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April 11, 2007
The Endless Journey. . . .
Two days ago we left Luangprabang on a boat to go to Chaing Mai, Thailand. We're still not there.
The first day was on a boat, travelling up the Mekong. It was good to start with. The scenery was beautiful and it was pretty peaceful. We were on the boat for about nine hours, when we reached Pak Beng, a little village on the banks of the Mekong.
We stayed here for the night. Early the next morning we took a different boat further up the river.
This was supposed to be a shorter journey that took us right to the border, where we could cross into Thailand and get a bus straight to Chaing Mai. Of course things didn't go to plan. The boat was 2 or 3 hours late which meant that by the time we arrived the border was closed. Not so much of a problem. We just stayed there for a night then the next morning (this morning) we got up early and crossed the border. This was suprisingly easy and I thought things were looking up. I was wrong. Once in Thailand we saw lots of adverts for buses to Chaing Mai, unfortunately everyone of them was full. So we decided that the local bus would be just as good. On arrival at the station we found that this bus was also full. Eventually we decided to get a bus to Chaing Rai (on the way to Chaing Mai) because we were asured that buses leave from Chaing Rai to Chaing Mai all the time. Two and a half hours on a bus later we arrived in Chaing Rai. We went striaght to the ticket office to find that all the buses are full until 4.30pm. (5 hours later)
We are now waiting. We only hope that when we reach Chaing Mai, at what will probbably be about 9pm we can find somewhere to stay...
Posted by admins at April 11, 2007 7:57 AM