The supposed early-morning abseil did not happen and we only got up at 8am. We had breakfast, packed up and started making our way up to the waterfall; we left our bags at the bottom and rock climbed up the left hand side, ending up close to the top, but about 20 meters from the summit. Bees and a large number of other unidentifiable insects harassed us, while the guides set up the ropes. Kel demonstrated how to abseil down and made his way to the bottom in recor...

We checked out of our accommodation early and went in search of breakfast - rottees. We were at the tour company at 9am, the time we were told to be there - they were closed. Definitely the same clocks as Africans. They arrived a little later and one of the German girls realized she didn't have her phone on her and ran back to our accommodation to find it. Edd then realised that he'd left his bank card in the air con slot of our room, so I went back to fetch tha...

We got up at 7.45am, showered and got ready for the trip to Vang Vieng. We assembled downstairs and the took took picked us up promptly at 8.30am. We asked him to stop in the market so we could buy sandwiches for lunch (we weren't going to risk finding out what the 'free lunch' on a bus was like in Laos). I ordered a coffee (that they make with condensed milk, no one has cows milk in this country) - the girl made me the biggest coffee I've ever seen in my life. I...