Good Morning All, We are currently in Vientiene killing time before we get a 24 hour bus to Hanoi in Vietnam, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to tell you about our time in Laos. So after a 2 day slow boat we eventually reached our destination in Luang Prabang, a name I still forget and miss pronounce and call anything apart from it's correct name. Our first job was to find our hostel, which we had previously booked in Chaing Khong. Haloas Backpack...

So the next day we headed down to the dock early on the back of a pick up truck, about 10 of us all with massive ruck sacks, and Earl with his suitcase, it was quite a 15 minute drive. We crossed the border and got our visa sorted and then go took by tuk tuk to the slow boat dock, this is where we met a dutch guy called Nick who was also on our bus to Chaing Khong and two German girls called Isa and Helena. We spent the next six hours on a boat travelling to Pa...