Out next stop was Nong Khiaw, a small little town surrounded by high peaks and divided by a chocolate covered river. Our first evening there we met Martha, a Welsh girl who joined us for dinner on Mama Alex's. The next morning the four of us headed on a tour with Tiger Trail your company to the "100" waterfalls. We took a boat upstream about an hour and then landed in the local village of Nam Ou. We hiked across paddys fields and fruit plantations, stopping every so often to attempt to remove all the leeches attempting to make their way up our legs and inside our socks. The river dropped at many different spots hense the name 100 Waterfalls, and the tour brought us straight up through the river to the main waterfall at the top. Just as we arrived mum realised she had a leeche stuck to her arse which gave for great entertainment as Siobhan pulled it off! We had a delicious lunch of fried rice and fruit with a huge banana leaf used as a table cloth on the bench we ate.

Then we began the descent. A separate path winds through the jungle into open fields so we weren’t sliding back through the waterfalls. Instead, we tottered down slopes of glistening mud while leeches slithered up our ankles and mosquitoes taunted us by landing any time we turned our attention to leech removal.On the boat back along the river we stopped at Pha Kuang cave, a massive cavern that they used as a hospital during the Indochina war. That evening Martha and I joined a few others from our tour for dinner in Deen for Indian followed by cocktails and card games in. Q Bar.

The next morning we hiked to the viewpoint overlooking the town, thankfully not attacked by leeches this time but the mud covered steps made for a slippery descent. We had a quick turn around as our next tour with Jungle Fly picked us up just as we got lunch. We munched it on the tractor come Tuc Tuc (see video) where we sat on a wooden board stuck out on the front. We ziplined through the jungle for the next few hours, over 100m above the ground on lines that were up to 450m long. Mum & Siobhan were petrified at the beginning but weren't long getting the swing of it. We had a long hike back out of the jungle through deep mud and I unlucky brushed off a poisonous plant which caused for agonising pain for the entire way back to the guesthouse until I got some got some local medicine to smear on my legs.