This morning, we headed back to Delta Coffee for a baguette and coffee breakfast before heading out in search of a travel agent who could book us on a day trip to the Bolaven Plateau tomorrow. We want to see the tea and coffee plantations where the fantastic coffee we've been drinking later comes from! We tried a few places all over town; some were too expensive and others said that they needed a minimum of four people before they would run the tour so we shoul...

Another long bus journey today, but one to remember! We got up and checked out early then got a tuk tuk to the bus station and bought tickets for the 8:30am air-conditioned bus to Pakse, seven hours south of Tha Khaek. It cost an extra 10,000 kip for the air-con option…shame it didn't turn out to be true! It was quite a hot journey but luckily we were near a window that opened! Anyway, onto the interesting part… When we boarded the bus there were only a fe...

Up early today for our trip through the Kong Lo cave! We went downstairs to try and ask if we could leave our bags in our room while we go to the cave, but the girls in reception didn't really understand what we were asking. Eventually one of them pushed a chair under the clock on the wall, stood on the chair and pointed to the number 11 on the clock - I guess that that's when we have to check out by! We went back upstairs to pack and left our bags in reception...

We got picked up in a minibus this morning to take us to the main bus station, where we boarded our VIP bus to Kong Lo. As we were getting on the bus we saw 2 familiar faces - Natalie and Mai who we went tubing with in Vang Vieng! They were also on their way to the caves, and there were quite a few other Western people on the bus who were also heading there. The bus journey took about 6 and a half hours and for most of the way we had to listen to very loud Lao...

Today we were picked up at 9am and whisked to the bus station for our short ride back to the capital, Vientiane - only 3 hours this time! We were very tempted to book into Hotel Khamvongsa again after our last stay, but we decided that we should really stay somewhere cheaper this time so we headed to Saysouly Guesthouse instead when we arrived. We'd found this place in the Lonely Planet guidebook and it was OK, although it was a bit tired and needed updating. O...