I am currently on a 15 hour train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok and I am listening to my trance playlist and I feel AMAZING! I can't believe I am actually doing this; I am actually backpacking around Asia and it is the greatest experience. Chaing Mai was incredible, we were supposed to only stay for 4 nights but that turned into 9 nights because I fell in love with the casual, lad back atmosphere. We were there during Songkram which was the Thai New Year and the way...

I spent days trying to find a blog post with the details of what happens when you cross the border from Myanmar to Thailand, however, I could only find posts on how to cross from Thailand into Myanmar which was not useful. So this blog post is for anyone wanting to cross the border from Tachileik into Mae Sai. We caught a plane from Mandalay to Tachileik due to the fact that it is off bounds to tourists to travel there by land. The airport in Mandalay was tiny w...