Day 4 - Today we left the hostel in Bangkok to travel to BMK airport to catch out air Asia flight to Chang rai. We had breakfast in the coffee club. After our short flight to Chang Rai we caught a taxi to the bus station. We had about 3 hours to wait for the bus so we had some good food (pad Thai and Emily's crispy pork). We then sat outside a local shop on a wooden bench, I had a nap while Emily and Tess read. We left Chang rai about 4.30 for our bus journey. There was a really pretty sunset as we handed in our immigration card to the Thai embassy. On arrival to laos bus station we jumped in a tuk tuk to our guest house, where we met emily and tess's friend joe. We shared the tuk tuk with a young Thai girl and her venuzulian boyfriend. On the journey we realised that it is a lot colder here than Bangkok. The guest house is very dated but clean. We had nice meal across the road from the guest house. A guy called Jonny from Alaska joined us after we ate. He had a really interesting reason why he was in Laos. He had brought his dad for a trip to his home town, 30 years after he was evacuated to California while the Vietnamese war was happening. His dad mentioned that the town has developed a lot since he left. Jonny worked for 4 months of the year fishing and the rest of the year he tried to travel as much as he could. He also spear fished in his spare time!