Blogs from Nong Khai, North-East Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 2

I had a beautiful day today. I can't explain it better than by saying I just know I'm in the right place. Today was a long one. As with the other mornings, I had a hard time waking up, and an even harder time staying awake during the morning session. We opened class as usual, sitting in a circle with our left palms facing upwards and right palms facing down, hands adjoined, knees all but barely touching. Pancho went into detailed lecture on the Trikonasana poses of the sequence. I have to admit, I fought to stay awake, HARD. Thank goodness for note taking. I was so relieved (as always) when we finally got into the asana practice. Finally, a chance to move my body and wake up. The asana sequence feels so easy to me. ... read more

As I sit here looking across the Mekong River in to Laos from my little slice of Thai tranquillity, I thought it was time to share the experiences and adventures that Thailand has provided us with. Tomorrow we continue our journey in to Laos, another country, another culture, another beer. We have had 10 amazing days in Thailand which began what feels like a month ago in the chaos that is known as Bangkok. After a 22-hour journey with no sleep and plenty of emotions, we arrived in Bangkok. Walking in to the wall of heat that greeted us at the airport, we shed our layers of clothes and shook of the remnants of winter bracing ourselves for long two months ahead of us. After 40 minutes of flying through Bangkok traffic, the taxi driver, in ... read more

Sabadee, Hello En résumé nous sommes partis le 14 decembre au Laos pour revenir le 24 decembre en le 14 dec de Chiang kong ,(thailande) 7 heures de bateau sur le mékong. vers Packbeng. 1 dodo à packbeng. De packbeng à Luang Prabang 8 heures de bateau sur le Mékong. 3 dodos plus ou moins à Luang Prabang. Ensuite de Luang Prabang à >Viang Vieng 5 heures de bus, car l'autobus a brisé les bearing de roue. une chance le conducteur a tout changé.(route très sinueuse) effrayante. Viang Vieng 3 dodos, kayack, etc. de Viang Vieng 4 hrs de bus vers Vientiane (capital du Laos) 2 dodos à la capitale. On repart le 24 du Laos. A 25 km de là le pont de l'amitié (Friendship Bridge) , puis on arrive en Thaïlande. ET POUR LE ... read more

We didn’t get much sleep on the overnight VIP bus, but were happy to reach Udon Thani around 9am and find a seat on the hour long local bus to Nong Khai. The journey was pretty uneventful, and on arrival we found a tuk-tuk to drop us in town and checked in to a nice little guesthouse near the river. We spent the afternoon walking around the market before having dinner at a rooftop restaurant overlooking the Mekong river. There were not many tourists in Nong Khai, and the only others we saw tended to be older European men – some with their young Thai girlfriends – who had come to renew their visa by hopping across the river to Laos and back again. Next morning we hired out a scooter – with Debbie’s lack of ... read more

From Chiang Mai we took an overnight bus to Udon Thani to transfer up to the border town of Nong Khai. Now normally the bus journey itself wouldn’t warrant much mention but on this occasion feel it is worth it. We arrived at the bus terminal knowing that we could get a bus at approx 7 pm for the 12 hour journey to Udon Thani. When we arrived at 5pm and went to the window we were told that the last bus out was at 7 pm and the only remaining seats were at the back of the bus and did not recline - we hesitated and checked that it had aircon and that there were no other buses going later that evening - after being told this was the last one we reluctantly paid and ... read more