And so high tailing it out of Vang Vieng we cruise on into Luang Prabang looking for a restful few days. It didn't look promising as we arrived at our guesthouse which we'd been lucky to get considering the New Year and the 'no vacancies' signs everywhere. Outside the guesthouse was a major New Years party in full swing, and when I say outside the guesthouse, I mean, outside of our room. Right outside. Having said that, it was only 6pm and most of them looked lik...

Next stop was Vang Vieng, a backpackery, touristy place which supposedly you either love or hate and we fell more in to the latter unfortunately. Again it was New Year so again you can't move anywhere for getting wet which isn't great when you get off the coach and immediately some drunken or drugged up joker from Milton Keynes or somewhere runs up and pours water over you and your backpack. Not a good start and it didn't really improve mainly because of the West...

Another day, another country, this time it's Laos. Splashing the cash we amended our travel plans slightly and paid for a flight to get us from Cambodia to Laos so as to avoid some nightmare bus journeys. Have to say that it didn't look the best idea when we walked across the tarmac to the plane. Never flown in a plane with propellers before! When we took off the noise was incredible, it sounded like a WW2 bomber, close your eyes and we could easily have been of...