Haloween! No celebrations for us today...both suffering from hangovers! Well i was and leanne had a miserable cold. (sympathy..aaar) Ordered our Laos visas 1900 including bus to Chang Kong (border town). Got kinda fed up of doing nothing so persuaded Leanne to book a 3 day JUNGLE trek, also 1900 each (meals included, beer and opium extra!) Chilled around the pool with Ian and Elaine, who were trekking with us. Went out for cheap but tasty pizza then played s**t-head, a card game we learned in Pai. 1st November: Oh bless the irish for waking us up at the crack of dawn with a good old drunken arguement, sure beats cockerals. Got the songthaw to the mountain village stopping at a quintesentially thai market; large vats of smelling stew, roar pig brain, homemade fireworks...a fly haven!
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