Off up North and into Laos

We left Ko Pan Nyan last week, it wasn't that difficult to leave in the end, it was becoming a bit samey. We headed up North to Bangkok on the sleeper train and spent a day in bangkok. Bangkok is great, its got such a buzz. Then we headed North to Thailand's 2nd city, Chiang Mai.

Chiang Mai looked like a cracking place to spend some time, we went to a wierd reggae bar with a small Thai guy with huge dreadlocks playing Bob Marley songs, hmm. There were a group of black people from England and the Thai's were obsessed by them, they all wanted to dance with them 'booty style', pretty cringey but funny.

Unfortunately we couldn't stay in Chiang Mai, we'd spent too long in lazying around on the Island beaches in the South. The next day we took an arduous bus trip to the Laos border and the following day crossed into Laos and entered the twighlight zone I think, one of the strangest weeks of my life.