Hi Everybody hope all is well back in rainy cold England ; )

We spent the last three days in Pai four hours north of Chiang Mai near the Burma boarder. Pai,s a very quite town with few people and very relaxed, very Hippie. The four hour journey ended up being about three. The driver was drove abit like Sean...bloody crazy trying to over take on blind mountain bends etc but luckly we got their all in one piece.

We searched for a place to stay and found a nice bamboo hut on the river with its own shower/bathroom for 300 baht a night (about five pounds). You had to walk over a bamboo bridge to get to them but the views were amazing. Took it easy the first night and had a quite walk around the place, looked at some shops and market stalls. Then had drink by the river and a really tasty curry of a street vendor, yum yum!

The next day Sean hired a moped in the morning and we went out all day to explore the place. I was absolutly bricking it and was holding on to Sean for dear life telling him to slow down but to be honest it was quite good fun...made sure i wore my helmet though (safety first ha ha). Anyway we saw loads of things waterfalls, elephants, hotsprings and picked up a few friends from Israel who wanted to follow us to another waterfall but we all ended up getting lost so turned back (all good fun). We then went of again to watch the sunset in a canyon with really nice 360 views.

Finally got home early evening and had a really good day apart from we forgot to put suncream on and had got quite burnt! Unfortunatly I was very ill that night with sickness and well you can imagin the rest so the next day was a lazy one. It pissed down all night and was still raining when we went out in the afternoon, little did we no it was going to rain for the next three days! We then booked transport arrangements to Luang Prabang in Loa for the next day. We had 3 choices a 3day bus and slow boat trip, 2 day bus and fast boat trip or a 1 hour flight! We took the flight as travelling for days and feeling rough did not sound like fun. Especially now that Sean was being sick too, so all fun and games!

We left the next day to make our way back to Chiang Mai to get a plane to Luang Prabang. The plane was tiny, only held 70 people and we were both begining to wounder if we had made the right choice to fly! The plane was old skool from the 80's with flourescent seats and propellers, not jet engines, we were both on edge! The flight in the end was fine but at one point I did worry when I thought the captian was serving us lunch (who the hell was flying the plane ha ha) Finally arrived in Lao on the 1st of feb around 4.15pm. (Raining)

I hope everyone is fine back home

Lots of Lao Love

Jen and Sean