Vang Vieng is the ultimate chillout and/or adventure town in Laos. We arrived after a four hour journey through the mountains to be greeted by a town full of guesthouses, bars and restaurants and limestone cliffs as a backdrop. All the restaurants have raised platforms with cushions to chillout on and all show episodes of friends all day so we spent our first afternoon doing exactly that as there's not much more to do! The next day we signed up for 'tubing' whi...

So, time to update about our 24 hour bus journey from Hanoi to hell! We set off from our guesthouse at 5.30pm in a taxi to the 'bus station' which turned out to be one bus down a side street next to a dodgy travel agency. After taking one look at the bus we knew we had been conned out of $25 for a luxury bus as this was anything but luxury! We sheepishly boarded knowing we would have to spend the next 24 hours stuck in it and managed to get ourselves some front r...

Hey all, Arrived in Vientiane in Laos last night and thought it would be about time to update about our last few days in Vietnam. We took a 12 hour sleeper bus from Hue to Hanoi which at the time I thought was the worst bus journey of my life, but it turns out I was horribly wrong after our journey from Hanoi to Laos...more to come on that in my next blog! The sleeper bus however doesnt have real beds but seats that don't quite lay flat so you wake up (if you m...

After leaving Hoi An, we arrived in Hue a few hours later, a small city further up the coast of Vietnam. We managed to find a cheap place in the backpacker area to stay and dumped our bags for heading out for something to eat. We knew that we only had a few days here and wanted to make the most of it so we booked a motorbike tour with a recommendation from Ben and Lucy who did the same one about a month before us. However, this left us with one day and a decision...

Hey, Well we arrived in Hoi An on the Vietnamese coast late on Friday evening after making an executive decision to take an internal flight and miss out some beach resorts along the way. We have stayed here a few more nights than planned, mainly due to a trip to the hospital but will explain in a min. So we got our travel agent in Saigon to organise our accomodation here for the friday evening and he said it would only be $22 for the 3 of us. We turned up and w...