I was talking to a friend of mine a couple days ago who happens to be going to a lot of the same places that we're thinking about going to, including Thailand! I was almost nervous to ask her at first if she thought it was worth it to go and if she felt unsafe at all.
Her exact words were: "OMG it's literally nothing to worry about what so ever, I've been here for two weeks, the curfew is off and I haven't seen a single protestor or military, it's all over I promise I've never felt safer! 100% doesn't affect tourists what so ever."
PHEW! I can tell you that I breathed a huge sigh of relief after reading that! As much as I wouldn't have minded going to Sri Lanka (or anywhere else that we decided to substitute) there are quite a few things that I am looking forward to doing in Thailand. So after telling Lauren what this friend said we decided that we actually are going to go to Thailand! Yay!
The same friend has also highly recommended we check out Pai in Northern Thailand. It's a couple hours northwest (I think?) of Chiang Mai and we've already planned on going there so we may take a swing up there before heading into Laos. She was saying that her and her friends were only planning on staying there for 2 days and as of when I'm writing this they have been there for 8! After doing some research on the town I have to agree that it sounds amazing so that has officially been added to our potential route list.
