Wednesday was a brighter day, we awoke feeling refreshed and decided to make the most of the sunny day and do lots of reading on the loungers in the garden area. We reflected on our time in Vietnam which had felt to be more chaotic than Laos. A few things i hadn't mentioned previously like the "same same but different" quote in south east Asia which is used a lot when they are referring to most things - this is also tackily printed on tops out here, I haven't y...

Tuesday We got up feeling very fragile and had to move to another room for the next 2 nights so packed up ourself and moved across at 11.30am. Pat and Dylan were leaving today so we said bye to them and the beasty hearts had messaged to say they'd booked on the 12.30pm tubing group so we said we would join. The day didn't begin well when I wore a white top and spilt milk chocolate from my pancake down it, and then I had to go back to the room to get more money a...

Monday Another day awoken with a fresh head which was great, we had a nice breakfast and decided to spend the day chilling in our guest house Garden again. The other girls had gone kayaking and Pat had gone rock climbing on his own. Dylan appeared around midday and we all went for a dip in the river next to the island bar which was ran by hippy-like French guys. The river was a bit dirty but really refreshing and it was funny to watch the groups of people going ...

Sunday We got up and went for a stroll around the town, finding a part of the riverside where you could paddle and realising how fast the current was. We decided after breakfast to just have a chilled day in the sun, as the place we were staying at had a nice little garden area with sun loungers, so we chilled out for a bit and saw the owners little boy (about 3 or 4) who the afternoon before had been trying to play with us. They also had a little dog that was a...

Luang Prabang onto Vang Vieng So Friday, expectantly was a bit of a write-off. Lauren got up before me and went out for breakfast while I stayed in bed and had a chat to Nick (which was ridiculous early hours in the morning time to him). Then by the time I got up it was afternoon so we went out and I got a nice pizza from across the road. The girls had invited us to their hostel as it had a pool but it was the hostel Lauren and I had vowed to never return to and...