With no days left on our Thai visa we crossed the border at Chiang Khong, north of Chiang Mai and took a small boat over Mekong into Laos. We landed in the border town of Houay Xai. There's not really much to Houay Xai and travellers generally just jump straight on to a boat bound for Luang Prabang. But we hung around because the one thing Houay Xai does have is The Gibbon Experience. To be honest, I wasn't going to say too much about the Gibbon Experience on he...