We reached the border eventually after a long old bus journey through the night zigzagging through the mountains. People were throwing up and everything, we wondered what the plastic bags handed out at the beginning were for! They crushed all the locals down the middle of the coach on plastic chairs, it must have been a nightmare for them as they couldn't sleep (apart from the lady who slept with her head on my lap!) and they were being thrown around all over t...

We had some bad news in Luang Prabang. We wanted to go to a place called Gibbon X, which is in Laos but on the border with Thailand. It's based in a forest & you live in treehouses for 2 days & zip wire across the jungle to the next treehouse & live amongst the trees with the monkeys! It sounded really cool but we tried to book up too late & it was fully booked so we are going into Thailand a couple of days early now. We got up at 6am this morn...

Vang Vieng is a very chilled out place. We met two guys from Holland on the bus there, Jack & Alexander, who we went to dinner with that night & arranged to go tubing with the next day. We didn't get up early & didn't get to the river until about 1pm so it got a bit chilly after a while & we only went about 2-3km down the river. It was cool tho whilst the sun was out. You float down the river on the inside tube of a tyre & in places there ...

We had a nice surprise up on our journey to Vientiene. We were supposed to have two bus journeys, one from Dondet to Pakse & another leaving 6 hours later from Pakse to Vientiene, however when we got to Pakse they said there was a mini bus leaving straight away & the mini bus to us seemed like a limonsine! There were only 3 other people on it & it was more like a people carrier, you could put the seats back & we all had two seats to ourselves. T...

After another dodgy landing on the worlds smallest plane we landed in Laos. From the airport we took a TukTuk to the "Bus Station", we got there, a few stalls selling snacks & drinks, some trucks, but no buses! Our TukTuk driver pointed to one of the pickup trucks that were filled with cement, food, crates of beer & said that was our bus down to the islands! It had two planks of wood either side to sit on, the journey took us about 5 hours as ...