Cashews - the most awesome thing ever!

Cashews are my new favourite thing right now.

We are in Koh Phayam, which is probably the best island in the world and it is covered in cashew trees.

Bangkok baby, yeah!

We decided to spend a day in Bangkok as we had to stop over here on our way to Koh Phayam (very excited about going to Koh Phayam).

The Temples of Doom!

We spent two days at the Angkor temples. We were planning to do three days, but oh, my God - it is hot out there, and after a while it's just temple bloody temple...

My Attempt to Understand Cambodia

We fairly spontaneously decided to come to Cambodia. I didn't know too much about Cambodia, I really just wanted to see Angkor Wat.

My Birthday - a holiday within our holiday

It was my birthday whilst we were in Luang Prabang we for a special treat we booked a fancy pants place in the mountains. It was amazing.

Luang Prabang

We'd heard a lot of good things about Luang Prabang, so we were very excited to get there. As usual it was a bit of a hassle actually getting to the town. I had a headache and the contrast from being on the nice relaxing boat to the bustle and hassle of the port. 'Port' is not the right word for it. I guess you could call it a sandbank near a big hill. Nic had to drag our big bags up this hill. He is getting very good at doing this, but he does have a little bitch about the big purple bag everytime we move. He looks at me accusingly but what's mine is his, so it's 'our big purple bag'.

Boat Trip!!

We finally had to drag ourselves away from the beautiful seclusion of Bamboo Nest and make our way into Laos! Our visa for Thailand was about to run out, otherwise we could have stayed there forever.

We got on a proper 'local people' bus and it took us down to Chiang Kong so that we could get a boat across the Mekong into Laos. This was all detailed in the Lonely Planet and had been confirmed by lots of people so we were very confident that we knew what we were doing. But no...

Chiang Rai... a little bit like Sarajevo, but much nicer

We stayed an extra day in Pai because the bus to Chiang Rai was already full when we went to book it. We're now leaving tomorrow and our bus leaves at 7.00am. We had the choice of either 7.00am or 5.30am, I think we chose well.