The earliest i've seen for a while for getting up. Did the usual alarm thing, 7am alarm and end up getting up at 9. Don't you just love that 9 minute snooze button, it can be lethal though. I had to sort my stuff out and pack my bags and check out of my room after 2 weeks in Chiang Mai. Now for the next part of my adventure. Im getting picked up at 12 noon for a 6 hour bus ride to Chiang Khong ready for the border crossing into Laos. We arrived at the guesthouse...

Last official day of the Songkran. I think that is a reason to go out on the piss! Usual breakfast then went and met everyone at a bar called the Rooftop bar around 2pm. The bar is on the main street and there are literally thousands of people going past all day whilst you are stood outside soaking people, drinking a lot of Chang beer and ripping up the tarmac to the music, crazy! After several, well more than several beers I was a bit smashed and headed back t...

Lazy b******! Got up at 3pm. Water fights take it out of you over 3-4 days. Got some mid-afternoon breakfast, a bit of a starter for the day. Decided to head out for an hour with the gun about 5 o'clock. Blasted a few people in the street and headed back. Hectic day! I headed off later to get some tea and meet up with a few people I had met over the weekend. We decided to head off to a few, first of all we went to a jazz club, courtesy of a lift from a random ...

Happy Birthday bro! Woke up about lunchtime with a slightly sore head. Went for breakfast and I have never seen as many people in one street. How busy does it want to be? The population doubles over the Songkran to around 400, 000 people in the city. Its like Creamfields but 6 times busier. It is hard to describe what it is like but it's f***ing unbelievable. I hung around in the main square for most of the day chilling out in the baking hot weather. In the mai...

Same same, but different day. Loaded up and hit the streets again. You could tell everone was starting to get revved up for the Songkran. It was starting to get busier on the streets, in bars, people in pick-ups and tuk tuks all at it. I met a few English and Canadians and teamed up with them to give people a good soaking on the roadside. It's just a constant stream of traffic. 1, 2 and 3 people squeezed on bikes with pistols. I don't know how they stay on beca...