Plain of Jars and Louang Probang After Vang Vieng and the tubing incident we headed off to Xieng Khuang, which is basically a transit town with nothing there. The only reason people would go there is to see 'The Plain of Jars'. Now, I had never heard about these before but basically it is the name given to a stretch of uplands where they have found these mysterious stone jar like thingys. The jars themselves are not particularly interesting (although they would ...

Midnight train to Laos. So....off we went to Laos. We got a night train from Bangkok which was interesting! Personally (the sky rail aside) i think it is the only way to travel. It was actually really fun, even if the staff did try and put us to bed at 9pm. It took in total about 12 hours but passed really quickly. We had bunk beds and being the lovely person I am I agreed Jen could take the bottom bunk as it was more comfortable. Hmmm big mistake. The top bunk...