Wednesday morning we woke up at 5:30 to get up and see the monks walk down the street. But the rain was chucking it down so Rachel decided to stay in bed. I through some clothes on and headed down, got to the front door of our guest house and it was locked….. guess that was a sign that I should go back to bed for a bit. So we got up a little bit later, grabbed breakfast and headed to our 2-day slow boat.We walked to the travel shop where we'd bought the tickets...

Today we woke up excited as it was the day of our Mahout elephant experience. We ran out for breakfast next door to our guesthouse so that we could see if our pickup arrived. Just as we'd ordered a van pulled up. We watched for a while and then it drove round the corner…we thought we were going to miss our tour. I went running round and it was our guide, he was early. He said he'd come back for us. We finished our breakfast quickly and then found the van again ...

This morning we woke and went to a nice little café outside our resort for some breakfast. We then headed back to get on a tuk tuk to the bus station on our luxury Mini bus that we'd booked to take us to Luang Prebang. We shared the tuk tuk with 2 others, thinking we we're going to have a whole mini bus between 4 of us. It turned out more people were at the station and it was completely full, and no aircon - hardly luxury we paid an extra 10,000 for this. Oh wel...

We woke up this morning luckily in time for the tour but maybe not much time for breakfast. Plus also we had a power cut so the shower was freezing. So we headed out to where the tour started and quickly grabbed a cheese sandwich and a pancake from a nearby stall. We ate our food as we waited for the tour to start. A tuk tuk arrived and we hopped on along with another couple from Israel. It was just the 4 of us doing the tour.The driver took us through some beaut...

We got up on 17th September from our guest house in Vientaine, quickly got ready and headed down to settle our bill (£12 each for 2 night accommodation, laundry and bus tickets to Vang Vieng not bad). We then got a tuk tuk truck to the bus and were off on the bumpy Laos roads towards Vang Vieng, I am never complaining about potholes in England again. Also once again after 5 minutes on the bus Rachel was fast asleep.We drove to about half way and stopped for a pe...