you might be able to tell from my face that it's just around six o'clock in the morning it's very
early it is still dark outside we are really really really really really really really hoping
that these people come to pick us up um we've paid for it we're hoping that we're on our way to the
boat to Lao let's see what happens currently still in Chiang Rai so we've been staying at
this hotel for two nights and on the way to this hotel when we arrived we booked a slow
boat from just like a little lady on the side of the road from a recommendation from another tour
place it wasn't very super official or anything but I think that's how things work around here
we got a little receipt it was 3 300 baht and they said they'd pick us up here at six so we've
got about 10 minutes to go now and um just hoping they come because our Visa is running out today
only 12 minutes late but it's fine you can't expect to pick everyone up at 6am
it's probably going around loads of different hotels but says he's coming so that's good
there's two Sann hotels one Sann Boutique and one Sann hotel they've gone to the other one
but it's like five minutes down the road so they're coming oh yes thank you
I think another person's joining us in this little bus yeah usually you get a mini bus to do this but
looks like there's two people so we're gonna be a bit squished in here can you come on this side I
didn't think we'd all be squishing into a car this morning turns out we are going on in the car for
two hours yeah to be fair it's very comfortable so it's now official we are going to Lao well
unless this goes wrong there's I think six of us that are going with this specific company
I don't know if there'll be more of us once we pass over the Border but it doesn't seem that
busy here and I know online it said apply for the Visa online because the queues will be super long
thank you that was a quick bus across the border I think now we gotta go to get a lao Visa because
the last one was just to stamp out our Thai Visa we just filled in our passport details
and hopefully you'll see us on the other side with a full Visa hopefully we're in Laos
we're currently just over the Border in Laos now or Lao as I should be pronouncing it and
they drop you off in a sort of checkpoint here where they can sort out your sim card
some food some snacks change your money for you and everything which is pretty good because a lot
of people didn't even bring any money with them we obviously did change many probably shouldn't
have he said here you get a good rate you should have done it here but it's fine we've done it now
and yeah we're just gonna stay here for about half an hour and then we're off to the slow
boat for part one of the slow boat anyway you do for future YouTube yeah wow yeah wow I want
to follow you yes if we do good service don't don't come don't forget to really review us
okay what's the name? If you book a slow boats come to this guy very good
we've got on to this slow boat and there's just loads of bus seats like really old
bus seats they're very comfortable to be fair see what you say in like five
hours yeah because you can sit on them the boat is fully open like fully open
but because it's quite slow I assume and it's not going to be like insanely windy or wet
or wet oh yeah if it starts raining we'll we'll be in trouble but we've got snacks
but we've got our snacks we've got our SIM card
we've got everything that we kind of need for this journey
so we've been on this boat now for about one hour the boat ride today I think is
just over six hours and it doesn't get us all the way to Luang Prabang we actually are stopping over
in Pakbeng where we've already booked a hotel for tonight basically just going there to sleep eat
and then repeat the boat trip tomorrow from Pakbeng to Luang Prabang but tomorrow the boat starts really early yeah
but gets there same time it's because so that journey is like eight or nine hours crazy it's
not as early as we start today though we don't have to get up at five o'clock in the morning
but the boat will start at 8 30 so I think we have to be there around 7 30 in the morning
we made it. yay. Now we need to park up for like 20 minutes
well we made it into a minibus Are you sure this is who we booked with? Yeah. Villa Mekong.
nice okay that's perfect wow I don't think we've been around so many people in so long
have we no oh my God it's fun to hear loads of different accents yeah different languages
different accents some other stories lots of fun stuff wow that's really nice this is a very quick
tour of our room at villa meKong guest house it was around $12 a night so you can imagine it's
reasonably basic it's got a table and chair bed soap toothbrushes surprisingly bottles of water
air con and it has a bathroom with a shower and a toilet everything you need everything you need
we're super hungry we've got the same thing all over again tomorrow but a little bit longer so bye
good morning from Pakbeng it's about eight o'clock in the morning we stayed here last
night really small quiet Town few restaurants not really much to show now we need to find some lunch
and breakfast and basically all the food for today before we get on the boat yeah all right let's see
what we can fight yeah I mean we need something for breakfast so I guess croissants will be good
once we have a coffee let's get uh one of these one of those one one of that one and then one okay
so we've got all the food that we need for today we've also got some pot noodles already on the
boat I think we kind of prepped for a long day of traveling but there is a little shop on the
boat it's not the same boat as yesterday it's actually laid out quite differently
but it has a table and stuff this time so fingers crossed we still have the same seat
Good setup for some editing. Got a plug. yeah I wonder if that works yeah I don't know where it's getting the power from but hopefully
that'll be good yeah this is much smaller so yesterday there was so many empty spaces
but this one's a bit more full we've got some croissants and this thing for breakfast it is huge
the croissant feels like it could knock somebody out wow but I'm sure it'll still be tasty cheers
yes thats bread. I like bread I think it's we can't expect to be getting top-notch pastries in Lao
the French do pastries the best and we're quite a long way away from France. coffee in the morning
get that morning routine in oh yeah even went on a boat cheers
I think we've arrived about a two-hour walk from the middle of town so I think we have to get a tuktuk
hope this bag doesn't uh break it oh my God it's breaking
this handle is not safe and it's got my laptop in it's got the Drone in that falls into the
water I will cry I will cry yeah I will double cry look at that it's like it's coming out
oh my God look at this hill oh [ __ ] okay look at that it's broken
I have to carry it ike this
this is not how this bag it's meant to be carried but
we've been carrying like 20 kilos in this bag I think you're only meant to be carrying 7
we'll have to pop it back
and then I don't trust that all right let's try and find some form of transportation
excuse me sorry. that was the beer!
okay okay fifty thousand for one person okay okay how much time like two quid each
oh fine perfect at this point I am not in the mood of bartering it's quite
far as well so my back got caught on my um diabetes thing oh no oh no longer a robot
turn right. I'm the GPS
yes please Adriana yeah I'm not Adriana but I'm Adriana
oh yeah we have breakfast there don't we yeah yeah wow so nice
this is so cute we've got like a little seating area whoa look at the bed it's really nice all
right should we give you a quick tour it's way bigger than it looked like online got a
cupboard in the fridge this bed looks like a king-sized bed yeah looks pretty comfortable
it's not soft but it's it feels comfortable it looks pretty much comfortable you got a TV a desk
which I didn't know we were gonna get but maybe I could edit from sitting down there that'll be nice
yeah I think it's tomorrow morning breakfast is included on our doorstep oh my God so nice
here vibey music playing there's a few people staying here but you can hear a bit of music
there's a bit of a vibe in the area we obviously need to shower and rest and just relax in the
room and remember to smile yeah because you're inspiring people you don't even know bye bye wow