Chiang Khong Stories


To Laos we go!

We arrived at the Border town and checked into our Guest house. It was up high overlooking the mighty Mekong River and I was happy to be there. We dropped the bags and immediately grabbed a beer to sit and take in the view. Children were playing and swimming in the water, there was a gardener tending some crops along the shoreline, and a few fisherme...


The Ghost town that is Chiang Khong

After a quick brekkie at our guesthouse we jumped on a bus heading to the northern border of Thailand and Laos, being independent travelers we fucked off the organised tours and decided to sort it out for ourselves, I still haven't concluded whether or not this was a good idea. The rest of our mini bus was filled with a german tour group so we spent the...


Pak Beng

So we picked up our visas made it to the slow boat port (about a 15min walk) and realised the ticket was only 100bht cheaper gutted ha. We boarded the boat at 11:30 the trip was going to take 6 hours then stop off at Pak Beng for the night then carry on the 6th for another 8/9 hours. As we got on we realised this was going to be a long trip, we ...


Bus to Chaing Khong

So today we started 1 of our many bus journeys to Chiang Khong so we could cross over to Loas on the the 5th, set off about 12:00, boring as hell also felt abit sick they are rubbish roads on a tiny mini=bus not great as you can imagine. We arrived at about 18:00 and the town was like a ghost town, literally there were tumble weeds rolling down the ...