Well Thailand has conveniently changed the length of the VISA they give you if you cross a land boarder and they include the day that you cross!!!!! My flight out is on the 17th and my VISA expires on the 16th - good work Jane :) Now I get to be officially be an over stayer and get charged 500 Baht for the privilege - baaah Thai govt.
The boarder crossing between Laos and Thailand is across the Mekong River - this is such a changing river and it has been fascinating to see it along the way in different countries, in different landscape and view its many different uses.
I travelled this part of my journey with a guy called Matt from London and we were both really excited about having some Thai bus luxury with AC and sealed roads - well we shouldn't have spoken so soon the bus we ended up on to Chiang Rai was more disastrous than in Laos apart from the fact that it wasn't overloaded...
Chiang Ria was just a stop off point to break the journey into Chiang Mai and the second hand book shop was probably the highlight of this destination - such a mesmerising place with wall to wall stocked full of books...
The bus the next day to Chiang Mai was the Thai luxury we were hoping for :)
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