The Dangers of Vang Vieng Even with it's magnificent karst landscape remeniscent of a gigantic Halong Bay on land, its hidden lagoons, caves and river views like that of crouching tiger hidden dragon; Vang Viengs attention goes to the backpackers and holiday makers activity of choice... Tubing. This involves hiring out the inner tube of a tractor tyre, getting a tuk tuk up stream a few KM's and using your tyre to float down stream, stopping along several bars o...

Cooking School on Christmas Day :) Christmas had at last arrived in south-east Asia and the morning began with present exchanges. We had made several visits to the Luang Prabang night market and on two occassions had gone our separate ways to buy one another gifts. We lay in bed wearing our santa hats to emphasize the fact that xmas does come to Buddhist Laos. Fay received a small key ring like tribal doll, Lao green tea in small designed pouches, a pair of slip...

Landlocked Laos A new country to explore and one that we had heard lots about. Getting our visa was not a hassle and as we waved goodbye to our previous home country that had hosted us for a month, we embraced the beauty and simplicity of Laos. After departing with our visas we began our rickety bus journey through the windy clay made road, we realised two things... First how amazing the views were, lush green mountains with clouds teddy bear rolling off them, ...

Land of the terraced rice fields Sapa! Fresh, green and where christmas for me and Daniel started. We arrived to a misty, foggy day, we could not see where we were. That's because we were nestled inside a cloud! A tad disorientated we found a hotel with a top floor 'view' of white cloud instead of the Sapa Valley. There is one main strip of hill which harbours all the shops and cafe's. Even some restaurants with log fires! On our local town orientation wonder w...

The Mystical Islands of Halong Bay Slowly cruising along the calm south china sea we were heading to Cat Ba Island, a large island withing Halong Bay. Getting there was like navigating through a sea of icebergs as we could see thousands of limestone formation tearing up through the emerald waters. Many of these majestic formations held secret (and not so secret) grottoes and caves for eager visitors to explore. The air had a mist to it as a blanket of dull low ...