We arrived in Luang Prabang from Vang Vieng and it was like a breath of fresh air, the town is so nice, lots of colonial French architecture, a river on both sides and loads of really nice restaurants and coffee shops. There are over 30 temples in Luang Prabang and we saw a grand total of zero, when we said a few blogs earlier we were templed out we weren't exaggerating, we're boycotting them everywhere we go. We rented bicycles for the day and just cruised aro...

We arrived in Vang Vieng at about 7pm, it was chucking it down and we didn't have a room booked. This is not one of our ideal scenario's, especially when a lot of the rooms we asked about were too expensive. Eventually we found somewhere, we checked in and it was only after we'd taken the room that we were told it might be noisy as the bar across the road was the only late night bar in the centre. How loud could it actually be? Let us tell you ..... it was like t...

The night bus from Champasak to Vientiane was the first time we'd been on a bus with bunk beds. We had a top bunk that we had to share and it was definitely designed with the Asian population in mind, it was absolutely tiny. Still, it was pretty good to be able to lie down properly rather than being in a semi reclining seat. On our second day here we hired bikes for the day and went to look around a few temples. It was whilst we were here that we decided we were...

After chilling out in Don Det for 5 nights it was time to move on so we headed to Champasak as there was a another ancient temple here that we wanted to see. The morning after we got there we hired a moped to go and see the ruins. It was only once I got on the back of the moped that I realised it was tiny. Usually I can't touch the floor properly but on this bike I could put both my feet flat on the floor. This meant that my knees were almost touching my chin o...

We should have known when our mini bus was 45 minutes late that the journey from Kratie to Laos would not be a good one. We have never seen 1) so many people crammed into one minibus (about 24) and 2) so much luggage strapped onto the back including a moped and a cage full of puppies! We were squashed onto the back seat, I had room for one foot and the other was on the wheel arch, Casson had a local guy practically asleep on his shoulder drooling and there was a...