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Well we went through Thai immigration this morning and paid our huge exit tax of five Baht (about 13 cents) and then hopped aboard the "ferry" which is really just a long, wooden canoe like boat with a noisy, smelly outboard engine for the five minute crossing to Huay Xai in Laos. We went through Laotian immigration with no problems - it ends up you can now get a 30 day visa on the spot making our efforts in Bangkok a waste of time and money. We figured we needed to change some money and ha...

"Sabadi" - "Hello" Welcome to Laos. Today was the day we would finally leave China. We got up nice and early and jumped on the bus to Louang Namtha. It took about an hour to get to the border which was not too busy. After getting our exit stamp from China we drove over no-mans land to the Laos side. We got our visas checked and stamped and then got on the bus again. There were landslides all over the roads. Laos and southern China have had some serious rainfall over the last month. In some pl...

With the river trip to Huay Xai no longer viable, I suddenly had two days to kill before I needed to be at the border. I stopped in at a local school to see if they needed any help for the day, only to be told that it was school holidays! Lazy. In Luang Prabang I met a French guy who was travelling all over SE Asia on his bike. I didn't have the time or willpower to emulate such a task, but thought it would be nice to at least see some of the northern highlands of Laos on a saddle somehow. S...

Quick stop in Louang Nam Tha . . .Our way of keeping track of the distances traveled during our journey . . .