5-7 November 06 Vientiane   Hello everyone,   Sunday 5th Nov we arrived in the sleepiest capital city on earth- Vientiane. Luckily for us the biggest Laos festival of the year was taking place. The main symbol of Laos is Pha That Luang (see pics) which is the equivelent of the eiffful tower in Paris, the statue of liberty in New York and the radio city tower in Liverpool. Unfortunately in the night time it was all lite up with fire works ...

31-5 November 06 Hello everyone,after our six hour white knuckle bus ride we finally ended up in Vang Vieng. Before we tell you about Vang Vieng we have a little story about the journey there. It all started when we noticed the bus steward carrying an AK47 riffel. James leaned over to ask the scottish man in frount was it normal for people to carry guns on Laos buses (no kids egg the driver on this bus!). The scottish man replyed that on this route between L...

28-31 October 06 Luang PrabangHello everyone,so after our eight hour mini bus ride from Pai, which should have only took six hours, we ended up in a grotty little place called Chiang kong. Our bus driver dropped us off at a guest house two hours late, for the owner's to try and mug us, blaintainly overcharging us for our visa's over the border to Huay Xai. We were wondering why the little s**t kept stopping every forty miniutes for a rest. So we left...