Off we headed to be reunited with our passports (see Luang Prabang). Imagine our joy when we were told that they had not been received till Saturday, and that the Cambodian embassy woudl not be open till Wednesday to process our applications! We head off to the 'Four Thousand Islands' tonight much further south, so some passport pick up logistics have been arranged (fingers crossed) and we should be in possession of them by Thursday morning. We spent t...

We checked out of our VV hotel and took our bags into town. We were headinbg for the capital Vientiane but the idea was that we would still make it an activity based day by kayaking part of the way. So the van was loaded up with lots of big backpacks and off we drove. Almost 2 hours later it was time to start the kayaking (our 3rd time out in Laos, A-M still firmly in the 'steering seat' at the rear. The start of the dry season seems to have taken the sti...