(3 November) Another boat day! We left at 6:30 to get back on the boat. It was much of the same, finished the book, chatted, played cards which was fun - we remembered how to play s***head which is awesome! If anyone's got a good card came feel free to email/fb me the rules because I seem to have just drawn a blank with all the games I know (siblings, how do you play presidents?! lol). We got off the boat and crossed the border around half 3, then got on really...

(27 October) The next morning we set off early for the long journey across the border. We had a new girl in the group, an Australian called Maria. There was an American girl who was meant to come with us but was sick and never ended up joining us. It was weird only having 9 people, although nice having loads of room on the bus!! Haha. The bus journey wasn't too bad, just long. I watched Never Let Me Go, which is a film which was ok but a bit weird! We got to Lac...

(2 November) Today we were up at half 6 and got a tuk tuk down to get on a boat up the Mekong river. We had a local guide for this part, who was, quite frankly, completely mad! We were all pretty tired, and would have been happy to sleep for a bit on the boat, but this guy had other ideas! The boat itself was pretty cool, it was a long family boat, loads of space for us all and definitely the most comfortable way to travel I've had so far...although I'm sure if...

(1 November) This morning we went to see a waterfall and bear sanctuary which was really cool! The waterfall was actually gorgeous! You could swim in it but it was freezing and was still quite cool as we went in the morning so I settled for a paddle haha. I tried a deep fried banana which was interesting... Not sure if I would repeat it though! Afterwards we went on a mission to the post office...I was so confused haha but posted a lot of presents home eventu...

(31 October) This was a bit of a horrible travelling day. I wasn't hungover from tubing because i'd had so much sleep...thank god, because we were on seriously windy and bumpy roads up and down mountains for about 7 or 8 hours! Felt really unwell by the time we got to Louangphrabang. It was really cool though! When we arrived in, Claire Fiona and I went for a walk and had a look around, and saw a bit of the Market which was awesome!! loads of gorgeous things......