Next morning and time for some more kayaking, we'd never done so many river activities before and was starting get a little tired of the Mekong so agreed that this would be the last one. After capsizing on our last outing in the kayak on route to Vientiane, we was told there will be a few mild rapids to look out for on this trip, so we thought we'd be kind I'd prepared having already gone over before. But nothing would have prepared us for what actually happened ...

We headed out of Vientiane and south, all the way down to the Laos/Cambodian border, but not over the border just yet. Next was a couple of nights the very chilled out and laid back 4000 Islands, where the Mekong breaks up into thousands of tiny little Islands, hence the name. Upon arriving we was shifted around a number boats before finally arriving at our island "Don Det". We'd made friends with another couple from Manchester, Shaun and alex, and we found Mr.B'...

We only had the one day in Vientiene because we wanted to get down to the south as soon as possible and heard there wasn't really much to do here anyway. So it was goodbye to Vang Vein and the start of the kayaking journey down river towards Vientiene, which is the capital Laos. It seemed like the river didn't have much of a current, so the first thing we said to the elderly australian couple that were kayaking with us was that we didn't want to capsize and get w...

We had booked up a rock climbing excursion the day before and also to get us to our next destination, Vientiane, the capital of Laos, a 3hr kayaking trip that takes you half way, then a bus for the rest of the way. So an activity packed next few days. We had a good day ahead of us... rock climbing till the afternoon.... then..... TUBING WHHHHOOOHH!!!! We got to the rock formation where we'd be climbing for a good few hours, I personally was so exited to try it ou...

The 6 hour bus trip down to Vang Veing was pretty much a blur, due to the condition I was in but whenever I did open my eyes, was again treated to some amazing views of mountain backdrops and jungle filled valleys which made the pot holed road journey a lot more bearable. We'd been recommended by a guy at the Vang Veing bus station about the Phonsavan bungalows in town which were relatively cheap and clean so we checked it out. And they were, so for 60,000kip a n...