It was an early start on Thursday when we left Chiang Rai bound for Laos. We were up at 5am and got a taxi at 5.30am to the bus station where we caught the first bus (6am) to the Thai border town of Chiang Khong. Instead of the bus dropping us off right at the border, we were dropped off about 2km away and had to get one of the waiting tuk tuks to the actual border for our stamp out of Thailand. This was relatively easy and took about 5 minutes before we had t...

We left our hotel in Pai at 7.30 on Tuesday morning. Our minivan back to Chiang Mai left Pai at 8 and the journey was really twisty which left Beth feeling a bit nauseous. It took about 3 hours to get back to Chiang Mai so we arrived at about 11am. We thought we would just be able jump straight on a bus to Chiang Rai but the queue to buy tickets for the bus was unbelievably long. It took is about an hour to make it to the front of the queue where we got ticke...

We were up earlyish on Saturday morning and as we were the only ones in our hotel having breakfast, they kindly brought it to us so we could have it on our balcony. We had the scooter for one more day so once we were ready we followed the recommended route on the map we had been given and visited some of the sites around Pai. We went to the coffee in love shop, love strawberry shop, another temple, Pai Canyon and to the memorial bridge. It was good to get out ...

We left our nice hotel in Chang Mai on Wednesday at 9 and headed for the bus station. We both had a Thai breakfast which consisted of ham, egg, sausage and toast. It was quite nice to be honest but nothing on a full English!! When we got to the bus station we had to ask for some directions to where the minivans left for Pai and eventually found them and booked on a van to Pai which left at half 10. The van to Pai was comfortable although it was a bit hot as t...

We travelled from Sukothai to Chiang Mai on Friday. The hostel owner in Sukothai gave us and two German girls a lift to the bus station and bought us all some sticky rice for the journey. The bus we had booked onto was full so we had to sit separately for the first couple of hours of the journey until a few people got off and Beth was able to shuffle across the aisle to sit next to me. It took about 6 hours to make it to Chiang Mai and as soon as we made it to...