fact it was in such a beautiful spot and we had the place to ourselves we ended up staying there for 5 nights! The only downside was the bed was rock-hard, it was almost as if it was just the bed-base and they had forgotten the mattress, but to be fair we did kind of get used to it, and it seemed that rock hard beds were not entirely uncommon in Northern Thailand!!

The next day we headed off into town for breakfast and moped hire. We weren’t sure which bike we would get as they had scooters but they were twice the price of the mopeds. The only thing was that you needed to change gears on the mopeds and they had a foot brake, but we thought it couldn’t be that difficult! So we gave it ago and after a few jerky gear changes and foot braking we got the hang of it! I felt a lot more confident of these mopeds than I did with the Infant Jesus scooter in Goa, I think because I could put my feet down

properly and it was a really light thing. So we were soon blasting around the quiet back roads and what a buzz. The countryside around Northern Thailand is just fabulous, it is such a nice place, we both said we would definitely be coming back here at some point. Later on we saw an amazing sunset with the sky turning a really pretty pink just after the sun had set over the distant hills, it was so peaceful at our little hut it was just great.

The next day we went to check out Elephant Rides and booked ourselves in for a 2 hour ride starting at 9.00 a.m. the next day, we were extremely excited about this and the elephants were lovely. We then went to check out the spa camping place but it was definitely too hot for the spa so we opted for the local open air swimming pool, which fortunately was just over the road from where we were staying. It was a lovely pool, and a good size with a big play