After the self inflicted drama leaving Bangkok we had high hopes for Luang Prabang (which the locals seem to pronounce 'Long Prabarrng'). It is only a one hour or so flight to LP and as you travel over Laos it reveals some quite unusual geography - on our Flight Path the country seemed to consist of medium size mountains with many, many valleys and rivers. The rivers I saw may actually be only one or two as they twist and turn a great deal, following the topogra...

An interesting day, that's for sure. We left our Bangkok Hotel at 11:15 A.M, confident that we had plenty of time to check in our bags and catch the 2:00 pm flight to Luang Prabang. Once we arrived at the Airport and checked the Departures Board we realised that 2:00 P.M. was the arrival time in Laos, not the departure time from Thailand!! Much panic ensued as by the time we:- * Attempted to check in our bags (which we didn't really need for one night in Bang...