There and back again

Landed in Mumbai (Bombay) a couple of days ago and have really enjoyed the place. It is the financial capital of India as well as the home of Bollywood and the most populated city (18 and a bit million people) Continue Reading »

With just over six weeks of our epic adventure left we sadly leave Thailand and south east Asia for India today. It’s not that we are sad about going to India, far from it, but we have had such a great time here we just don’t want to leave. And of course it is coming to that time where we are going to have to start thinking about going home, going back to work (finding a job for me) etc etc things we haven’t thought about since we left home. I don’t expect anyone to have sympathy for us!
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Travelling in Laos can be arduous. Towns and cities are spread out and the transport is slow. We got a “minivan” from Luang Prabang to our next destination Vang Vieng. Continue Reading »

After two days on a boat we arrived in Luang Prabang. It is a peaceful, sleepy town set where the Rivers Nam and Mekong meet (confluence ?). Continue Reading »

We had a few options to chose from for this leg of the journey. We could have flown but that seemed a bit easy and too quick (and Lao airlines don’t have the best safety record). Some of the roads are unsealed and still under construction and are reportedly a bit bumpy to say the least. We could have also chosen the speed boat option (which looked like a plank of wood with an engine on the back) and crammed ouselves in with 8 or 10 other tourists with no room to move, inches from the water for a six hour whiteknuckle ride down the Mekong. We would have had to wear crash helmets in the speedboat when considering 95% of the population of this country seems to get around on motorbikes and no one wears a helmet, it suggested the speedboat may not be the safest way to travel. We chose the 2 day slow boat option, which is just that. Slow. But a great way to meander down the river at a leisurely pace Continue Reading »