Luang Prabang The evening that we arrived we decided to not look for too long to get a guest house and just got one that we could have a good night rest and was cheap. The place that we ended up staying was a little too far out of town for us, so after a shower and a rest we walked into town and looked for a better place to stay and after an hour of looking we found one that we could afford and was in a really nice old part of the main town near to the night mar...

Slow boat into Laos and Luang Prabang So it is our last day in Thailand and we have to get out because or visas run out in a day, we had arranged to take the slow boat trip from Thailand into Laos and to do this we were first picked up my minivan in Chang Mai and driven for a day to the border town of Chiang Khong. The dive was not too bad and the van ok to, it was a good way to get to know some more people that were doing the boat trip with us. One we arrived...

Chang Mai and Pai As we headed north through the country we ended up at Chang Mai for a few days and ended up staying in a very small guest house that was owned by an ex pat call Tim, who was really nice and gave us some good tips on things to do. Over the few days that we where there we sampled the local food and looks at all the temples in the old city wall, these is something like 47 temples within the walls and they just seem to be on every street corner and...

Lampang Tim and I came to Lampang for a few days, to visit the famous elephant training and conservation centre.We took a tuk tuk to a guesthouse that we though sounded interesting in the Lonely Planet, and were met with what can only be described as a 5 star hotel. It was a beautiful old teak townhouse, in a superb location with a balcony looking over the river (excellent for sipping Singh beer and playing cards!!). The interior was full of antique wooden furni...

Sukhothai Tim and I took a 6 hour bus from Bangkok to Sukhotai, and were taken under the wings of a sweet Thai tuk tuk driver with cerebral palsy. Communicating with him made me realize how little we actually rely on language to understand each other, rather than body language, gestures etc (the old Mastercard advert springs to mind where it stated only 95% of communication is non-verbal!). The driver took us to a very nice guesthouse, after a fashion, where we...