Warning! This blog entry will be a long one as we have spent 11 nights in Luang Prabang So we left Vang Vieng and headed on towards Luang Prabang (7 hours in the minivan but only about 150km distance!) After having tried to reserve 2 places on the VIP bus, we were put into a minivan(!) and succumbed to the fact that we were never going to be able to contest this with the driver due to our inability to speak the language, the fact that it was raining and that th...

So here we are again updating you on our travels.... Since we left you last time we have travelled further up north to the capital of Laos-Vientiane or Vien Chang as the locals call it- something to do with the French not being able to pronounce it and giving it a new name (of course this was a long time ago!) We took the night bus to Vientiane from Pakse which was called a sleeper bed bus (or something like this) and it meant that we had a double bed on the bus...

Saibedee from Laos! Since our first blog entry in Bangkok 4 days ago the heat has not subsided. We are now 1 week into our trip and i am sitting here writing this blog with severe sunburn on both my legs (story to come). So from Bangkok we took the night sleeper train to Ubon Racthathani (Thailand) and crossed over the border into Laos via bus- what a nightmare! As we exited Thailand we had to fill out the paperwork in our passports at the customs desk in orde...

After having arrived at Heathrow Airport at 18:00 (on the dot- thank you Cristina!) on the 01st September we had the shock of our lives as we were upgraded (thank you Naj!) for our 11 hour flight to Bangkok. After having watched numerous movies on 'on demand' TV we arrived in Bangkok to the extremely sweltering heat which hit us as soon as we got off the plane. 35 degrees and of course, humid! The life style here is mad- cars, taxis, tuk-tuks, bikes, heat and ma...