A Beautiful lake in the middle of the Sukhothai runes.Check out http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Mae-Hong-Son/blog-102046.html this is Dave's blog entry from their little trip to Mae Hong son (I am glad I missed out on their adventure)
I make it to Ayutthaya all by myself. Dave and Jazz leave really early this morning and I was planning on going with them, but I stayed out too late bar hopping with 2 Germans, 1 Dutch, 1 Australia, and 1 French, and jazz and Dave too.
For those who worry, don't. I ran into Jazz and Dave within 30mins of being in Ayutthaya which isn't bad considering its a city of over 80 thousand people.
Janice... We will habit share stories when I get home. I did sleep in a Karen Village 50km from Pai in a stilt house, 11 of us plus guides shared a large room, sleeping on a bamboo flooring 2.5 meters in the air with 2 waterbuffalo, lots of chickens, and pigs too.
I guess I should actually start from where I left off.
The trek was well worth the money was spent. Jazz, Dave and me joined up with 5 French ppl, one Swedish guy, one English women, Israeli women and we all squished in to a pickup truck. I have decided that I hate pickup trucks here, because I get car sick from sitting sideways. Normally I can read on the windy roads of the northern Thailand in buses, tuk-tuks, etc, but just sitting in sideways in a truck... Not good. Lucky the truck ride was only 1.5hrs to the beginning point of the trek (50km from Pai.) Sorry mom, I can't tell u exactly where I was.
The trek was an easy trek in terms of distance. We walked up hill for 30 mink - had a 10min break, walked 30-40mins more uphill - 45min lunch that consisted of a little fish, chicken, curry and lots of fried rice. I was one of the adventurous ppl... I tried all the food that the guides were offering us. Next we walked on flat ground for maybe an hour to a small waterfall, where the guides made us bamboo cups and hot tea. It wasnt\t the sunniest day so no swimming for me. The last leg of the journey was another hour of so of a little up, a little down and lots of flat to a small hill tribe (Karen) village. We had lots of time to look around, take pics and buy goods, a little too much time. It was at this village that we stayed in a house on bamboo stilts with animals in the barn below us. There was no electricity in the village so after dinner the children of the village sang us songs then demanded we sing them sounds. None of us could think of any songs so we sang "row row row your boat", "a French song" and "twinkle twinkle little star". It was very very funny.
The village makes local rice whiskey so we had to sample it. We started drinking the whiskey at 4... And by 11 it was all gone. I wouldn't tell u how many bottle got drunk because they just kept showing up. By the time the singing was finished, we were all happy. A couple of us played cards... Memory is a very hard game.
There was a line up for the bathroom at 3am. The rooster had a competition at 3am to see who could be the loudest... So everyone was wake... Me and the Swedish guy had a 3am snacktime too.
Day 2 everyone but 4 of us went rafting. Our day started walking at 10ish - walked until 11:30ish. We had a 1 and a bit lunch break where the guide made bamboo cups, bowls, chopstick etc. Walked a little more iup and down through amazing forests and diverse landscapes. Everything was green, but there was so wildlife to be seen, except for a couple spiders, and one frog. At 3pm we arrived at the first campsite but the water level in the river was too low so we had to hike 30mins more to find a larger creek. I saw sad - to shallow for swimming.
it took the guides about 1h to find, chop and construct a shelter for us and start a fire. I am amazed at the food that can be made over a fire. As soon an darkest fell and the food disappeared the animals started to come out. It was scary....
I had the worst sleep the first night of the trek because of all the animals and the next night I didnt\t sleep much because we were in the jungle under a little bamboo shelter with only one wall. By the time we returned to Pai after the elephant rides, bamboo rafting and caving ... I was sooo over tired. That is how I ended up staying there for an extra 3 days.
Me and John decided to party the night away (after a short nap of course) because we ran in to the other ppl from the first day of the trek. We arrived at a bar called Bebop at 1"30pm and it was DEAD DEAD dead... Then guess who walks in... It was the English ppl I meet 2 week's ago in Vang Vieng while tubing. It is a small world. By 11"30 the bar was full full full. I danced, drank and had fun.
I was home in bed by 2am... Only because the bar closed at 1am
The next day was a joke. Jazz and Dave left. Me and john slept in until 10 - had breakfast - went back to sleep until 1"30 - had lunch - walked around - finally rented a motorbike (he drove, they scare me) - but 4:30 we were heading to a hot spring - we made it to the sign what says hotspring 600m and the bike dies. This army dude shows up, we trade him bikes and ride to the gate to the national park. The guard, the army dude and some other guy spend 30mins trying to fix the bike but can't get it to stay running so we called the rental place and they came to pick us up. We sat at the gate for over and hour doing nothing. No hot springs nothing. Instead we went for dinner and massages. We were going to rent a movie too, but nay... We went back to bed.
the next days much better. - john booked a bus ticket to Lao that left this night - so we both packed up - I changed rooms ( I didn't need 2 large beds for myself) - we had breakfast - bought snacks from 7-11 - took the motorbike *new one) to find a waterfall. We got soo lost, we took 3 wrong roads before we got the right one... We saw a canyon (had a nap at the canyon) ... Went for lunch and watched a movie - we shopped - chilled - and ate again. He left at 10 and I went to bed. I got more sleep and ate more food that I had in the last 3 days.
I was supposed to meet jazz and Dave in Chiang mai, but if u read they blog u will understand why they went straight to sukhothai. I caught bus at 8:30 in Pai was in Chiang mai by 12:30... Went into town and found out that my friends weren't in town, went back to the bus station at boarded a bus for sukhothai at 3pm. It was a long bus ride, about 6 hrs, but I did meet a German chick.. She was cool.. We shared a tuk tuk thing into sukhothai and ended up sharing a bungalow too.
Did dinner at a street place, where we met another German guy ( I didn't eat at a single restaurant that day), with pancakes for dessert, found jazz and Dave then headed for the bar. We only had one beer each, but we were there so long we had to kick us out.
I found jazz and Dave and had a breakfast is the nicest restaurant...
Yummy fresh French bread. 
The germna chic, Jazz and dave filming in the background. This is the first rune of the day at Sukhothai
Then the German chick joined out and we had a long day biking around the old runes of the city. I will post pics. Next time I see runes... I am going early, mid day is too hot for me.
Jazz\s guesthouse had a pools so after a long hot sweaty day we all broke out the swim wear and lounged at a pool.
It was a good day until dinner. I had never had bad food on this trip until last night. Had noodle with a gravy sauce but there was more sauce then noodles and it had NO favor.... Bad bad food... Street stall food was 10x better.
The night ended with a visit to 2 different little bars, which brings us back to the beginning. I stayed out too late and slept in missing jazz and Dave and the bus to ayutthaya.
I am where I was supposed to be now so it is alll OK
good night... I have to get up early to actually meet up with my friends.
bye bye
I miss everyone and home very much.
Guess what... I am wearing the hat... see Karol
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