Blog 6: Luang Prabang - Laos Another whole day on the boat with a hangover was not a good start however all changed once we arrived at Luang Prabang. This town is beautiful. We decided to look for a hotel together as it is usually cheaper when numbers are higher so the five of us cram ourselves and all of our stuff into a TukTuk and give a random address in the Lonely Planet (otherwise known as the bible). We find somewhere relatively easily, unpack and head off...

Blog 5 - Crossing into Laos Part 1 Today we started the long journey to get from Chiang Mi to Luang Prabang in Laos.The hotel wanted to sell us a package tour which would have only been about £40 each but we have quickly learned that it is usually cheaper to make your own way to places if you are prepared to look. We get the bus from the bus station from Chiang Mai to Chiang Khong approx 700 km where you can cross theboarder to Laos but you can only cross in...

Blog 4 - The jungle trek We were given a list of things to bring with us, most of which we already have but had to go to the market as who brings a torch on holiday with them??I also needed a jumper of some kind as we will be sleeping outside and it supposed to get quite cold - between 0 and 5 degrees. So far, most of the people we have met are only trekking for 2 days which had us thinking maybe we were over exerting ourselves as neither of us are very fit a...

Days Unknown We have lost track of the days already. I tried counting back but I am so tired that I cannot work it out. Since our last blog post we have done so much that we will need to split it into two entries. 1: We left Bangkok on the over night sleep train to Chiang Mai - a new experience for both of us. There were 4 people to a cabin and we were together with 2 German guys out in SE Asia for 2 months. The train took approximately 12 hours and within 30 ...

Days 2 and 3 We were supposed to move early on Saturday but we did not set an alarm and did not wake up until 12, by the time we had packed and left the hotel at was already 1pm so we didn't really do much in the day. We did visit the travel agents and booked to go to the Tiger Temple, Bridge on th River Kwai and the floating Markets tomorrow and also booked the the train to Chiang Mai on Tuesday evening and the 3 day Elephant trek starting on Thursday. The new...