It was relatively comfy, and we was quite tired so decided to rest our eyes for a bit, although this was going to be a very long journey the scenary yet again was proving to be very beautiful :)) we played some games on the ipad, ate some snacks etc etc until finally our hill tribe village was in sight!......
.......I was still no more excited about this, but was also very tired so just wanted to get in, get to sleep and get out! It was a round 6pm when we arrived, we were introduced to the village chief and after a steep walk up tot he village were shown to where we were going to be sleeping......we had only just found out that's the boys and girls would be separated as it was against village rules to let us share a room :( I was so upset staying with Luke was the only thing that was going to get me through the night, oh well there was nothing we could do about it now, the room I was to be staying in was......well...... See for yourself......
....I was just dreading it! Anyway we moved on, had a guided walk around the village where we were told there were 57 families living there and around 360 people in total, there was a newly built school, the girls only went to primary school and the boys went to both primary and secondary, there was a hut where the woman went to have there children, and in each house/ wooden hut one whole family lived and many family's had 7,8,9 children! It was a real eye opener, we went to the chiefs main place for dinner, they had cooked us either chicken or vegetable curry, rice and more vegetables, me and Luke had vegetable curry and it was very nice. We hung around for a bit with the group, a lot of the people from the village came up to see us, our tour leader said that when "tourists" come to do the hill tribe stay it's like they are seeing movie stars! And it did feel a bit like that! Every came to watch us eat and chat, a lot of the Kids came to see us and they were all super cute.....
.....we were just about ready to get to our "bed" and Luke spotted a huge spider !!!! It was massive and moved pretty quickly! The whole group was freaking out and we all moved our bags and watched it very closely until it went under Luke's bag and disappeared ! Me and Luke said our goodbyes for the night and separated :(. We got to our room.....the other girls decided to brave the toilet I did not,there was no electricity, no light and the toilet was not western! I was defo not going there! I just set up my bed, made sure my ear plugs were in for fear of bugs crawling in them and tried to sleep, I was so pleased we had a mozzie net! The time was going super slow and obviously I couldn't sleep! Even tho I was super tired about an hour ago! Always the way! Anyway the night went slow and when my alarm went off at 5am I was already awake :( I got up and went downstairs to meet the rest of the group and of course my lukee :))) I was so happy to see him :)
It was very dark and we made our steep descend back to the boat, climbed aboard and had a nap :) we were leaving early as we had to get to the Laos immigration before it shut at 6pm and then over to the thailand one for our visas before they shut!
The day went very slowly, we tried to entertain ourselves, the scenary was again stunning :) but by about 3pm we were getting so restless and just wanted to get to our next hotel ! By about 4.30 we were told we were close and what the plan was for when we get off, we would get off at Laos one side of the river and on the other side pretty close is thailand it was so odd! We docked in, got off and had to walk up a massive steep hill to the top, luckily one of the guides took my bag! We all got in a tuk tuk again! And made our way 5 minutes down the road to the "immigration office" which was a tiny box down by the river! I would hardly call it a immigration office! And between the hours of 4-6pm you had to pay the officers a doller for stamping you out of Laos! I am sure these people just make up the rules as they go along! Anyway we all got stamped out of Laos and then it was time to say goodbye to our Laos tour guide "tong"! He was lovely but he had to go back to start another tour, in Laos you have to have a local tour guide with you even if you are on a organised tour.
We boarded our next boat to cross the river and this one was tiny and we all just about fit on it with our bags! The couple of minute journey took us to thailand! And here we went to the thai immigration office again another tiny box just randomly position on the side of the road! Mea. H like already had visas so we just got our stamp and boarded the next vehicle to take us to our overnight hotel! We were just hoping that it was a nice hotel and that the bathroom was clean we desperately wanted a shower After all that travelling!
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