Hi guys! it's alex.. we're in koh tao after leaving the best place ever - VANG VIENG (stopping at the worst place ever KO PHANGANG BLEUGH)! Mieke or rach will update about Vang Vieng where we spent an amazing 3 days.. includin miekes bday and tubing and cycling!!! So we booked a place in Ko Phangan last week whilst we were in Chiang Mai for tues to sat.. so we would be able to go to the full moon party. we flew from Laos to Ko Samui and stayed there for a night...

Well, we arrived in Vang Veing in Laos after a 6 hour car ride, poor Mieke was not enjoying a travel sick start to her birthday! Although things perked up when we found a stall that sold bagettes and laughing cow cheese for lunch mmm!!! More of those please! Vang Vieng is a tiny little town in the middle of the mountains and from the moment we got out of the car we fell in love! (Well, I most definately did!) Al instantly spotted our Canadian chums Lewis and Chri...

DAY 2 CHIANG MAI - LAOS! OK!! Sooo... we were rudely awoken by the horrible sound of cockerals squaking at about 5am nooooooooooo!!! One sounded like a normal cockeral, the other sounded as if it was dying!! We attempted to go back to sleep, then the horrible alarm clock woke us up at 7am (alarm clocks should only be allowed when you're going to work, not when you're on holiday boo)! We were so tired, the girls had drunk far more beer lao than me, and the phr...

CHIANG MAI to LAOS!!!!! day one!! Early start again.. we booked a trip from chiang mai to Laos by bus then the slow boat and it was supposed to take 5hours by bus then a hotel for the night in Laos.. However it was not quite like that! we got picked up at 8.30am, in the bus already was a german couple and an english teacher.. went to pick someone else up - Derek and Liam.. they had given their passports in to the travelagents to organise their laos visas.. but t...

TREK DAY - mine and Al's best day so far!!! An early start for us, up at 7 and picked up at 8.30 after a yummy breakfast of croissants and coffee. There were 9 of us all together in our mini van, and me and Al got talking to couple of Canadian boys, Lewis and Chris. I thought they were American whoops quite insulting for a canadian - also said I find it funny when they say 'aboot' instead of about, that didnt go down well! haha, all was good though and our firs...