<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> At 8.00 am this morning we were ready for our first border crossing, we are leaving Thailand for a while and heading to Laos. We had heard various horror stories about the immigration process but we passed through in no time. We firstly boarded a small boat to take us from Chaing Khong across the Mekong river to the Loas border town of Huay Xai. As you could see the town from across the rive...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> So its the day of the big trip and we're not too confident of how well this is going to go...... Tom was still persistent on the bus option but with no sign we boarded the pick-up, well that's not strictly true, we waited 45 minutes until the 25 people it could cram in arrived (this is on one normal Toyota pick-up). The first journey went fine and around an hour later we arrived for our &qu...