Vang Vieng This was a little town in the North of Laos, with the main atraction being Tubing. This involved getting a rubber ring and starting at the top of the river and floating down whilst being pulled into bars on the way down by a rope. The mission was to have a drink in all the bars whilst trying not to drown! (a bit like Otley run but in a river on tube) It was crazy dangerous but a lot of fun. By the time we got to the first bar everyone was well on thei...

Vientiane Thirty two hours bus journey, bored to death but constantly enjoying the scenery whilst Ari sleeping away we finally arrived in Laos. Everything seemed to be at slower pace here. People are immune to inconvenience and aggression of any sort. In fact there is rarely a voice raised in anger. In a world of such little structure and seemingly with so few rules, things somehow just work. If we ever tried to live this way in the West the rivers would run wi...