My camera (along with all the photos from the entire trip), the trusty ipod and quite a lot of our money has been stolen by a guesthouse owner here so we are going to stop writing the blog (it was a lot of hasstle anyway): we will tell everyone about the last part of our trip on our return to the UK.

a dastardly deed like this warrants a vendetta-mission back to laos sometime in the future.

Vang Vieng however is amazing. we could've easily spent weeks here without getting bored.