4:30am and the alarm wakes me and probably the other five people who were sleeping soundly in the dorm. I had to be up and ready to be picked up by my tuk tuk driver at 5am. Trying to get ready in the dark whilst being very quiet is never a success!! I managed to leave the hostel without waking the security guard though, great security!! On my tuk tuk at 5am, it's still dark but the roads are as full of tuk tuks, mopeds and trucks as it ever is during the day. Th...

It's time to say goodbye to Laos which has been a quick 5 day visit. I wish I had more time to see this beautiful country and travel further south but time is seriously ticking away fast now. So this little hobo needs to keep on moving, I'm really excited to be going to Cambodia and hoping that this will be the highlight of the trip (although doubt it will beat Pai, it will take a lot to beat that place). My backpack feels 20% heavier then when I got out here, ...

Maria and I got up at 7am this morning to go for a walk around the temples of Luang Prabang. We have been the sensible ones and didn't go out last night so that we could get up early. Although it wasn't an early night as when everyone else got back at 2am they kindly woke us up. The joys of dorms and hostels. No idea where we were going we set off on our walk, Luang Prabang like every city/town in Thailand or Laos there are temples everywhere so we soon found so...

Got up ridiculously early this morning to go and watch the monks. My alarm went off at 5:30am, I woke the German girl, Maria in my room and we literally threw clothes on and headed in to the market square. Monks came from all directions to collect their offerings from the locals. They walked so bloody fast it was hard to photo them. We were only out for about 45mins so we grabbed a passion fruit and mango smoothie from a street seller and headed back to the hoste...

After last nights experience of staying in a village that could have been the set of a horror movie we got up at 7:00am, ready to get down to the boat for 8:00am. We planned to get there early to try and get the half decent seats so we weren't sat like sardines at the back next to the very loud engine. None of us were impressed with the thought of being on the slow boat for the next 7+ hours. Laos has a history of French involvement and there are numerous bakerie...