Arrived in Luang Prabang yesterday afternoon. First impressions are good, but it’s hard to get your head in to the currency. There’s 13,000 to the £ so everything seems expensive at first.
There’s a good night market & some really cool bars. Everything shuts at 11.30 except for an out of town bowling alley, so we ended up there last night.
Spent a lot of time on the bus today. Picked up at 10am and travelled to Chiang Khong just on the border with Laos at 4.30pm. En route we stopped at the white temple in Chiang Rai.
Tomorrow we go across the border to Laos and on to the slow boat.
I’ve been travelling with a couple of fellow Brits – Jenna & Adam for the last few days. Jenna has been feeling unwell and took a turn for the worse tonight so has been admitted to hospital with fever, sickness etc. Really hoping it’s nothing serious. Looks like they won’t be on the boat tomorrow and I’ll be doing some unplanned solo travelling for a bit.
Thai healthcare is very good, so in a way it’s lucky she cane down with this here rather than Laos, which is much less developed than Thailand.
Pai is a very beautiful place, here’s our breakfast spot today.
Very quick update. I’ve been in Pai since yesterday. It’s a small place just north of Chiang Mai. Very cool here & spend from 8am – 8pm white water rafting. Leaving tomorrow for 1 more day in Chaing Mai before taking the slow boat to Laos in the morning. It takes 3 days and feeling very excited about a new country 🙂
I’m still in Chiang Mai and have spent the last couple of days enjoying the amazing Loi krathong festival.
The pictures are all on my camera, and I can’t get them on to the blog at the moment, but will do as soon as I get they chance.
I nicked this pic from google to show what it was like at the uni & until I can upload my own
Here’s a few but not the main ones 🙂
Been in the jungle on a trek for the last couple if days. Don’t have many pictures but had a great time. We walked for a couple of hours yesterday, then rode an elephant. After that some food and a party around the camp fire in the jungle.
Today we washed the elephants, went white water Water rafting then swimming in a waterfall. Was a really good couple of days, including a night in a jungle hut. There was a real mixture of people as well, which made things interesting.
The night market is amazing, there must be 2,000+ stalls selling everyone under the sun. It’s all very cheap, with even more to be negotiated off.
Being Thailand there’s a fair number of mad things for sale too – ninja stars, stun guns, flick knives…
I rarely enjoy shopping, but the night market was a lot of fun.
Had a brilliant day in CM, went up the mountain to the temple & then went to a waterfall on the way down.
