Hello! I don't know why i've started writing this because I have no time left but i'll try and speed-type. Si Phan Don is at the very southern tip of Laos, where the Mekong River splits into hundreds of tiny islands. I have no idea why this happens, but its incredibly gorgeous anyway. So, we set off from Vientiane by bus overnight to get to Pakse, which I slept like a baby and Colin didnt sleep at all. We thought we might stay in Pakse for a day, but took on...

Hi all! Hope all is well with everyone. I think this will be a rather quick entry (horray! I left Colin to do the lengthy one..) as we arrived here yesterday and are leaving in about an hour.. We weren't going to bother coming to Vientiane (the capital of Laos) because it sounded a bit boring and ugly, however it was on our route south and we needed somewhere to sleep so we thought we might as well stop here, and I'm so glad we did! It's really lovely a...

Luang Prabang might not look too far from Chiang Mai on a map, but the journey is pretty exhausting. We travelled for a day to the Thai side of the border at Chiang Khong, before crossing over to Huay Xia. There wasn't much to do here except get munched, pretend you speak French, and sleep. The border is conveniently marked by the River Mekong, and makes for a nice 5 minute ferry crossing. It's also quite a funny border - you can't help but feel it's the equ...