Alicia Tunnicliffe, 23, decided to quit her job and take her daughter out of reception so the duo could go travelling round South East Asia.
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00:00I'm a single mom backpacking Southeast Asia with my five-year-old and today we
00:04went bamboo rafting to try and spot some elephants. We're in Chiang Mai in
00:07Thailand and we booked a tour to try and find some elephants on some bamboo rafts.
00:11We got there and they gave you these little t-shirts to try and they're so
00:14cute and then we spotted some bananas and we actually did eat one that was so
00:18tiny and very flavoursome, didn't taste like the ones in England. I didn't
00:23realize that this tour included a big hike up to a waterfall so we walked up
00:27without our bag, we left that in the little tuk-tuk they picked us up in and
00:31we walked for ages to this waterfall through the woods. We found this cute
00:35little dog on our way up as well. Milani's obsessed with every single
00:39animal that she sees. The only thing that kept her walking was the fact that there
00:42might be a dog waiting at the top but it was so worth it, look how pretty that
00:45waterfall was. It was so refreshing in the water as well but it was so slippy.
00:49So our tour guide walked Milani the whole way down holding her hands because she
00:53couldn't be trusted, she fell like five times and he was so good with her, he was
00:57playing with her to try and encourage her to walk because it was really hot like I
01:00was struggling. Then we headed to the bamboo raft which were actually really
01:03scary, it was quite fast and they kept pretending there were snakes in the
01:06water so I was a bit paranoid. We were looking out for the elephants and we did
01:10see some, we were so excited. I took my Crocs off to try and relax as much as I
01:14could, get a bit comfy. Look there are the elephants, it was so cute, there's a little
01:18baby as well and just as I began to relax we went down a waterfall and lost
01:22our Crocs nearly. We literally went under the water, it was so scary. Then we
01:27went back to the tuk-tuk and headed home. Spend a day with us whilst we're
01:30backpacking Thailand. We're in Bangkok at the moment and we started off the day
01:34at 7-eleven. We got cereal and milk for breakfast and this cost us 66 baht. We
01:39had to sit outside the hotel to eat it because you weren't allowed food from
01:42outside inside the hotel but we sat on the steps and really enjoyed it actually.
01:46They even give you a little straw so you can suck out the milk, it was
01:49yummy. Then we started walking to the park and Milani got hot so we got an ice
01:52lolly and then she got hot again so we decided to get a tuk-tuk there. We
01:55negotiated the price and he agreed to do it for 50 baht but he said that he had
01:58to take me to his sponsor to have a look round. So we went to his sponsor and it
02:02was like a little jewelry shop but it was so expensive. We were having a look
02:06and I think it was like a 17,000 English pounds for like some of these earrings
02:10but we found a gift shop and just got a fan instead for 60 baht. We got to the
02:15park and oh it was so pretty, it was absolutely boiling in mind but it was
02:18really really pretty and there was loads of these monitor lizards, they were so
02:22cool. Milani was obsessed with like searching for them. It was a bit scary
02:25though because they could just walk on the path. It was so hot so they did stay
02:29in the river though. Then she saw a park and decided to cool off there on the
02:32swing but she was still too hot so she was moaning quite a bit. Luckily we found
02:37the sprinklers so she ran around in them and I said don't get too wet. Obviously
02:41she came back drenched but she didn't moan about being hot then. Then we found
02:45these little swan peddlers and you can rent them for free and we peddled all
02:48around but it was so much effort that I was boiling. So then we headed over to
02:52the cat cafe, this was so cute she's not stopped talking about it. They put this
02:56little cat on our table in a basket and she fed it some food. You have to pay 200
03:02baht entry each but you can use this towards your food that you buy there and
03:05your drinks. So we got some chips and a smoothie which was really really yummy.
03:08We're struggling for food so we're having chips a lot here. And this is the
03:12outside of the cafe, they have like little pictures and Polaroids of
03:15everyone with the cat. We started walking home and Milani needed a little water
03:18break. We got lost, didn't walk the whole way and ended up getting a tuk-tuk back.
03:22And that's what we did today in Bangkok, follow for more.