S: We grabbed a bus to Vang Vien, which arrived at 3am in the morning with Kate and Ryan. We knew where to stay as we had been recommended a hostel already. They wanted to charge us for the room for that night, which obviously we declined and slept on loungers until they woke us up at 7:30am to say we could have the rooms. J: This town is popular for tubing so that's what we went to do. A van took us all up the river and it starts at a bar with free shots which ...

J: We got to Luang Prabang at 4am instead of the 8am we expected. We knew where we were heading and thankfully they let us in without charging. Although we did stay in the bar until 6am watching the world cup. S: We met up with other travellers and headed to Tad Kuang Si waterfalls, which were tiered and extremely beautiful. You could swim in them and there were lots of friendly fish biting you if you kept still for more than two seconds. J: When in the last to...

J: When we got cash out at Jinghong we only got a little for the night as it was Chinese Yen still and we didn't want to have left over money when we got to the Laos board. Turns out the boarder crossing didn't have an ATM and we didn't have enough cash to buy both visas! So I left Sam at the boarder as collateral awaiting my return while I went to get cash out of the closest ATM. But when I did return the official wanted double because it wasn't Yen or Dollar. ...

J: Our flight plan to Vietnam had to change due to flight being cancelled, not a problem; we are travellers and took it in our stride. Once we flew to Kunming and went to check in for the next flight the fool at the desk told me I needed a visa to get into Vietnam, I had it under good authority (my wonderful wife) that we could simply get the visa at the Vietnam airport. After defending my position & reliable source (after all I was right and this fool was w...

S: The night train to Chengdu was 16 hours long and we both knew it was going to be a long one in a chair. We started to play cards and the Chinese couple across the table from us soon became very interested. James started to show the man our cards for trumps. After 5 minutes and no English being spoken he knew how to play the game. Let's just say the time passed very quickly. He soon didn't like me as I kept winning and every time I won he made funny noises at m...