We got up early this morning as we had to be at the bus ticket office for our pick up at 9.30am. We had arranged to meet Sam and Steph for breakfast at 8.00am by meeting them at their place. We knocked on their door, it took a while for them to open it. Once opened they realised what had happened, they'd slept in they were panicking. We said we'd go for breakfast and wait for them there. Only 15 minutes later they turned up all packed and ready to go, very impres...

We woke up to rain again this morning, it wasn't coming down too hard so met Sam and Steph anyway. We got breakfast and stayed in there until it had passed and the sun had come out. We walked to rent our tubes because we were definitely doing it today! We had to fill out forms which pretty much says its not their fault if you die. In the past this was the place to be in Laos, there were bars and pubs lining the river and people would climb out of it to the bar th...

It's now been six months to the day since we set off on our trip, I can't believe it's been that long! We got up this morning and it was raining, we went to the restaurant at the front of our guesthouse to connect to the wifi to see if Sam and Steph would prefer to meet later instead. When we checked the messages they had said they'd been up all night being sick and hasn't slept so they wouldn't be going tubing today. We said we'd all go tomorrow instead togethe...

Late up again today, we met Sam and Steph to get something to eat around midday. We decided that we'd have a walk and check out the tubing for prices and see where you set off and come back in. We had a walk down to a bridge past the tubing office, it all looks pretty easy to organise. We walked over the bridge and had a look around and a bit of an explore before coming back across and finding somewhere to chill for a bit. In Vang Vieng there are loads of cars wh...