So we had entered Laos and our next mode of transportation was boat. We were heading on a 7 hour boat journey down the Mekong river to Pakbeng. Our final desitination is Luang Prabang but as it takes so long to travel down the river we have two stops offs and Pakbeng is the first. Just over the boarder we said goodbye to Henry, Ed and Bee who were staying in huts in the trees and doing a zip wire trek called the gibbon experience (voted one of the top 10 accommod...

The journey to the Laos border started at 7am (the sun was still rising hence the picture) where we all had pancakes made by the owner of the guest house. We then filled out our visa forms and got in a tuk tuk on the way to the boarder. The journey was about 10 minutes and I was expecting it to be a shack with an official in but it was a very modern boarder crossing with official booths. First we had to depart Thailand so we queued to get our passports stamped, s...