Still in Chiang Mai at the moment and for the last four days we’ve been celebrating the Thai new year, its not just amy normal new year party tho, the thai’s have turned it in to a huge water festival. i think it original starts with people sprinking water onto the feet of monks but then just goes totally mental and people take to the streets with buckets and

water pistols. Its the 4th and i think final day today and im kind of relieved cos i’ve spent the last 4 days soaking wet and feeling a bit ill, i’ve noticed that most people just get their water from the river that runs through the centre of town and the water looks totally minging, i think i may have ingested a fair bit of it (mixed with plenty of beer as well tho). We’ve had a few good nights out here and have met some cool people, i was thinking about leaving today and heading to Burma with some people we met but have decided against it. We have had a slight change of plan tho and rather than going to Cambodia we’re going to Laos next instead, i think we should be there in a few days.

On our 1st day here, before the water festival started we went on this like action day thing that included mountain biking, elephant ridaing and white water rafting. The mountain biking was pretty hard going with the heat and the poor quality bikes, Me and Tiley got a bit competetive as usual and tried racing for a bit, Banj had the best idea tho he got a lift in a pick up truck and met us at the end. I remembered that i don’t really like the elephant riding from the lastr time i was in Thailand, i think its pretty cruel to just make an animal ferry tourists around all day, luckily it was only for an hour tho. Our elephant did wander uo the steepest hill in the whole area, Me and Tiley were both holding on trying not to fall out at one point, i dont know how the thing managed to stay upright. Tiley got a video of it all with us both looking terrified that we’re about to fall down a big hill closely followed by the elephant. The video has since been destroyed since he foolishly took his camera out into the water festival. The best bit of the day was the white water rafting, it wasn’t as extreme as we were thinking but was still a good laugh, its the wrong time of the year im told, its a lot better in the wet season.

Anyway thats about it for Chiang Mai, i’ve just uploaded some photo’s but you’ll have to look back at the 1st blog entry because i couldn’t be bothered to sort thru them all (if your on facebook as well you’ve maybe already seen them)