Don Khamao 4

Don Khamao 3

Don Khamao 2

Don Det 2

Don Det 1

Don Khamao 1

Vang Vieng 2

Vang Vieng 1

Last day of the sunset cruise

Work, carambola and a quick run

Kuang Si Waterfall

Morning Market and Bears

Rented a scooter and rode over to Free The Bears sanctuary which is located just inside a national park beside popular waterfalls.
More sunset and cinema night

Sunset Cruise day 2

Arrival in Luang Prabang

We took a pit stop around midnight for food and drink. Lisa wasn't too please with her Lao style vegetable soup which turned out to be hot water and lettuce. My Laos beef was good, a but like aLes mer
Bus to Luang Prabang

The bus left Terminal 2 in Chiang Rai at noon and arrived at 5am in Luang Prabang.
The border cross was really easy as the bus dropped you at the Thailand side and picked you up at the Laos side.
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The Blue Temple

Blue temple
The white temple

Not farm from Elefant Valley was the white temple...
Elephants

Spent the morning at Elephant Valley which was very nice. They are trying to create a safe haven for the rescued elephants where no one gets to ride them and they arent forced to go for walks withLes mer
Chiang Rai

The driver from Pai to Chiang Rai went back through Chiang Mai and took about 9 hours down winding roads but I slept most the way so it wasn't too bad.
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Exploring the crust of the Pai slice 2

We then went onwards to the Pai Canyon.
Very nice area which I didn't really explore because the walkways were so narrow and I hate heights so I wouldn't try seeing much more than the initial area.
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Exploring the crust of the Pai slice 1

Exploring Pai's crust we found the Land Split which was pretty cool, we got to walk inside the floor of the split and then went to see the Bamboo Bridge which is a walkway through rice fields. We'reLes mer
Chilled out day in Pai

Just had a potter round.
To the White Buddha

Breakfast and a walk around the village then back to the bungalow before deciding to run up to the White Buddha. The steps killed me and just missed the sun going behind the mountains but it was stillLes mer
The winding road to Pai

Early start for the trip to Pai which is only around 80K but it takes 4 hours and we were all handed sick bags at the start of the journey because of the nearly 750 bends taking you through theLes mer