Caught a night bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai which was fairly decent, aside from the bug infested stop. On arrival we were taken by some random jeep to a guesthouse, clearly working on commission, as per everyone in thailand!, so we decided to reject this option and hitched a tuk-tuk, also working on commission, who took us to Lanna House. This was an experience in itself. Run by an actually mad woman named Julie, she through her powers of persuasion and our exh...

Hello from Thailand!Arrived in Bangkok at the Kaoh San road which we found overwhelmingly busy, touristy and noisy. This makes it sound like we didn't like it but it was actually very exciting and full of energy, not to mention having the most amazingly delicious and cheap street food, which evidently pleased the two of us immensely. We were supposed to stay at D and D inn which seemed very upmarket (well for thailand anyway) but on arrival they made up some sto...

We arrived in Pakse at around 5 30 after a very long and uncomfortable journey, with non-stop blaring karaoke (in Lao) all night long. After an incredibly long cafufle involving certain members of our group treking around the city in search of ATM's we set off again in a mini bus for the four thousand islands. Clambering onto a rickety ferry accross streaming raw sewerage was less than appealing but once on the island we set off in search of a guesthouse. We thin...