Arrival, check, Accomodation, check, heck loads of whiskey buckets and cheap booze, oh my goodness gracious yes, not to mention snorkle bombs! This was our first 4 hours of Vang Vieng and to tell you the truth it can only get better! Q Bar was destination one for dinner, entertained by Jeremy one of the canadian staff working for the bar and a little later on 2 dread headed dudes carrying a new beer bong contraption, they called the snorkle bomb - see the pictur...

Sooo the bloomin sleeping pills were a hazzard on this trip, oh boy where do we begin. So we left Vientiane at about 8pm headed for Luang Prabang - only 463km away but as per Asian times it would take 12 hours to get there. We got into our seats and everyone was settled seats all full and then another 20 people climbed aboard and they pulled out plastic stools and placed them in the isle. On top of the roof of the bus we had everything from double beds to toilet ...

So on the sleeper a 10pm stop for food (if you can all it that we were just glad that it didn't mess with our bowels) a dodgy fried rice and some average looking noodles, purchased some sweet bread rolls to eat later with cheese and climbed back onto the bus and sunk some valium sleeping pills, these helped us see our way through in pretty good sleeping form until the Vietnam/Laos borders. Shuttled off the bus with little direction in a mist of fog we were bare...