Mathew

Picking up from the last post. We are now in Chang Mai, to anyone that doesnt know where that is, its North Thailand. See the Google Map if you need help.

From leaving the Cameron Highlands we travelled to a town called Ipoh where we embarked on a white water rafting adventure. Fortunately I had my waterproof camera so I was able to take some footage, sadly because of where I was sat in the boat quite a lot of it was of someones back while they were paddling, however there was one point where they fell in and here is the footage:

After Ipoh we transfered to an island just off North Malayasia called 'Pernang' where we stayed for a few days, touring the island in a veryyyyyy small car. We even found the silicon vally of the east, which for a tourist is aparently hard to find.

After exploring Pernang and seeing all the sights we hopped on a over night train to Bangkok Thailand!

Now, Bangkok is quite a city, surrounded by plentyyyy of temples, and yet liberial enough to be the worlds go to point for 'Gender Reassignment' operations not to mention you can buy a handmade suit for a little over 60 Euros or watch a lady play an interesting game of ping pong... Needless to say both I and Siobhan felt very out of place and once we had explored the city and seen the temples we decided that it was better to leave and find a better city to enjoy.

Catching another train up to Chang Mai, we arrived got settled. Where we are staying is located inside the old city of Chang Mai. Already we have done severalll very exciting days! We went and visited TIGERSS! and got to play with baby cubs. Well when I mean got to play, due to the heat of the day they werent very playful and really wanted to be left alone to lick each other which was a tad on the annoying side however they were very calm animals so I could get up close and personal with a few:

Another thing that we did in Chang Mai was attend a Thai cooking class where we learned how to cook some veryyy tastyy Thai dishes, Siobhan learned how to cook Thai spring rolls and I found out the secret to Thai's special dish 'Pad Thai' (its noodles.. but dont tell anyone). After which we were seperated into two teams... One team learned how to make green curry paste (Siobhan's) the other (my team) learned how to make red curry paste.. Needless to say after some pounding with the pestel and morter we were left with two small dishes of red and green curry pasta. From there the teams made a red and a green Thai curry.

Today we went on a jungleee adventure high in the treeesss. Simular to something we did back in england called 'Go-Ape'. The Jungle was very dense and it gave me an opportunity to play with my action camera again. The best footage was Siobhan ziplineing down the track:

Tomorrows plans include going to learn the art of Thai massarge... Should bee funnnnn

The galleries linking to this entry are: Gallery One and Gallery Two