We've arrived in the land of the 'tubing', the only problem being, the tubing was killed by the government late last year. You can still pay and rent a tube, but all the things that made tubing great (and in some cases, dangerous) have disappeared. For the time being at least. This left us with the 'other' option of things to do in VV, watch friends all day! It's strange... You're walking down the road, bars on your left, restaurants on your right and all you ...

The only time we seem to get up early on this trip is when we have a bus to catch, this time to Vang Vieng. We left at 08:30, actually let me rephrase that. We were supposed to leave at 08:30, but actually left some 45 minutes late. Initially we were picked up on a tuk-tuk and all of shared the opinion that surely this couldn't be our 'minivan' for the next 5 hours, could it? Thankfully it wasn't and it dropped us off at the station some 15 minutes later. T...