We only spent one afternoon and one evening in the capital city - It was really only a stop over to get to our next destination, Tha Kaek. Nonetheless we spent our afternoon there walking around the city centre and along the wide Mekong river. We met up with J&J for dinner that night. They had spent the day more productively by visiting one of the city's biggest wats, the SE Asia take on the Arc De Triumph and an enormous Reclining Buddha statue. They rewar...

Our transportation options to get to Luang Prabang from Huay Xai were pretty limited. On recommendation from people we had met, me, Jeff, Mark, Katie and Henry from Guernsey and Jay and Jeanette from Amsterdam, all opted for the 2 day long boat trip along the Mekong river. We were all up pretty early to get good seats on the boat and were pleasantly surprised to find we were the only people on the boat...but it was early. Apparently the boat schedule completely...

We spent two nights in Chang Rai but didn't actually see much of it - Just a few restaurants in the vicinity of our hostel, the surrounding roads and the hostel room itself. Mark met up with us on our second night. He had spent 2.5weeks in the south of Thailand and flew up from Bangkok to spend the next 2 weeks with us in Laos. The plan was to head straight through to Laos the next day in order to check in for our Gibbon Experience which we were lucky enough t...