I had slept a total of 14 hours last night and yesterday which is pretty crazy for me, I guess the bus ride took it out of me. It was quite overcast and Laura was stirring beside me. Instead of waking her I went for a walk around the local area and stopped by a little eatery with locals tucking into soups. I ordered a rice porridge with pork which was super tasty I might add. After finishing I continued by walk around the dusty streets meeting only local people s...

The overnight mini bus ride had as expected, been pretty uncomfortable. The driver was in communication with one of his mates via Bluetooth for most of the trip. He also seemed quite tired which probably accounted for the 3 coffees and 3 red bulls he drank and whatever pick me up he kept taking with his friend every hour or so. The bus stopped a total of seven times, which I think was again, to stop him falling asleep. Just after dawn we arrived at the border ...

The second part of our Thailand adventure was coming to an end today and we all felt ready. The room was surprisingly cool this morning and after a refreshing shower I went down the road for noodle soup with Kratos leaving Laura to get dressed. It did not take us long to pack up our things and the guesthouse would kindly look after our bags for the day. Tonight we were going to take an overnight bus to one of the Thailand-Laos borders located near the capital o...

Today we woke early excited for the day a head, Steven and Kratos headed for breakfast while I ensured the camera was charged and everything was packed and ready. At 8am our lift was here to pick us up and we climbed in to a very plush looking mini van before picking up a few travellers around Chiang Mai. The last stop was to a hotel where a women jumped in and started directing the guy around the car park to get to her friend who had hurt her ankle. I felt rea...

So today we would be leaving Pai, some could say finally but we knew we would be sad to leave this place. We checked out and took advantage our breakfast before our four hour bus ride back to Chiang Mai. We were going to take the local bus so had no idea what to except, hopefully not a crammed bus that felt like an oven. We met Kratos who was waiting near the bus stop and some people were waiting already so we decided to join the queue. Shortly afterwards, a gr...