Edinburgh Girl

Before leaving on our trip, we booked a Bamba Bus tour from Bangkok through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and then back to Bangkok. This included all our transport for the countries listed and experiences in some of our stops along the way. For example our bicycle tour in Bangkok and our trek in Chiang Mai were through Bamba. We had already paid for Bamba before we left so this meant we didn't need to bring as much spending money on our trip. All we had to do is decide when we wanted to move on to the next place, email Bamba to book it for us then someone picks us up from our hotel, takes us to the bus station, buys our tickets and then shows us what bus to go on. Pretty easy for us! It's probably more expensive than if you did it by yourself but it's far easier doing it this way especially for first time travellers to South East Asia. We spend a lot of our time looking for our next accommodation so on top of that we would have to look into transport as well. We will ha

First impressions coming in to the city are its totally different to what I was expecting. A lot less busy than I thought but my only Thai city to compare it to is Bangkok and that is totally crazy! Although different to what I thought I am certainly not disappointed. The city has a cool laid back and chilled atmosphere about it and I couldn't wait to explore it! Like Sukhothai we were hassled again at the bus station by Tuk Tuk drivers, although they were offering us a ride to our hotel for 150 baht so we couldn't really complain. Our hotel, The Small Hotel, was so lovely! Although anything was an improvement from our previous accommodation! The hotel only cost us £15 a night which was such a bargain as the room was great. The first thing we did was have a shower to wash all the ants from Pinpao Guesthouse in Sukhothai off us! We also sorted our laundry as we were in desperate need of clean pants!! On our first night we went for a wander near our hotel looking for somew