After a nice dinner Yesterday with Kham, our host, and the three Germans, Patrik and Patrik and Thommy, with rice whiskey, buffalo meat, sticky rice and veggys, I went to bed. Today the alarm was on 5.20am and after a shower and packing my things I left my room, double-O-seven, and walked out in the dark morning and picked up my breakfast across the street!
I met Kham and with help of the light in my mobile I slowly walked down the stony and hilly way to the boat. I started to eat my breakfast and soon all of us were on the boat and we left Pak Beng in the dark!
It was cold so a wrapped myself in blankets and layed down, which was nice. We had plenty of room on the boat and that was good. After a while the sun came up almost spiritually and it became warmer and warmer!
Around 10 in the morning it was really warm and we reached our first destination, the local village for a visit. Kham told us about different minority people and then took us around in the village. A woman was grinding the rice, the roaster was sitting on a pin, which reminded me of my homestay! An older woman was sitting outside her house and the men were doing smith works the old way making long knifes!
As it was Sunday the children were not in school but playing and shouting and having fun!
They were drying tobacco, they had live catfishes and live froggs, probably for dinner later! It was very nice following their doings this day!
Back to the boat and we had a nice lunch like yesterday and then we came nearer the boarder, but the boat had to pass the border quite a bit to the landing point and then we had to take tuk tuk back for 20 minutes. Below are the boats at the landind point!
The Laos border went very smoothly and we had to take a bus across a new bridge to the Thai border. I got a new VISA lasting till the 1 of February, the day I leave Thailland!
When thru there was this lady asking if I wanted to go to Chiang Mai and , Yes of course! I had to wait half an hour and then we went away. My friends at the boat preferred to stay in Chiang Khong, the border villages!
We were a Thai and an Australian couple and me in the minivan that took us to the centre of Chiang Mai and we arrived at 10.15 pm. As allways, its hard to find your bearings but I located a hotel and started walking. Most places were full and after a while I decided to spend one night at an expencive hotel, Vieng Mantra, for 600 SEK incl breakfast! It was very nice with an atrium with a pool! When I got into the room I went on internet and found another good located guest house for the next three days for totally 400 SEK! So, it was 4 nights for 250 SEK/night! OK!
The sunset from the minivan when we left the border!!!
Good night - I'm a bit tired now!
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