Cambodian cookery class
After sampling some lovely food in the country, especially pumpkin curry and fish amok, we enrolled in a cookery class. We visited the market en mass with our teacher, identifying local ingredients, and buying...
Category: Big Trip
Overland to Vientiane
After an 11 hour bus journey from Luang Prabang, through stunning countryside (which Sophie missed as she had her head in a sickbag), we were pretty relieved to finally arrive in the Laos capital,...
Tamarind cookery school
One of the things you notice when in Laos is the constant smell of barbeque. Almost all home food is cooked on hot coals outside on the street. After a visit to one of...
Luang Prabang
We had no idea of what to expect of Lung Prabang. To be honest, we hadn’t even heard of it before this trip. We ended up liking it so much, we extended our stay!...
An epic border crossing and cruising experience
The Thailand/Laos border crossing at Houay Xai is one of the only ones which you need a boat for. Once we had made it into Laos, obtained our visas, taken a tuktuk and bought...
Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai
From Chiang Mai, we headed over towards the Laos border at Chiang Khong. We decided to take local buses (where there’s no air con, but you can buy sticky rice in bamboo stick) and...
Our day with the Elephants!
After some thorough research, we decided to spend a day at Elephant Nature Park, a pioneering Elephant sanctuary which is just an hour’s drive from Chiang Mai. Because visitor numbers are limited, and the...
Chiang Mai
We entered Chiang Mai by night train, where we had a private bunk room, the best train food so far and a lovely sunrise view of the rice fields outside the city. The walled...
Thai cookery school
As you all will know, food has played a big role in our trip. Olly has been keeping a food diary and hopes to recreate some of his favourite dishes back at Gordon Street....