Today I went on a half day trip up to a place called My Son (Me San) Apparently it is similar to Ankor Wat in Cambodia but on a much smaller scale, its got bomed a lot in the war so there isnt a lot left of it which is a shame as im sure that it was very beautiful in its day - i dont know whether it was just me though being a bad tourist but i got bored of looking at old bits of rock after about an hour...there is only so much i can take! so i have no idea what i...

OK so my trip to Vietnam...here we go! I caught a bus from Vientiane to Savannekhet in Laos at 5.15am on Friday morning, which meant getting up and 4 and walking the streets to find a tuk tuk, i found one which was great, the driver was lovely and he even stopped at the ATM for me to get some cash out. My bus journey was pretty good and I arrived at about 1.30 ish, I knew that from here i could catch a bus to take me from here to the boarder crossing at Lao Bao...