Laos and chicken feet

So we’ve just been loving Pai for the last few days, visiting a beautiful waterfall and going to some of the hot springs near by – hot being an understatement!!!
As I’m sure you all know we are both jewellery fiends and so have each decided to buy a beautiful ring from one of our favourite Pai friends, Flook, who makes the most amazing pieces.

We also have a big itinerary update! Rather than spending the next three or four days getting down to the islands Continue reading

Elephants, waterfalls, rafting

We missed the bus.

After setting a number of alarms and quadruple checking the time of the pick-up, we picked up some breakfast rice (very leisurely) and sauntered to the meeting point in order to hitch our ride, only to discover that it had left half an hour ago. After some initial panicking and rice flinging (mainly from Ellen) we decided to negotiate with a tuktuk driver to take us all the way to the elephant sanctuary (1000 BHT). Being slightly less of a headless chicken than us girlies, he offered to contact the company, and they came back for us, so all was well and we arrived Continue reading