Friday, our drive to Luang Prabang was very scenic, we drove through mountains and beautiful small farming towns. We arrived at around 17:30 and had to hunt around for somewhere to stay as we didn't pre-book, it was fairly easy as there is loads of guesthouses we just had to find one in our price range, we ended up in a triple room, us and Evelien, like a giant sleep over. We dropped our bags then headed straight out for food, after, we had showers and a early ni...

Wednesday, the drive to Vang Vieng only took 3 hours however the driver was a lunatic so Laura moved seats as she thought she was going to go flying through the windscreen. When we arrived we dropped our bags in our hotel then went for some lunch with Evelien and Joseph, an American guy from Eveliens hostel. After lunch we decided to go exploring, we walked to Tham Chang caves, on route we were joined by Caroline and Alex from Switzerland and Christoph from Belgi...

Sunday we caught the 24 hour bus to Laos at 17:00, we quickly grouped with Evelien from Netherlands, Taylor from Canada and 2 French guys- us westerners sticking together! We had a not very good start with the drivers trying to get us to sit on s***ty wet seats so had a bit of an argument with them, they yelled at us and told us the good seats were for Vietnamese people... Racists! The bus got uncomfortably packed with Vietnamese people even sleeping in the isles...