Mum quits job to backpack around Asia with her five-year-old

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A single mum quit her job to backpack around Asia with her five-year-old and says she still has the "freedom" to experience whatever she wants.

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00:00I'm a single mom backpacking Southeast Asia with my five-year-old and today

00:03we went 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

01:09see 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

01:23our Crocs nearly. We literally went under the water, it was so scary. Then we went

01:27back to the tuk-tuk and headed home. Spend a day with us whilst we are

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 around. 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.

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