On our last day in Laung Prabang we rent a tuk-tuk to take us to Kuang Si Waterfalls. The falls are Eden-like with icy cool and turquoise waters cascading down several levels. I freak out at the top of one waterfall and it takes me 20 minutes to build up the courage to jump while everyone freezes their asses off waiting to take a photo of me. In the process I make friends with a crazy happy Chinese man who finds me hilarious. The water is so clear and turquoise...

On the second day we find a room in a cheaper guesthouse which I share with Rosie, an energetic and animated English red-headed rose. The delights of a cheap buffet don't last long as I receive my first taste of food poisoning. The 10m dash from my room to the bathroom that I need to make regularly is just ever so slightly too long. Luckily after watching Morgan suffer, I stocked up on anti-vomiting and diarrhoea pills that sort me out. After a full 24hrs of sl...

As part of the crossing into Laos, we spent one night in a shabby hotel where Morgan had to use his dirty clothes as a barrier between himself and the bed and ants were crawling over breakfast in the morning. It's all part of the experience I guess! We cross the relatively easy but chaotic Chiang Khong to Huay Xia boarder in Northern Thailand into Laos and take the slow boat from Huay Xia to Luang Prabang which chugs down the Mekong River for two days. It didn'...

The windy roads towards Pai are sickly exciting and quickly forgotten once we reach this beautiful, hippy infested little town. We haven't booked anything but luckily a local handing out flyers takes us to Indiana Cottage. The guesthouse is run by Sarah, a lady-boy from Chiang Mai and her lapdog brother. Sarah is the most generous and entertaining Thai I have met. She cooks for us almost every night, buys beer for everyone staying with her, has a dirty mouth an...

We spend 5 nights in Chiang Mai. Morgan falls victim to food poisoning and I save his life. Despite this we manage to drag ourselves along to the local tourist's watering hole most evenings where we meet two girls from Canada who are lots of fun. On Chinese New Year, we meet Mike in an affluent area, west of the city where his Thai friends take us out to a local bar and club. The club is very modern and chic but strange as no one is dancing, just huddling aroun...