Happy New Year!

Some foxy thai ladies. Courtesy of travelvideo.tv

As to where I am and what I’ll be doing in the next few weeks, here is a short synopsis of my plans. In two days time I’ll be in Chiang Mai participating in Songkran activities, which according to my cousin is extremely fun and is the best city be in for the celebration. Understandably so, since Chiang Mai is considered one of the most culturally significant cities in Thailand. Supposedly everyone heads there. Even the residents of Bangkok. For most of you who are as familiar with it as I am, Sonkran is the largest and most elaborate holiday for the Thais since it is in honor of the Thai New Year. It involves 4 days of dousing strangers with water during the day and then continuing the play into the evening with drinking and partying on the streets. Being about as Thai as apple pie, it’s a sad thing for me to admit that it's about all I can say on it and will have to give you the low down once I actually experience it for myself. All the more reason right?

A few days after that I’ll depart for Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) crossing the Cambodian border at Poi Pet (read what some are saying about that) and then into Phenom Penh. Once there it’s onward to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where I’ll take a train along the coast up to Hanoi. From there I’ll most likely fly into Luang Prabang, Laos, bussing it down through Veng Vieng arriving in Ventienne as my final Laotian destination. And if I come out of that alive, I'll conclude it with a ride to Bangkok via bus. By then I’ll be ready for the pristine beaches of Southern Thailand, downing buckets of redbull/vodka with the rest of the douchie farongs on Koh Phangan. Ooooh yea. What a sweet mekong adventure this’ll be. Wish me luck!

This is an itinerary that I wish I had the time to do but alas it's only going to be northern Laos, Cambodia, and the coast of Vietnam.