The 28 hour journey to Hanoi After wondering the streets of Vientiene in Laos for several hours trying to find the 'nicest' bus to do the monster journey on, and after insisting on looking at photos of every bus on this route we finally came to the conclusion that contrary to what we were lead to believe every travel agent/hotel and booking agency offered the exact same bus for this journey. Now this particular route and border crossing had been nicknamed 'the ...

Laos Bye bye Thailand (until April) and the journey to Laos begins. We got a night bus to Chiang Rai which is where the new bridge has just been built to cross over the Mekong river into Ban Houayxay, Laos. From door to door the journey took us about 17 hours to reach our new home. Ban Houayxay was the most desolate town we had visited, with a sad looking street and very few people we were glad to have made our 'couple friends' otherwise known as Carrotsnail...

Northern Thailand So I realise it's not quite been a month but figured I probably should do the blogs way more often because we do so much stuff it gets hard to remember what order things are in. So here's the next instalment to the Chribella Adventures. Back in Bangkok. So we arrived back in Bangkok after our trip to Kanchanaburi. Whilst we were away we made a couple of new friends. One lady named Manuella who was only doing a day trip and a guy named Arie...

So Chribella have been away for almost 4 weeks now, and I know I promised a blog, but I basically haven't done one haha. All this time I thought I would have, I just haven't! I've only read 3 chapters of one book, and I'm a fast reader. So I figured I could write a monthly update to give you a quick run down on what we've been up too. (Although this is quite lengthy so allow a good 15 mins reading time here) I have obviously created quite a large picture blog...