Laos Laos Laos. what can i say. We spent 10 days exploring the most chilled out and relaxed country in the world. and it was goooood. Out side the 2 main cities Laos buildings consist of only bamboo huts. Many an evening was simply spent chillin out in a local bamboo hut bar watching family guy or Team America. ( sometimes 12 hours straight). The most energetic day was spent floating down the river on a rubber ring with every other backpaker in Laos. (thats...

We started out in Siem Reap where the temples of Angkor are. The huge area of ancient temples has the largest religious building in the world. All of it is 1000's of years old and the best temples were the ones that had been gradually consumed by the forest. Also its the place where they filmed tomb raider. We spent 3 days exploring the area with a moto driver. The huge amount of cultural activity was a bit too much so we headed to the beach at Sihanouk Ville f...

We met the crazy canadian guy called Rahim in Bangkok and havent been able to get rid of him since then. You may recognise him in the photos. The city is miles away from the blisfull nothing of Laos, so it was an excelent oppertunity to give Rahim a few lessons on how to drink Chang the strong Thai beer. He did not excell! Spent a whole day in the Chudachuk market which is just massive and really good. It has loads of individual asian designers on well estab...

Hired a scooter for a day to check the place out, fortunatly Jahmez is slightly better at riding one than he is at driving, but i still felt the fear. Anyone that went to Southampton in his car knows what i mean. Phuket is supposed to be great but there was just to many ladyboys and fat old english men so we left after a couple of days.

After a couple of days in the city checking out the temples and markets we headed off towards the Myanmar border for three days trekking. On the first day we visited the village of one of the hill tribes in north Thailand, then trekked through bamboo jungle to our "guest house" It was actually just a bamboo hut with some blankets. Our Thai guide, Map was a total legend and kept all 10 of us entertained around the campfire at night with his hilarious stories. On ...