At the moment I'm on Don Det, an island in Si Phan Don that is probably the most relaxed place in the world. This is probably a good thing considering how tired we all are (the only thing we've really done here is become experts at our new preferred activity - Lying), but it is a bit frustrating when you have to wait nearly hald an hour then walk over and wake the waitress up to order your food. Before coming here we had a pretty full on week. We spent alot of...

Sabaidi (this is the only Laos I know except possibly for 'thankyou' which I think is khop chai, so I'm practicing it whenever possible). Everyday is so full of newness, exhaustion and hilarity whic someone somewhere I read compared to being like a child again, but it does make it very difficult to keep both travel diaries and blogs even remotely up to date. It's impossible to capture how much is going on and even photos don't give the beautiful landscape justic...