WE’RE ON A BOAT FROM NOWHERE… We’re back on the slow boat today, making our way from our half-way stop, Pakbeng, to the town of Luang Prabang. The scenery is just as beautiful as yesterday, though our day started out much damper than yesterday as a tropical storm […]
TAKING THE SLOW BOAT THROUGH LAOS We’re on a boat, travelling down the Mekong River through Laos, and it’s amazing. We had some trepidations about this 2 day journey from Chiang Khong in Northern Thailand to the Laotian town of Luang Prabang, and yet it’s turning out to […]
FROM CHIANG MAI TO CHIANG RAI, & FURTHER ON TO CHIANG KHONG In the dialect of the Northern Thai people “chiang” means “city”, which is why so many towns up here are named that way. We’ve been staying in Chiang Mai the last couple of nights and today, […]
MARKETS & TEMPLES OF CHIANG MAI Amongst other things, Chiang Mai is known for its lovely mountainous backdrop, its many Buddhist temples, and its multiple markets. Keen to see as much as we could of the city we set our early today and took a walking and songthaew* […]
VIEWS OVER CHIANG MAI We survived our 13 hour journey on the night train to Chiang Mai! Neither of us got much sleep thanks to rocking of the train, but we made it! I started out on the top bunk, but when the train’s movements threatened to bounce […]
Wandering Soles 