Trekking in Chiang Mai

It's been a while since my last update but not to worry, I am alive and well. I'm with a few Canadians from BC and two guys from Australia. The group of us just got back yesterday evening from a 3 day trek through the mountains of northern Thailand. We went elephant riding, stayed overnight in bamboo huts with the local tribespeople and had a rather sketchy bamboo rafting experience down the river with our drunk tour guides. Last night we all went to the Chiang Mai market to haggle with more street vendors. It was great fun, though, around 2AM I found myself breaking up a fight with some other westerners who my Canadian "pals" had taken issue with regarding underage Thai prostitutes. It's a long story but cooler heads prevailed.

So, I'm going back to Bangkok tonight at 6PM. It's another 12 hour busride, yay! It was great fun here and I'm glad I decided to make a stop here. I have to check out in 10 minutes so I better be off. I'll check in again soon!