So we have said goodby to lovely Laos for now, and head across the river to Thailand,a 2 yhour public bus journey lands us in Chiang Rai, bvit with no spare time we headed on a flight down to Bangkok. We decided that rather than try and see Bangkok in a few hours, we would hang around our pool and the Kho san Road Backpaker area. this was very relaxing after the last few weeks and we did also manage to squeeze in a Cycling tour of the Bangkok green area. This wa...

We arrived early today into Houay Xai. which is a really small town in the Bokeo province just bordering Thailand at Chiang Kong. We are here to meet with some very special beings (hopefully). The Black Gibbons were thought extinct until they found them in the Bokeo National reserve - we really want yo meet them so we are here fo rthe Gibbon experience - a three day, two night tour that will take us deep into the national reserve, flying around on Zip wires and s...

Just in and out of Vientiane, but we hooked up with some other travellers who are staying in the same hostel as us, so we had a fun dinner and too many Beer Laos to be getting up at 6am for our flight! Don't worry Vientiane, we'll be back!

This morning we woke up early for a good feed in the hotel before setting off on another 14km trek. This time though, we aren't coming back tonight, we're staying with a Black H'mong minority family in the village of Tarvan. Black H'mong wear dirfferent clothes to the Red Dao and are also Catholic whereas the Red Dao are buddhist. Our guide today is Mang, a lively 19 year old Black H'mong with interesting views and very modern for the region. We set off on a trac...

Halong Bay is about 2 1/2 hours by bus from Hanoi, we board our Junk "Aloha" and check into our luxury cabin for the night! Halong Bay swweps past - limestone Karsts towering out of emerald green water, as we have our lunch of Crab, Gambas, Vognole, rice and fish - YUM. We have a relaxing afternoon watching the scenery and exploring "Amazing Cave". It's a little touristy here but still beautiful. The second day we get in our Kayaks early fo...