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...
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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....
The Andaman coast and islands
We stayed at Ao Nang for almost two weeks. It is on the coast close to Krabi town and has pictures perfect beaches as well as plenty of taxi boats to take you to...
