It was early evening when I arrived in Pai, the journey into the centre took us through mountainous landscape and across a memorial bridge, with a man fishing in the river while the sun set behind him. It was a beautiful welcome into the town which was already buzzing with life. Market stalls lined the …
I arrived in Chiang Mai after a long 38 hours of travelling (a night bus to Bangkok, a day in Bangkok and then a night train to Chiang Mai). Thankfully the night train provided a bed, and it seems the opportunity to be horizontal was all I needed to get a good nights sleep. After …
So the majority of my first week in Thailand has been a wild week by the water. Firstly i headed to Krabi to catch up with Sue (the girl I met in the Philippines) and attend her birthday bash, and then I went a little further North to Phuket to complete my PADI Advanced Diving …
My time in Bangkok was brief but enjoyable, I definitely look forward to returning later in the month to explore more of the many places I left untouched. Arriving at 6am I managed, with a little help from locals, to successfully travel via local bus to my hostel. However, as my bed would not be …
I was to be staying four nights here, as I applied for my Thailand 60 day visa on Friday morning, and needed to wait until Monday morning to collect it. Although there were a couple of trips on offer for the surrounding area, such as seeing a Buddha Park around one hour away, I wanted …
I took the bus with Janeth, one of the girls I had met in Luang Prabang, arriving in Vang Vieng early afternoon. It didn’t take us long to find a hostel, and while we were booking we met a guy who decided to take a single room upstairs, splashing out in his final week of …
I had decided to travel straight from Thakhek to Luang Prabang in the North of Laos to get the large trip over in one go. This was a good idea in the most part though I was starting to feel I would be forever stuck on a bus winding back and forth on the last …
I arrived at Thakhek Lodge early evening with the aim of securing a motorbike, and some travelling buddies, to be able to start The Loop the following morning. I had already met one woman who wanted to do this on the bus journey from Pakse, and we found another girl at the Lodge to join …
I didn’t get to see much of Pakse itself, being a little worried about running out of time for everything else I wanted to do in Laos. I decided to only spend one full day in the area and used this to visit the Bolaven Plateau, or at least a small part of it. I …
Having completed my first land border crossing, and being charged $3 more in bribes than we were told we should have, we arrived at the boat to Don Det just as the sun was setting. I could not have asked for a better introduction to Laos, heading down the Mekong River, surrounded by small islands …
