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We arrived in Kuala Lumpur and spent a few days climbing tall buildings and eating hot Malaysian food, courtesy of Simon's Malaysian friend, William, before flying up to Bangkok. I have to admit I was quite worried in advance about Bangkok being 'too much', but we surprised ourselves by actually really liking it! We didn't have long there<br />though, just enough time to sort out a few visas before bus-ing it to a small town in eastern Thailand called Ubon Ratchatani. It turns out that hardly anyone goes there as it is not a typical route into Laos and we turned out to be quite a novelty! At first the town seemd dead and we wondered where we had ended up, but it turns out that they were just preparing for a big local festival, which was amazing when it actually got going! They were as interested in us as we were them and we had lots of people talking to us, taking our photos and I was even interviewed for local television! The local chief of police just kept asking Simon how old he was!<br />

Jet plane to tuk tuk in ten days!

Simon and Adele
2006-02-25 13:58:39

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We arrived in Kuala Lumpur and spent a few days climbing tall buildings and eating hot Malaysian food, courtesy of Simon's Malaysian friend, William, before flying up to Bangkok. I have to admit I was quite worried in advance about Bangkok being 'too much', but we surprised ourselves by actually really liking it! We didn't have long there
though, just enough time to sort out a few visas before bus-ing it to a small town in eastern Thailand called Ubon Ratchatani. It turns out that hardly anyone goes there as it is not a typical route into Laos and we turned out to be quite a novelty! At first the town seemd dead and we wondered where we had ended up, but it turns out that they were just preparing for a big local festival, which was amazing when it actually got going! They were as interested in us as we were them and we had lots of people talking to us, taking our photos and I was even interviewed for local television! The local chief of police just kept asking Simon how old he was!

It took us nearly a whole day and 3 separate buses to cross the border
into Laos. The last of which was not really a bus, and Boozing in Bangkok with friends Allen and Clare.which would 'comfortably' (perhaps never the right word) seat maybe 16 people. We reached a total of 32 people plus baskets of 'delights' at one point,
with people hanging off all sides and sitting in laps! We just kept
laughing and the locals just kept eating!

We are now in Pakse, Laos for a few days before heading even further
south and away from civilisation ie no electricity. We saw some amazing waterfalls yesterday and today I made friends with the local monks who I disappointed greatly by not being able to tell them exactly where Dennis Bergkamp (or Le-wis Bergkamp) lived. Everyone is SOOO friendly it is making the journey such a pleasure.