Cei-Bwp Golden Pine Resort & Spa Hotel Chiang Rai

... Apart from a nice night bazaar and the usual temples there wasn’t much to see in Chaing Rai and our main purpose was to see if we could arrange some trekking. After visiting a couple of tour agents the prices put us off completely and must have put others off too as we were the only ones that would be on the trek, which was even more of a disincentive.

We found a great alternative on the web. This was the Akha Hill House ...

... a bit more consideration and as I’m on a roll getting all this out and my finger tips are now square-shaped anyway I may as well carry on:

When I took the long overland journey from Laos to southern Thailand last year to take my teaching qualification it was never with the intention of using it to get a ‘job’ in a school somewhere and to slip back ...

So in Huay Xai we tried to lie in until a reasonable time, but there was some building work next door. Awesome. Luckily EW is feeling more human, though perhaps she'll never be fully healed after the boat ride... To cross the border you have to get stamped out of Loas take a ferry across the river and then get stamped into Thailand, so this si what we did. It was indeed very easy, but everyone going our way was local and everyone going the other direction was westerners, I ...

... da vi var på trekkingtur i bjergene. Vi var afsted i 3 dage og 2 nætter og gik 3-4 timer om dagen gennem junglen og op og ned ad bjergsider. Vi sov i små Lahu-landsbyer og lærte en masse om bambus. Bambus er faktisk rigtig spændende, for det kan bruges til stort set alting. Når bambus er helt lille, kommes det i maden som bambusskud, og efterhånden som det bliver større, kan det bruges til kopper, askebægre, knive, hytter, måtter, tag på husene, opbefaring ...

... in laos and nearly in vietnam, so i will hope to catch up once again, as soon i hit civilisation. i have a bus tonight at 10pm that gets to the border at 3am. i have to wait untill 8am for the border to open and then go through that process and onto the bus for the jouney to hue in vietnam. see what i mean.... why would they do a bus at that time? i could get a day one, but that goes on monday if your lucky!!! just gotta keep smiling!! take care all.....

... by the fog sea. They have a large pool, to which I know I will be dipping in if not for winter. But as I was told, in summer the northern region is not a place for visit. And so I leave the pool in her peaceful state of mirrored water. As we walked in the avenues in the shadows of trees, the mystic blanket of mistiness faded. It was ten in the ...

... 3 hours. Got Tuk Tuk organised by Hels while I checked our bags were still on the bus, and went to hostel. Also at some local district borders a man in uniform gets on the bus to check ID cards of the locals. One took one young lad off the bus and we just went off and left him there ( we had travelled about 25 kms so a good long walk home for him ) Never found out why but also went through a police block. Not interested in us. Our hostel was a bit out of the ...

We went and had pizza for dinner and met Matthew, P Gade and Lamtang. When we came home this Tookgair was inside. The kids aren't so scared of them any more, but I knew they wouldn't sleep well with it inside and so it had to be put out. Kanchana said that when she was a girl, she made a ...

... there are doubtless a few things I still could learn there) and the night market where you can find the most expensive and worst food in town but where the music is traditional, free and makes a visit worthwhile. We had first considered visiting Chiang Rai because boat trips leave here for Tha Ton 180 kilometres away and the river passes several hill tribe settlements and elephant camps. We had also heard about a guest house located in one of the hill villages ...

I headed back to Viang Vieng to celebrate St Patrick's Day, it was a long trek back (36hour bus) but i made it with plenty of time to relax and get ready for my Paddy's Day Celebrations. A few Irish girls where doing face painting,so yep of course i got the flag on my face.They were not that good at doing it tho- their Irish flags where OK, but there shamrocks where pathetic- They were not really impressed ...