When we arrived at Chiang Khong, we were just dumped off the bus at our overnight accommodation! We met a load of other travellers here and had a really good night drinking and chatting! We met Dan and Betty, the Yorkshire couple, Neesha and Leanne, the Essex girls and Drew, Haley, Natalie, Reindhart and Zack all from Atlanta y'all. All sore heads the next morning we headed to get our Laos visas and even though we were first through the border we had to wait ab...

On the Road to Laos So apologies for the lack of updates since we finished the Mae Hong Son loop but we have literally been travelling the entire time. We were supposed to leave the guesthouse at 10am on Wednesday morning but at 10.40 and still no sign of the mini bus the lovely lady who gave us our toast 'to go' when we were late for the gibbons, rang the driver who informed us that he was at the 'gas' station and would be another 10/20 mins - we got picked u...

Ride out day 5 - Homeward bound! (Better late than never...) We saw waterfall after waterfall after waterfall after hot spring after cave SIGNS and didn't stop at one! Actually couldnt be arsed! We'd had enough of the bike and were looking forward to returning to the familiarity of Roger's guesthouse. However, it was an amazing experience and was good to get off the beaten track but 5 days was a bit tight for all we wanted to see and do and would have loved ...

Day 4 - the worst day so far Well a good night sleep didn't happen, in fact hardly any sleep happened at all. It seemed that every single rabies riddled dog was attending the dog barking and howling party that was on that night, the girls next door was chucking up most of the night, bless her, then the birds started tweeting, I swear, right outside our window and then the locals were havin a chin wag in the garden at 6.30 am - nightmare! We got up, showered...

Day 3 was the best day so far (for Sinead anyway). Up early we definately were this morning, thanks to the whooping noises coming from the Gibbons in the jungle at 6am to which our faithful guard dog decided to react to along with the rest of the dogs in the village (as you can see he was still there in the morning). After another freezing cold shower, as if we needed waking up, we had breakfast, said goodbye to our fleeting friends and hit the road again tow...