Got on bus 8.30 am and traveled through the mountains down to Chiang Mai, was an incredible trip, so beautiful! Mountains covered in dense forest for as far as the eye could see, it is hard to describe but the view was so overwhelming that it brought tears to my eyes. Got to Chiang Mai around midday and had about 45min wait for the bus so I got something to eat for lunch at my fav vego restaurant. After lunch I got back on the bus for a 6 hour drive to Chiang Khong was a terrible trip as there were some bitchy Australian girls who kept making us stop for cigarette breaks. I had just found out that the border closed at 6pm and my visa expired after that day, so I was in a hurry to get to the border, needless to say I missed the immigration and had to pay an extra 500B, good lesson learnt to always ask about border closing times. Chiang Khong was a nice town to stay anyway, my place was 150B my own shower, toilet, very clean and right on the Meh Kong River. I had a walk around town got some delicious Pad Thai for dinner read my book and got an early night sleep. Next morning I got some breakfast, scrambled eggs with home made bread, then went through Thai immigration, very easy paid 500B then got taxi boat across the Meh Kong into Laos. Getting visa for Laos was pretty straight forward had to pay 30US dollars and hand over a passport photo got 30 day Visa. From the border I caught a mini bus to Luang Nam Tha the trip was very slow due to bad roads but quite beautiful trip through little villages and big hills/mountains. The villages were very basic with houses made out of timber and bamboo with thatching roofs, lots of happy children playing everywhere and lots of animals everywhere, little pigs, dogs, chickens, cows the pigs were very cute running alongside the bus, dogs laying in the middle of the main road and cows wandering around on the road too. Blah blah blah I'm going to go now and get some dinner as rambling xx Love Matt
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Hi Matt, Julie here. I had to ask your Mum to explain to me for the 3rd time how to post a comment - so finally I am here. How great your trip sounds - you are packing so much into your time in Asia - you'll have the most wonderful memories that no-one can ever take away from you. If only my blah blah rambling could be so exciting. I loved hearing about your time with the elephants - how confident you were looking just like one of the locals. Now I know what to do hope to keep in touch more regularly. luv Julie.xo
ReplyDeleteHi Matt dad here great to speak other day. Tim also enjoyed the chat with you hope it gets him going with some direction your a good brother (and an even better son) hope you enjoyed your trek?bye for now dad
ReplyDeleteHey Julie, lovely to hear from you and thanks for being persistent in posting your comment. Yes I am having a wonderful time! Im just loving travelling, especially now im in Laos, it is so beautiful! Hope to hear from you soon xx Matt
ReplyDeleteHi Dad, thanks for your sweet message, it was great talking to you and Tim, I hope it inspires him to come do some traveling. Love you xx