Day 21: Taking the easy way out (or in)
November 4th 2009 Travel between Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang (in Laos) is very popular with tourists. There are two main ways to get from one city to the other:
1. Take a bus from Chiang Mai to the Thai/Laos border. This takes a full day and you have to sleep on the Thai side of the border. The next morning you take a boat across the Mekong River to Laos and clear immigration in the village of Huay Xai. Fr
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