I survived tubing in Vang Vieng! I was pretty worried about coming here cos of the fact that before I came out I had nothing to do but read the millions of stories of people getting killed or maimed here, so I'm quite relieved to be leaving really! That said, it's been an AMAZING 3 days here. I'm feeling a bit like a zombie at the moment, it's all been a bit mental and even forming proper sentences is a bit of an effort but I'll give it a go! So I got to Luang ...

Just came back from the Gibbon Experience in Laos... never have so many things attempted to kill me in one day and never has it been so much fun! The Gibbon experience is a ziplining thing like the Flight of the Gibbon I did in Chiang Mai, but you stay overnight in a treehouse. Seeing as I was shelling out more than 100 quid for this treehouse (the gibbon experience is quite famous, therefore expensive) seeing as I'd already been ziplining, I was expecting someth...

So I've been pretty much failing at life for the last few days, been too ill and dehydrated to make any decisions about anything more complicated than getting out of bed and generally been wandering around like a zombie. This has somehow ended up with me back in Chiang Mai on my own when all the people I know are going to Laos. I think my reasoning was that I wanted to buy a netbook somewhere but really I should have just stayed in Pai, it's horrible being back s...

So the last few days have been a combination of pure amazingness and really horrifying! I've had food poisoning for the last few days which meant being so dehydrated yesterday that I felt like I was underwater all day and everyone was really far away, and ended up in me projectile vomiting all over a bus and some thai woman. Good times. Pretty funny in hindsight but the bus driver didn't even pull over and I was left sitting there for half an hour covered in sick...

Ah I love Chiang Mai, it feels like I've been here forever even though it's only been... 4 days?! There's so much to do here I keep adding days, sorry south islands, you can wait. Soo I got here with the night train which had a really comfy bed so I fel asleep by 7pm, woke up at 2am and couldn't go back to sleep till about 6am, just lying in my little yellow curtained cubicle listening to the train, felt like I was going a bit mad. But eventually got there a few...