Quite an adventure. Beautiful places in Thailand, both natural and man-made. Those gardens by the temple were gorgeous. Great photogaphs.
I also appreciated your candor describing the different places and what you thought of them. Objectivity is good.
I got distracted by your link to the previous adventure (above the clouds), man, that was amazing. I agree with you that was hard to beat. The photograhs you took there should be winners in any photo contest. They belong to posters, screen savers, brochures, I mean those pictures of those clouds, the sunsets, the mountains, just mesmerizing.
How expensive is that trip so far?