Be warned this is a long entry! (I should do it more often than all in one go!) Arrived in Vientiane after a 4 hour minibus journey where we had to sit in fold down chairs in the aisle of an already packed solid bus. Checked into Aroon residence which was nice but full of mosquitos - but they don't actually bite, haven't been bit since Changmai. Vientiane in itself is a hole, for a capital city there is absolutely nothing there, we did all the tourist sites with...

Haven't updated this in ages so here goes... Leaving Changmai - we took a 6 hour mini bus from Changmai to Changkong via the white temple in Changrai - it was so pretty, glad we saw it! Then we continue d onto the s***hole that is Changkong (the border town to Laos). Stayed in a bloody horrible depressing motel, which was nowhere near the town, was served cold rice with a cold fried egg on for dinner, then went to bed at 7.30pm just to eecape the hellhole. Woke ...

So on the 15th Jan we plucked up the courage and drove our motorcycles to the secret hotsprings in Pai with all the guys from Spicypai hostel... I was the only girl driving a motorbike, all the others rode as passengers... quite proud of myself as it was one proper hard drive, first on what was like a motorway and then we went on to an off road dirt track which was really steep hills going up and down for at least 30 minutes, really thought one of us was going t...

Spent the first 2 days in Changmai sleeping, sleeping and sleeping. Oh and we managed to do a cooking school which was really good, we both know how to cook an excellent pad see ew and massaman now - yum! We then moved from our guesthouse in Changmai to Spicy Thai hostel on Saturday, checked in at 11am and straight away got dragged into a massive day drinking binge, with lots of beer, beerpong and drinking games... Ended up booking to go Pai with all the guys. ...

We never do things by halves me & Liam... so after 2 days travelling by plane and no trains available to Chang mai we thought you know what would be fun... an overnight bus. Luxury bus. What was luxury about it I have no idea... it ran on Thai time so was obviously late to pick us up, we were squashed for 12 hours, the toilet was a hobbit hole you practically had to crawl into & we all got kicked off at a petrol garage in the middle of nowhere at 5am. A...