After 3 days in Luang Prabang, during Song Kran, it is time to leave! We decide to head South towards a place called .... a tourist mecca apparently, but famous for limestone cliffs that jut out of the barren land. Luang Prabang has been great, although we found ourselves spending lots of money on western luxuries, like cereal and pizza!! Worth it though. We watched the sun setting over the town from the top of Mount Phu Si ... beautiful. We tried our h...

Welcome to LAOS. So far what we have seen has been very beautiful, but we had one hell of a time getting here! We left the 'comfort' of our guest house in Chiang Rai, and caught a bus part way up the remainder of Northern Thailand. Where the bus stopped we had to catch a Tuk-Tuk to the border crossing, in order to get on our boat. Well, little did we know that it was the annual 'Song Kran' festival, a festival that involves extreme amounts of water ...