2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/bnhtravels/rss.xml Blogs from our travels while teaching English as a foreign language. In January 2011 we left the UK to become English teachers. After teaching in Hungary and exploring Eastern Europe for 6 months we then spent a year in South Korea after a short break back home. Now we have moved to Vietnam for a new challenge! Keep up to date with what we are doing, where we are living and enjoy the stories! We hope you enjoy reading about our adventures as much as we enjoy having them! Leave us a message and check out the photos...Hayley and Ben xx http://www.getjealous.com/bnhtravels http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2778014&go=bnhtravels Today (Saturday) we had to get up really early and wait in line at the tourist office to rent a bike! Pai was so busy that we had been warned they run out of bikes to rent before 11am we got there at 7am and sat in line with some fruit shakes along with everyone else. Luckily for us some nice guy gave us his ticket as he had decided not to wait so we queue jumped by about an hour and got ourselves... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2778014&go=bnhtravels Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2778005&go=bnhtravels The time had come to leave Chiang Mai; we had spent an amazing 7 days here I can really see why everyone falls in love with this city and we found it hard to leave! We wanted to move on and visit Pai, a small town located in the Mae Hong Son province – this remote town has grown in popularity with backpackers and Thai tourists alike with more and more guesthouses appearing so we were keen to vis... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2778005&go=bnhtravels Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2777524&go=bnhtravels So today is St Valentine’s Day and we thought we’d go on a one day Thai cooking course – definitely not the most romantic thing to do but certainly something we hadn’t done before! Regretting the early start after such an exciting trip yesterday we reluctantly followed this lovely sweet Thai girl round the alleyways picking up a small group of fellow chefs, before embarking on a guided tou... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2777524&go=bnhtravels Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2777472&go=bnhtravels After our epic day trip yesterday we spent today chilling out in Chiang Mai. The guy who owns the hotel is really sweet and we spent a while sitting with him and his parents, discussing our life in Vietnam and theirs in Thailand! Overnight our laptop charger broke, for some reason it wasn’t working no matter which plug socket we plugged it into so our only mission for today was to find a new cha... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2777472&go=bnhtravels Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2773066&go=bnhtravels We wanted to explore further north but we were getting tired of lugging our backpacks around and running low on funds by this point so we decided to go on a day tour and this way keep our comfy base in Chiang Mai! We picked one that took us to Chiang Rai and then further north to the Golden triangle, where Burma, Laos and Thailand all meet, once home to a mighty population of opium fields. The ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2773066&go=bnhtravels Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765157&go=bnhtravels So we had finally made it to Chiang Mai. It was an epic journey to get here and the place was busy due to Chinese New Year. Ben left me in a café guarding the backs while he went off to find us a guest house. We were lucky to find a place in the old city centre, a new hotel just opened by a lovely Thai family, it had a strange name, House Number 11 but it was clean, centrally located and only cos... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765157&go=bnhtravels Sat, 9 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765085&go=bnhtravels Today we left Phuket and took a bus to Khao Sok rainforest. The drive took about 6 hours and we passed gorgeous coastline by Khao Lak before turning inland towards the forest. The scenery was stunning here as we got deeper into the jungle, Khao Sok rainforest is believed to be 160 million years old making it one of the oldest forests in the world so we were looking forward to spending a night here... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765085&go=bnhtravels Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765084&go=bnhtravels As we wanted to now head back to the mainland and travel to the north of Thailand we decided the quickest way would be to go via Phuket. After the last few blissful days we were reluctant to go back to somewhere really developed and busy but it made sense to stop on Phuket for a night. Cringing at the thought of a 5 hour longtail boat ride we booked a 2 hour speedboat to take us there, with one st... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765084&go=bnhtravels Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2755040&go=bnhtravels After the exertion yesterday we had another lazy day today! Ben did get up really early and watched some fishermen picking shellfish along the beach while I was enjoying my lie in! We did make it Khlong Dao beach at the north of the island after negotiating with a tuk-tuk driver to take us there for a decent price. This beach was supposed to be busier but it felt just as quiet although there were ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2755040&go=bnhtravels Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2754053&go=bnhtravels After spending the last 24hours or so lying horizontally we figured we should get off our arses and do some sightseeing! We decided to visit the Trang islands, an archipelago of islands stretching further south and protected within a national marine park. Being further south and harder to reach they are more tranquil and development hasn’t managed to take over yet! Unfortunately we had to ta... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2754053&go=bnhtravels Sun, 3 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT