We woke up in the guest house and I enjoyed a Nutella baguette for breakfast. After putting our rucksacks on an ants nest, we were finally back on the truck to return to the slow boat. It was a far more relaxing journey as we left on time, had seats and were able to read at leisure. We played a game of Pit and Irish Snap, had a beer and before we knew it, we arrived in Luang Prabang. As thought, they dropped us off at a dodgy port and we were forced to pay a lar...

This morning we woke up inside our fancy mosquito nets and had a quick rinse before leaving the hostel in Chiang Khong at 8:30. After what seemed like a million border controls and 3 different modes of transport, we finally arrived into Laos. I thought it was getting hectic by this point, but little did we know the best drama was yet to come... Our first stop was to the office of the company running the boat trip. Here we were introduced to a very smily local, w...

The bus picked us up from our hostel and we travelled around Chiang Mai picking up other people. Three girls got on from Kent and 4 laddish lads from Manchester so we assumed they were to be our companions for the 3 day leg to Luang Prabang. About 20 mins into the journey, the phone rang for the driver and he had a conversation in Thai. Then he randomly passed it to one of the Kent girls who looked at the phone bemusedly before asking a curious 'hello'? In typic...

We woke up to our last morning in our hut and made our way to the bus stop to get our bus back to Chiang Mai. This time, our bus was less manic and no one threw up into their ponchos. We arrived back in the bus station and negotiated a tuktuk to our new hostel. The dorms, although mixed, were decent and had easy steps up to the top bunk as well as curtains for privacy. The girls and I decided to go out and find a pedicure so walked back through the city walls t...

We woke up to another day in our hut without any more spider episodes. We had some discussions about hiring mopeds to travel around Pai on as we initially thought that was the best way to do it. However, after visiting one of the tour centres, we found a really reasonable tour that went to all the best bits of Pai and who would put on a private tour for us as we missed the start of it. The guys decided to hire mopeds whilst me and the girls decided on the tour. ...