Some Laos Delicacies... The following are all seriously things we have spotted on various menus in Laos: *Scolette Pancake *Spaquetti *Sand with cheese/tuna/chicken *Needle salad (ouch) *Makaloni *Rice with chicken, buffolo....or beep (although this one does possibly explain why in Vientiene a young girl asked Jen if she wanted to go beep beep with her. We thought it was some kind of sexual innuendo but clearly the girl just wanted Jen to go and have shar...

The best boat trip ever and a very dull Huay Xai The day following our truely amazing bus ride we were due for another LONG day of travelling, which was, as I'm sure you can imagine, just what we were all dreaming of. We left Pak Beng early in the morning and boarded a boat which was to be our home for the next 10 hours. But this wasnt just any boat! oh no..this was a boat of huge proportions which you could actually stand up on...and....gasp!....walk around on....

Village homestay and a magical bus ride. We left Louang Phabang early in the morning and got on a boat, well three boats actually. Walking the plank to get to the little longtail boat was rather terrifying and predictably I freaked out and burst out crying. In front of 20 people...it was a little embarrassing. The boat ride wasnt great for me in general actually. It was chucking it down and it was really cold and I have brought nothing warm apart from a yellow c...

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...