And so it started...our 3 day epic mammoth marathon mission to shift from Chiang Mai, Thailand....all the way over mountains, down rivers, through paddy fields to get our tired little backsides to Luang Prabang, Laos. Last time we took a slow boat, we regretted it...but a multitude of factors ranging from lack of other options, general foolishness, misplaced optimism and naive interest in river scenery led us to pick this laboured transport method all over again...except this time "slow boat" meant "slow, crampy, dithering, stop-starty confuddlement, with a bit of mini-bus thrown in to assist in the theft of 3 days of your life"....and it did exactly what it said on the tin! The mini-bus part of the journey was actually not too bad....it had air-con, there were equal numbers of people and seats and the
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