Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
Saturday 13th October - Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Chiang Kong
We made an early start to catch an uneventful bus to Chiang Rai. The Thai buses aren't crowded like in India, but the seats in this one were definately made for much smaller Thai bodies - they were almost like the chairs in junior school... four or so hours practically sitting on each other's laps later, we stopped off in Chiang Rai for a pizza lunch and to change some travellers cheques before heading to Chiang Kong on the next bus.
One enterprising guesthouse tout tried to persuade us to stay by saying that it always rained in Laos, and that it was better to stay there! The bus to Chiang Kong was a bit roomier, although when we did hit the rainstorm a bit further up north, we discovered that it was far from being waterproof - we had to hold the window closed for an hour or so, and we arrived as very soggy bundles in Chiang Kong later that afternoon.
- comments