Chiang Mai - Bangkok

I've missed out a bit sorry and pics aren't on me now - including something we did called Jungle Flight where we zip lined around the canopy in the forest - the longest one was 300m!

Leaving Chiang Mai - it was an awesome place I'd love to go back one day

On the way to Bangkok we stopped off at Doi Khun Tan which is a National Park and is pretty un-touristy. Its just over an hour south of Chiang Mai on the train we were already getting to head south. It turns out it was so un-touristy that (apart from some Germans who appeared to be living in Thailand) we were the only westerners, which was pretty cool :)

The park is famous for it's butterflies, we saw heaps

lots of cool other animals, from tiny spiders to a big tarantula and MILLIONS of ants

And wild poinsettias too!
The name means 'Doi': mountain, 'Khun Tan': many watersheds

So we walked up the mountain, the view from the top, nearly 1400m up

Us at the top :)
After our long walk we settled in back at the tent with out drinks and onion soup dip which we'd brought from NZ for Cath
The next morning we headed down to the train to Bangkok. It was very hot, had extremely uncomfortable seats and took 12 hours, but did only cost about NZ$7 per person!

Nick and I had out first 'bucket' - a large and cheep (NZ$10) very alcoholic drink. Cath got some very stylish glasses... we didn't!



The view down Khao San Rd where we were, SOOO busy and it was a bit of a mess by the end of the night :S




The evening got messy, but not too bad thankfully :)




It's so hot and humid here, I'm looking forward to getting the must-do's of Bangkok (Grand Palace etc) out of the way so we can head to the coast :)

That'll do for now, byeeeeeee