Fifty Fifth Stop BangkokWe arrived in Bangkok at 5am on the 7th August. That day we went shopping in the cheap mall, MBK and at night went to Patpong market and took in a ping-pong show. The next day we went to see the bridge over the river Kwai then the tiger temple. The tiger temple is basically a temple surrounded with an animal sanctuary. The main attraction is that you can get your picture taken with a tiger, Andy actually had a tigers head sitting on his la...

Fifty Fourth Stop Chiang Mai We arrived late on the 2nd of August. The following day we arranged our bus back to Bangkok and the rest of our activities in Chiang Mai. That night we went to a Thai boxing match and went to a club. The club turned out to be a bad idea as we had advanced mountain biking in the Himalayas. When they say advanced they mean it. The first half hour was down rocky steep slopes, by the end we were battered and bruised. We got an early nigh...

Fifty Third Stop The Gibbon Experience (Houay Xai) We arrived in Houay Xai on the 29th of July and started the Gibbon Experience the following day. The Gibbon Experience is set up by Echo warriors to raise money and protect the rain forest. There is a colony of six tree houses 150m above the ground connected by a series of zip-weirs and walking paths. It rained a lot when we were there which meant we didn’t get to see much wildlife, but the rain a...

Fifty Second Stop Lang Par Bang We arrived in Lang Par Bang on the 27th July. It was a nice little place but as we had to get to the Gibbon Experience by the 29th so we left for Houay Xai...

Fifty First Stop Vang Viang We arrived in Vang Veing on the 24th July. The bus journey was only 4 hours a massive improvement on the trip from Hanoi. The hostel we stayed in was really good. The rooms, little wooden huts which we shared with Jonahs, make up a small village. It was right on the river and has awesome views of the mountains in the back ground. The same group that had gone from Hanoi had traveled to Vang Viang. We had formed a good group and we...