We arrived in Luang Prabang yesterday after a fun five hour bus journey in the sweltering heat. By the time we arrived it was about 3pm. We found a place to stay finally, in a wooden guest house which did look like it was about to burn down. We attempted to find our way around Luang Prabang with a map on the back of a leaflet for a bar, that wasn't a good plan as we got completely lost. We ate in the first restaurant we saw and then attempted to find the nigh...

Yesterday we got the bus up to Vang Vieng, which is little mountain town four hours north of Vientiane. We arrived at 2pm and checked into the Babylon Guesthouse. We have this massive room, with three double beds and a bathroom and we paid less than two pund each per night. Its got amazing views and a tv and bar downstairs.We had lunch and wandered round the nearby shops for a bit. Everything is stupidly cheap. Bought myself some sunglasses and a pair of addidas ...

We woke up on the overnight train at about 6am, which is the earliest we had woken up in the whole month so far. Had breakfast on the train with some interesting coffee. When we got of the train at Nong Khai, we had to get a tuk tuk to the border to depart from Thailand, then get a bus over the Friendship Bridge to Laos immigration to get a visa on arrival. This took forever but we finally got out the other side. Got a very long tuk tuk ride to Vientiane and pick...