We woke up for the last time in the Guesthouse slightly hungover from the night before and went for an all day breakfast. At 1pm, our bus picked us up to take us to Vientiane for our 8pm flight to Hanoi. As I got on the bus, I spotted Adam from the night before which was slightly awkward after my refusal! I slept most of the way on the bus next to Sam who started panicking that we were getting to Vientiane late and that we might miss our 8pm flight. Little did ...

We woke up to get ready for tubing to find it was monsoon weather yet again but thought it wouldn't matter as we were getting wet anyway. We located some dry bags from the shop opposite to protect our money and spare clothes in and then made our merry way to the tubing station with Henry, Sam and the 2 Essex lads. When we had just paid for our tubes, a couple appeared and said that they had been yesterday and it was crap. We thought, oh cheers guys, way to spoi...

We slept relatively well in our precarious bunks and got up early to get to the waterfall. We are so so glad we made the effort to go as it was stunning and aquamarine blue. We decided to make a sweaty 30 minute climb to the top, which would have scary had it been raining and it was super muddy. We got to the top and found what looked like really small shallow pools filled with marsh like plants and mangrove trees that we could imagine filled with snakes, but on ...

We woke up in the guest house and I enjoyed a Nutella baguette for breakfast. After putting our rucksacks on an ants nest, we were finally back on the truck to return to the slow boat. It was a far more relaxing journey as we left on time, had seats and were able to read at leisure. We played a game of Pit and Irish Snap, had a beer and before we knew it, we arrived in Luang Prabang. As thought, they dropped us off at a dodgy port and we were forced to pay a lar...

This morning we woke up inside our fancy mosquito nets and had a quick rinse before leaving the hostel in Chiang Khong at 8:30. After what seemed like a million border controls and 3 different modes of transport, we finally arrived into Laos. I thought it was getting hectic by this point, but little did we know the best drama was yet to come... Our first stop was to the office of the company running the boat trip. Here we were introduced to a very smily local, w...