are my favourite animals…unfortunately Alex doesn’t think our garden is big enough to have one as a pet