I have my two month Laos visa back and I am in Chiang Rai and I am supposed to take a bus to the border town, Chiang Kong and take a boat down the great Mekong river to Luang Prabang in Laos. However, I have a month left on my Thai visa and the Islands call.. I fly down on a cheap Asian budget flight to Bangkok and then on to Phukhet. Phukhet is Thailand's Benidorm and I only spent a night there before getting on a boat to Koh Lanta via Koh Phi Phi. Koh ...

Gosh, am I having a brilliant time in Laos. Luang Prabang, a UNESCO world heritage site city, is a place of mist, mountains, monks and French-colonial style architecture. Just outside of Luang Prabang is an amazing five-tiered waterfall where you can swim on each level. To get behind the waterfall on the third level takes some doing as the pressure of the falling water keeps forcing you backwards but is so much fun when you eventually achieve it.