I deceded to wait for a speedboat instead of the slowboat. The quicker I left the better. I waited until 1pm at the pier, and had to go and complain that I wanted to leave, I think they were waiting for more people to join the boat, luckily another boat arrived from Luang Prabang, that was heading for the Thai border, so I joined that! This is where I met some new friends, and Irish girl (I cant remember her name) and a Korean girl called 'Minjin'. As soon as I h...

I was only going to stay in Nong Khai 1 night, but the place is wicked so I stayed another! Its just so chilled out and relaxing! Yesterday I hired a bicycle and went out exploring! I visited the local sculpture park, very interesting, lots of different stone sculptures that are meant to represent different parts of our lives. I was going to go to the big posh hotel down the road and use there swimming pool, but ended up coming back to my room for an afternoon s...

Trains, Planes and Automobiles... (and not nessesarily in that order!) Yesterday was mostly spend travelling, firstly a 3 hour plane trip from Macau to Bangkok, then a 1 hour bus journey to the train station, then a 14 hour train journey to Nong Khai. The train was wicked though, everything folded out to make bunkbeds. I had a top bunk, and funnily enough, its the best night sleep ive had so far this trip! There was even a thai lady serving cold beer, what more ...