Today was a key travel day. To maximize our time in Champasak we had stayed an extra night. Which meant that we had to travel in one day back to Pakse, to the border, through the border crossing, and then to the Ubon Raitchithani airport in time to catch a 3pm flight back to Bangkok. As our flight to Bhutan was at 5am, missing this connection wo...

My Lao visa expired today so I took the Pakse-Ubon bus and here I am, back in Thailand and not very happy about it. Ubon Ratchathani is a big city and it's so much different than anything in Laos. I will only stay for 1 night. My plan is to reach Northern Thailand within a week.

We traveled from Khon Kaen to Srisaket province by way of Ubon Ratchathani (we later found out we could have taken a shorter route). We were on local buses all day, until we reached Srisaket in the evening. I hadn't realized we were headed to a village over an hour from the actual town of Srisaket. When we got to the Srisaket bus station we miss...

From KK to Ubon was a nightmare bus journey. Lucky me, I got what I have dubbed the "Farang Front Seat": up front so that everyone can keep an eye on you. It's considerate, but not really very comforting when you can actually see the oncoming traffic. After the third near-miss I stopped watching the road. It's back to third class trains for this...