Up at 6.30am and back on the boat at 7am. We set off on the journey to Luang Prabang, one of the bigger towns in Laos. It was a very cold morning so and with the wind from the speed of the boat we were all layering up. The first stop was to a Buddhist cave. The boat pulled up and we had to cross another dodgy plank to get across to the cave. Here we climbed up steps to enter the cave where it was filled with approximately 2000 Buddha statues (I didn't count them,...

We were up at 7.30am to make our way back down to the boat. If I thought scrambling up the hill was difficult the previous night getting back down the hill with my backpack and my day pack I thought I was just going to roll down at one point. The captain of thee boat helped me with my bag and we were ready to go to Ban Lad Khamoune which was a village we were visiting and staying overnight in. He boat journey was 5 hours so I caught up on a few blogs (even star...

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...

We left Chaing Mai to travel to Chaing Khong which is a town built purely for travellers to stay the night before they cross the border to Laos. A few more people had jumped on our bus and we were up to 11. We left Chaing Mai to first travel to Chaing Rai and visit the famous white temple. We stopped for lunch at a village where there were no menus just a selection of 10 or so dishes for you to pick. It's a lucky dip really as you have no idea what you are choo...