Chiang Mai

Laos is a communist country but the winds of change seem to be on the horizon. There are not any Western fast food restaurants dotting the streets, just local vendors. Laos is slowly making its way on the backpackers radar. Even then, the number of tourists are few.

During our trip, we filtered suspicious water. Apparently, the modification from filtered water to bottled water in Koh Tao and Bangkok, we stopped filtering and began buying regular bottled water, and that is where everything changed.