Woke up in a power cut! Great! Thought some mad knife man was going to kill us! Went for breakfast then back to sleep until the cleaner woke us up at half 11 as we needed to check out! Rammed all my belongings in my rucksack making sure a had taken all my valuables out as we are getting on a sleeper bus tonight. Checked out at 12! Our transfer picks us up at 5 so we had 5 hours to kill. There isn't anything to do here so not having a room makes it even worse!...

What's new! Got up to have breakfast at 9! Again we have nothing planned for today, just waiting around to go to Vietnam tomorrow! I really did want to visit Luang Prabang in the north of Laos but we don't have time and Michael wants to just leave Laos! Had lunch at Dao Fa on the main street! An actual restaurant! Which was weird! Went to get money out and accidentally types in 200,000 instead of 2,000,000! Great! You get charged the same for all transactio...

So! Got up, ate and went to the travel agents to ask about a Vietnamese visa as we have officially given up on getting to china! Who wants to see a wall anyway! Apparently all we need for a visa to Vietnam is our passports and a photo! No messing about with transport in, out and all the accommodation! We have wasted a week in Vientiane tying to get to China! China has annoyed me so I will never grace them with my presence! Apparently the people are all rude an...

Got up at 9 to have breakfast, they still put meat in my meal even though I order the same every single day and it's a meat free meal, the staff are ridiculous here! Got a tuktuk at 11 to the Chinese embassy, having searched for hours and found accommodation and transport in and out of China. This still wasn't good enough, we needed originals and 2 copies of all tickets and reservations! This is the fourth day we had been to the embassy! I am not happy! They cl...

I could really just copy and paste these blogs for every day! Wake up, try and get a visa, eat and then sleep! Urghhh what a waste of my time! Got up at 9 like every day as breakfast is time limited and that's the time the wifi gets turned on! Got a tuktuk to the embassy at 10, collected the forms but all the other visas we have got we didn't need pictures but we had to have 2, we also had to have transport in and out of China and all accommodation booked! Wh...