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.

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 🙂

Had a brilliant day in CM, went up the mountain to the temple & then went to a waterfall on the way down.

After some deliberation I’ve decided to make the epic journey north to Chiang Mai.

I’ll be catching the ferry from Ko Tao at 2pm tomorrow and arriving in Bangkok at 5am. From there it’s an epic 12 hour bus journey north.

So lots of R&R today in preparation. I’ll mainly be in this position.

This is a basic outline of the journey, though this time it is in one go…

See you in Bangkok.