Charoen Hotel Udon Thani

... name of the project but I'm sure if you mailed Mutt Mee they would give you details) and the other is visiting Hmong refugees in a detention centre close by (http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/0 1/15/opinion/opinion_30093248.php). We discovered that the 15 day visa on entry is not extendable, pain, and also that there is still the remnants of trouble going on in the south, so the decision was made for us, we would cycle to Bangkok (about a week) and then take a train or ...

... et j'ai mon sac de couchage du Népal alors je crois que je vais faire ça ! Eh bien oui je suis retournée au Silapa et en tête a tête avec moi même ce soir c'était filet mignon de veau sur purée et petits légumes. Moi j'aurais bien pris une côte de porc à l'échine dans le porc le plus gras comme disait mamie, mais en discutant avec le cuisinier j'apprends que ni cela ni la bavette ou autre morceau n' intéresse les expatriés qui ne connaissent que le filet mignon ...

... village. We spent our days just vegitating by the pool, using the villa's bicycles to explore the rural villages scattered around the area, and taking a boat trip on the huge lake - which was a real photo-opportunity, with lotus flowers, fishermen in small wooden boats, and water buffalo wallowing contentedly. We also visited Ban Chiang museum and the village, and took a ...

... mention my whole outside leg was red. I sat in the Udonthani bus station terrified of the 14 hour bus ride that awaited me and I proceeded to squeeze out about a gallon of green goop like toothpaste out of the hole. Thoughts of amputation, gangrene and horrible infections swirled around in my mind the whole bus ride...

... hours before we can checkin looking at the lucky people on the other side of the glass who have boarding cards and can get through immigration. We we finally get there we were like kids at christmas. We now had shops/internet/swiming pool movies all to play with so the last 3 hours passed quickly. We arrive in jakarta at night so we are a little worried about that but we should be okay.

... would take us to our guest house for 50 baht we climbed in the back. Nong Khai is such an amazing Thai town. After being in the tourist section of Chiang Mai it was nice to see street vendors selling grilled chicken and papaya salad, tons of dogs, and a lack of English signs. It ...

... was sunscreen. It said UVA and UVB all over the front and then had lots of Thai writing on it. The decision was made that it must be sunscreen when we opened it and it even had that sunscreen smell. So I lathered it on, a few extra layers on my nose (just to be safe - because we are on our anti-malaria medication now which means we are extra sun-sensitive). Well, we would have had more protection lathering ourselves up with cooking oil. Apparently it was just ...

... the capital city of Laos is just a stone's throw from Thailand. As is the case with all Lao's cities, the population is quite small -- much smaller than the population of any other capitol city I can think of: our guidebook tallies it as just over 200,000. The city's history stretches quite far back, changing hands between the Burmese, Khmers, Siamese, Vietnamese, until finally landing in the control of the French in the late 1800s. The French were the first ...

... towns I've ever visited. Two rivers wrap around the town, temples are everywhere, and facing the old royal palace is a steep hill, topped by a Buddhist stupa, with magnificent views in all directions. I spent three nights here and had a wonderful time. I even got to meet a couple of young monks who wanted to practice their English. It's nine hours by bus from Luang Prabang to Vientiane, the capitol. Because much of the journey was ...

Vientiene- our last destination in Laos. Wasn't hugely impressed as it's no Luang Prabang but I s'pose Laos has to have some sort of city somewhere. Pottered about for a bit trying to get a feel for the place. They have a huge Arc De Triomphe type replica thing there. Apparently the Americans donated some concrete for a runway and Laos decided to build that instead. Must have been some breakdown in communications- "a runway you say....must be one of ...