Our second installment was written on a slow boat in Laos. After Chaing Mai but before Laos, we spent a few days in a fantastic town called Pai. After our trek in Chaing Mai, we arranged to take a government mini bus for the 5 hour journey north to Pai. Our numbers have grown to 7 now, so its me and Miranda, Dan and Rachel, Remi, Daisy and Lisi. Amazingly we manage to find the safest bus driver in all of Thailand, it is a very comfortable journey up into...

Well, this is the first installment of our 3 month trip to Thailand and a bit more of South East Asia. We arrived in Bangkok on Thursday night (11th October) after roughly 29 hours of Traveling. We flew from Toronto to Chicago, then to Tokyo and onto Bangkok. We arrived in Thailand not having slept much to find that our backpaks had made it all the way with us! I was very supprised and extremely happy about that! After a 30 minute taxi ride we arrive at our pr...