Onto Laos

I spent a week driving around awesome motorbike roads of North West Thailand, fantastic surface, cambered corners and big hills with 1263 corners spread over about 1000kms. It was hot, really bad pollution and fewer tourists on the north east circuit.

Which brought me onto the main tourist loop for backpackers and kids on gap year - North from Bangkok to the Laos border at Huay Xai then down to Luang Prabang, onto the capital, Vientiane. Then down to a Thousand Islands on the Cambodian border, Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Ankor Wat then back to Bangkok. It was so different from the Middle East and India but also great to meet other travellers.