Voyage Of The Odd Essay

It’s the day after Valentines Day, Sunday the 15th of February, about 8am in the morning and I am woken with a start by the voice of the girl who was sleeping next to me who’s name I never did find out asking, “Are we there?”

I had no idea, but after 15 hours on the over night bus from Luang Prabang in Laos down to Huay Xai the border town where I first entered the country I really hoped so, and I looked still shaking sleep from my eyes to the seats in front of me where my travel companions sat, unlike most of the westerners on the bus we had an advantage, Pong speaks Thai, and joining him on his trip between Spicylaos and Spicythai in Chiang Mai made this the easiest trip I’ve made. (more…)

Well I haven’t updated for a couple of weeks, Chiang Mai was good to me and I met up with a whole bunch of different groups of  people from else where in my travels, and now I’m in Laos after spending two days on the slow boat down the Mekong River (Which I’ll write about soon) going straight from Spicythai Backpackers to their sister hostel Spicylaos Backpackers I at once bumped into another group I’d been hanging out with back in Chiang Mai, and while it was tempting to head of to Vang Vieng to go tubing I decided the hit on my budget would be too big, and so I’m going to chill out here in Luang Prabang for a few days and see how I take to Laos, I don’t know all that much about the country so a bit of research is  needed! I do know th at I have over one million kip (The Laos currency) so I’m going to look forward to spending my million over the next week.

Right now I’m staying at Spicylaos Backpackers which is actually a UNESCO world heritage building, which I’ll write about down the road.