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...

The bus to Chang Mai was (relative to other bus rides) quite eventful. After months of being very vigilant with regards to looking after our belongings, we (like idiots) only checked whether we had our passports while on route. Our passports are normally left in our hand luggage which can easily be keep on hand at all times but staring us in the face was a passportless bag! Very little conversation took place in that painful hour and a half and without saying m...

Day 1 in Bangkok - We sat at breakfast at our little hostel and planned out our first day of Thai sight seeing. The plan was to head off to the Grand Palace, see the Emerald Buddha and walk around this amazing city but a series of events followed that lead us somewhere completely different and which has since caused us to say 'if only' so many times. As we were wondering the streets and mulling over out map, a sweet woman approached us and asked us where we wer...

We touched down in Sydney 2 hours delayed after a 12 hour flight to Auckland, a 2 hour lay over there, and then another 3 hours to Australia. We had a happy reunion with my mom and Colin who were waiting for us at the airport, and we headed straight to my aunt, Debbie's home which would be our home for the next 8 days. In true Aunt Deb style, we had a beautiful room set up for us with our own bathroom and strict instructions that the house was ours to roam aro...