After a week in Luang Prabang it's time to move on. Not least because our room has become a get together place for cockroaches and giant ants. Ben has been a hero taking them on! Today we took a slow boat up the Mekong river to visit the Buddha cave. We stopped on the way at 'Whisky village' where they make whisky believe it or not from fermented sticky rice. You could try a shot but it was about 9.30am so I passed. The Buddha cave is actually 2 caves, full of ...

Luang Prabang is beautiful. We have been staying in a lovely wood panelled cabin that looks like a ship. We are upstairs as well so we have large wooden chairs outside our room on a communal balcony where we can sit out in the day or night. There is also free water and green tea. The tea keeps Ben happy. Our journey here wasn't the most fun. It took around over 8 hours and there had been a few landslides on the roads that wind round the edge of the mountains. Th...