We are now in Vientiane which is Laos capital city. We left yesterday morning from Vang Vieng at 10.30am and caught a bus straight here, it took about 4 hours i think so not too bad! we were quite lucky with our guest house as we found one very quickly and are only paying 30,000 kip per night (about 2 pounds). The room is very basic though , 3 single beds, a light , a window, a fan and a table so its more than suitable. Today we rented some bikes and went for a...

On Saturday we went for a walk through a village, looked at the Elephant Cave (which had no elephants in it Sadly!) and then went to do some cave tubing - this is where you sit in a giant rubber ring and float through caves with a headlight on using a rope to pull you along! it was good fun if not a bit eerie! we stopped for a little bit, got out of our tubes and went for a walk through the caves, obviously when i say walk i actually mean crawl as most of it was ...

Yesterday we left Louang Phabang at 6.45am on alocalbus heading to a place called Phou Khoun, the journey took about 3 hours and oh my god...it was bad! We were driving through the mountains and although it was beautiful, the roads could not have been more windy if they tried, the amount of hair pin bends were unreal and oh i felt so sick - it was so bad that the bus had to stop several times so people could get off to be sick - i was ok though i refused to let m...

The journey to Loas was long and tiresome, first we took a mini bus from Chiang Mai in Thailand to Chiang Kong in Thailand which took 5.5 hours, when we got there it was freezing all throughout the night so come the morning i had developed a cold! the next morning we went to the boarder crossing and took a speed boat across to Houayxai in Laos, but then got on a slow boat to Pakbeng which took 7 hours! it was so cramped and we were sitting on what i an only descr...

The journey to Loas was long and tiresome, first we took a mini bus from Chiang Mai in Thailand to Chiang Kong in Thailand which took 5.5 hours, when we got there it was freezing all throughout the night so come the morning i had developed a cold! the next morning we went to the boarder crossing and took a speed boat across to Houayxai in Laos, but then got on a slow boat to Pakbeng which took 7 hours! it was so cramped and we were sitting on what i an only descr...