Our week in Laos has been a much needed break from all the go, go, go that we've been doing through much of Southeast Asia. The Laos people are among the friendliest we've met the world over and this has directly translated into us having some great experiences throughout the country.Our first stop in Laos was in Vientiane by means of the nightmare journey from Hoi An, Vietnam. We quickly discovered that this must be the sleepiest national capital on earth. Th...

From Phnom Penh, Cambodia we caught the 7 hr bus to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, which included one of our easiest and quickest border crossings yet.In the last week we have found Vietnam to be a huge array of different things: stunning and peaceful, ugly and dirty, friendly, aggressive, very loud, and with this has grown our love-hate relationship with the country.Arriving in Ho Chi Minh sounds something like this -"beep beep beep beep beep beeeeeeep"....