We decided to go and see the oldest Wat in town. On the way passing the presidential Palace the roads we closed off, some dignitaries around for a conference on Cluster Bombs (their evils) so we saw a few motorcades with outriders- it was pretty cool.

The Wat (Buddhist Temple) was nice enough, it has thousands of images of Buddha in various shapes and sizes in alcoves around the outside walls. We started talking to a monk, turns out he's a big football fan, And was berating England's performance in the World Cup!

He was pretty young (26- yes it is still young, because I say so, ok? Lol) and he'd just got back from studying in Thailand. Monks spend a lot of time studying and are expected to speak several languages including english. Now he spent half of his days studying computers- MS Office no less- apparently Powerpoint really is the path to enlightenment!

Tom: yeah, it was mint. Like he taught us how to pray to budha as well and told us about buddhism.

After that we had lunch at the great all you can eat place, they had Lau stuff and dim sun. It tasted great and was amazing value- alas there was something amis because we both spent the afternoon with dodgey stomachs. It was a little concerning given we had a bus ride that night! But when it came time for the bus it was all fine (given a couple of doses of Lopermide anyway!)

It was a proper sleeper bus but fully flat beds. The only small downside, for anyone travelling alone at least, was that is was two per bed- and they wern't very wide! We met a guy from Germany all Bastien who was headed to the same place as us- Tad Lo on the Bolvean Platau.

Tom: The only annoyance I had was that Brett told me not to go on the 4 beds behind us (like a king size) cause he thought people were going to go on them. Turns out nobody went on them apart from the German guy above us whilst I was squished.