Don Det is beautiful. Its the laziest island with bamboo huts, hammocks and cushions everywhere. My hut overlooked the Mekong River of which I thought I could get changed with the door open and no one seeing. Until 3 blokes bobbed past on tubes. Awkward. As it was so lazy I decided to do a day tour kayaking and dolphin watching. We ended up having lunch in Cambodia by paddling over the otherside of the river. The dolphins were really close too. The following d...

Vientiene was more of a stop off so I could get to the South easier however I was suprised how much I liked the city. Granted, there was not alot to do, but it was good to be in a 'city' after filling up on villages and little towns. I booked into a dorm for two nights and the following day I took the local bus to Buddha Park, an hour away. As it was the local bus it meant I was the only tourist so could only assume the driver understood me enough to know where...

The journey to Vang Vieng was again, a death-trap. The rain had meant landslides had hit the roads and coupled with heavey fog and pot-holes it was a wonder how we managed to get to Vang Vieng in 7 hours instead of the 20 hours that some people had spoken about in the hostel. Nonethless, the scenery was amazing with cliffs, hills and villages all driving past on the way. Due to the rain, it meant tubing had been cancelled the past couple of days as the currents...

To get to Lauang Prabang it took 3 days, 2 nights. I decided to take the Slow Boat over which meant floating down the Mekong River and getting to see the views. At night, we stopped off at Pakbeng, the oddest, scariest village I had been to yet. The Guesthouse owner was a creep who decided he would order my food for me so I ended up eating fried Buffalo for dinner. I was glad to eventually get back on the boat in the morining and head to Luang Prabang. The plac...