Laos - a short summary: Everybody we know loves Laos (pronounced without the s). So we went. Everybody we know loves Laos because they love Luang Prabang sooo much. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and therefore stunning, beautiful, extraordinary and well worth a trip there. So we went, stayed, walkeda lot in search of a guesthouse (walked through Luang Prabang twice) and then decided to leave after two nights and one day there. The first time we dared tell an...

After a VERY long journey (8h from Lijiang to Kunming, 29h from Kuning to Luang Prabang, 5h from Luang Prabang to here), we have arrived in Vang Vieng, Laos, tubing capital of the world. tub·ing /[too-bing, tyoo-]-noun Also called inner-tubing. the sport or recreation of floating down a river or stream on an inner tube. So there you have it. As can be expected, I am reluctant to sit on a chair for too long at the moment (please see first sentence of this bl...