Thursday, February 09, 2006
Last Day of tour 31st January
Another early start. Breakfast at 6am leaving at 6.30am. We waved goodbye to John and Lorna and set off on our long bus ride to Bangkok. The first half of the journey to the Thai boarder was mainly on a dirt road that was full of holes. Very bumpy and tiring. Many of the bridges over small rivers were one way and very dodgy. We saw many landmine signs and passed a group of people clearing mines. Marcus told us that the government is planning on laying a bitumen road in the next 12 months!
We crossed the boarder with no problems and had lunch in a dirty open cafe. Jumped into 2 mini buses for the remaining journey in airconditioned comfort on nice smooth sealed roads.
Back at the Viengtai for 1 night to end our tour.
Had dinner at the end of the road. Rand didn't join us but we said goodbye to Paul then the rest of us went to the street bar across the road from the Hotel. Next we headed off to an underground bar where we played pool, some chess and emailed Chris on the free internet. Said goodbye to everyone else and went back to the hotel for a good nights sleep.
