We left hotel in our Luang Prabang early and headed for the river to get on our boat which would take us down the Mekong, to the Thai border over the next couple of days. As our group was now so small we had so much room on the boat so were able to spread out. The scenery was lovely and I ended up sitting on the boat, taking it all in and watching the world go by, including spotting both brown and pink water buffalo along the side of the Mekong and a group of mon...

We left Vang Vieng at 8am, after saying goodbye to Linn, Kate and Jake we drove for 6 1/2 hours to Luang Prabang, only stopping a couple of times so we could stretch our legs and get some food. The scenery along the drive was lovely, although the roads were really bendy and we spent most of our time going up or down the sides of mountains, with massive drops and not that many barriers. It was fine until you had huge lorries coming the other way and at times you w...

We left Vientiane and began the 4 hour bus journey to Vang Vieng along the bumpiest roads I have ever been on. The scenery was amazing though and when we checked into our hotel, we also had an amazing view from our balcony, that you could stare at for hours!! We decided to go and explore but as it was so hot we all ended up in the Aussie bar and had a couple of lovely cold Beer Laos. In the evening we went to a restaurant near our hotel, not long after sitting d...

It was another early start to make sure we were at the airport in time to fly from Hanoi to Vientiane and start our journey through Laos. After a 15 minute journey we arrived at our hotel in the Capital city (which is the smallest and quietist capital city I have ever seen). We headed to a lovely bakery and ordered sandwiches, I had been craving cheese as you dont see much, and if you do it is expensive, and I was finally able to have cheese in my sandwich!! A...

After a lovely breakfast at the hotel we headed back to Hanoi by bus, on route there was a massive thunderstorm and loads of the side roads were flooded, which made for an interesting drive. We arrived in Hanoi at lunchtime, checked into our hotel in the Old Quarter and headed out for lunch. We got food from a small kitchen on the street, where we sat on small plastic chairs with a plastic table and ate a local dish - Bun Cha, which is pork in a watery sauce and...