Today we woke surprisingly early and felt really good after our exercise yesterday, Kratos hadn't slept well as his shoulders were throbbing but we had the opposite effect and slept like babies glad for the exercise. We all met up and headed to a new place for breakfast... We were wanting a chilled morning so found a quite restaurant and wandered in. Here we ordered some rice soup and shakes and chatted non stop rubbish like normal while reminiscing on the prev...

The start of a new month would be celebrated by tubing, the backpackers rite of passage here in Lao. Kratos and I headed out for breakfast early with Laura grabbing a bite to eat a bit later on. Laura had arranged to meet the Australian girl Kate we kept bumping into to join our tubing group. She should of gone with some of her friends yesterday but fell poorly at the last minute. Unfortunately she had to leave tomorrow so this was her last chance to tube, someth...

I had slept a total of 14 hours last night and yesterday which is pretty crazy for me, I guess the bus ride took it out of me. It was quite overcast and Laura was stirring beside me. Instead of waking her I went for a walk around the local area and stopped by a little eatery with locals tucking into soups. I ordered a rice porridge with pork which was super tasty I might add. After finishing I continued by walk around the dusty streets meeting only local people s...

The overnight mini bus ride had as expected, been pretty uncomfortable. The driver was in communication with one of his mates via Bluetooth for most of the trip. He also seemed quite tired which probably accounted for the 3 coffees and 3 red bulls he drank and whatever pick me up he kept taking with his friend every hour or so. The bus stopped a total of seven times, which I think was again, to stop him falling asleep. Just after dawn we arrived at the border ...