After an awesome nights sleep we found an Internet cafe with free wifi so I finally got to update my blog onto the net. Lucky for all of you! Today we are in transit from Chiang Mai in Thailand to Huay Xai in Laos and will complete the Thai-Laos border crossing. Our group is separated into two mini busses and Tony, Lindsay, Pip, Paap, Long and I are in one bus and John, Lisa, Sabrina, Steve and Bern are in the other. Thank god it was not a boring bus trip....We...

What an awful nights sleep! I look like death warned up! Ew! It was an experience to use the squat toilets on the train, but I managed. Paap and I had a delightful breakfast on the train we purchased from the supermarket - bread, jam, BBQ chips and water. As Paap said, it's the breakfast of champions! Our train was running late so we got into Chiang Mai about 11am! Exhausted! It's been 18 hours on the go! We are all a bit smelly and tired bug head into the ci...

An early start today after a great nights sleep! An interesting breakfast then day one of our tour! We headed to choprayam river and boarded a khlong boat to your the canals. This showed the vast difference between rich and poor with big palatial residences beside small wooden homes. However, of the smaller and sometimes run down homes, most of them had a satellite dish! Some of the smaller homes had extensive damage from the recent floods. Our local guide, mr ...

We had a full day in bangkok and thanks to what I assume is jet lag we were up and about by 8am... After a breakfast of cold toast and strange orange juice we tried to walk to a Wat Arun. I got Paap and I a little lost! We got helped by a number of Thai fellows although we were suspicious of all of them. I didn't want to get hoodwinked into buying a suit, some silk or another item. We then found out it was Chinese new year so some of the temples were closed. We...

9 hours later and we have landed in Bangkok! There was a crying baby on the plane but no smelly people, phew! Bangkok is a busy, thriving metropolis! This was made evident by our trip to the hotel, it was hectic, traffic was sooo busy! It was entertaining watching the bikes weave in and out of traffic and the girls gracefully riding side saddle without helmets! Tonight we went to Khao San road and hung with the tourists, watched Tomic win in Aust open and had a...