We have been in Vientiane for the last few days; the capital city of Loas. It is not overly crowded or busy for a capital and there is not too much to do. We have been to a few temples one of which was the oldest is the city built in 1818 but there are only so many temples you can see. The main attraction here is a place called the COPE centre; a museum/organisation set up to help people who have been affected by the American 'cluster' bombings and still are bein...

Yesterday we went tubing; an experience in which you can't come to Laos without doing and it was amazing! Even though it has changed and bars have been shut down it was still crazy. There are 4 bars down the river which we're all packed full. At the first one we played drinking games with everyone endorse getting in our ring down to the next one and the next one. We stopped for about an hour at each one and then longer at the last oene! It was deffinatly one of t...

We are now in Vang Vieng after what wasn't the best journey as there was a load of fog over the mountains so what was supposed to be 4-5 hours actually took 7-8 hours! Ohwell as predicted I did sleep a lot of it and then slept all night after we eventually found a nice well decent guesthouse. Today was a write off as it rained all day and night so we had a movie day in the TV room in the hostel with a lot of other people who we're staying here, it was kind of fun...

We are setting off to the next city in Loas today; Vang Veing. Famous for it's tubing. We are going in a minivan which is supposed to take 4-5 hours however the journey is over mountains and there are loads of windy roads and steep drops either side of the road which makes me nervous, ohwell there is not really another way so i'm just going to have to try and sleep the whole journey; which isn't too bad as i'm already so worn out from the past few days which have...

This morning we got up and rented some bikes for the day- yes mum I actually rode a bike! They are about £1.50 to rent for the whole day so it's a good way to see the city and the cheapest by far. We had heard of a bakery that's famous in luang Probang for it's amazing croissants and French breakfast so we set off trying to find it. Eventually we did and by that time I was starving and nearly dying from the 35 degree heat and the cycling put ogether. But the br...