Hello hello. First opff my location is all wrong, getting confused with where i have been am and am goiung now!!! in Lizhou not yangshou but cant change it!!! Well here i am in china, for the second evening actually. Crossed the border yeaterday but we spent last night in the middle of nowhere in tiny huts on stilts!!! quite entertaining if for nothing else then for the size of the bugs flying around and the snakes!!!! while it was picturesque and some what ran...

a quick if not slightly drubnken blog. BNeen in hanoi a few days, been to see Ho Chi Minh in his mauseleom, very odd but kinda profound i guess. they love uncle ho here!!! Had a walk around the old quarter and spent a few days chilling out and just relaxing before the d\final leg of the trip, off to halong bay tomorrow where we spend a night on a bopat and a night on cat ba island!!!! apparently the island is like the setting for jurrasssssic park!!! after tha...

hello hello, currently trying to upload photos but not sure it will work so no promises! In Vientiane, very pretty city but not as Luang Prabang!!! Still for the capitol city its very very chilled out and incredibley clean!!!!! Arrived here yeastrday evening after spending the morning tubeing ion Vang Vieng, that was great fun but we have a bus full of sunburnt travellers now!!! I'm not to bad, just a but red on my calves but then again 4 hours in the water and ...

hello Anyway, as i was saying BIG cockroaches!!!! hehe. Arrived here in vang vieng about 3 o clock and headed for a swim in the near by ""blue lagoon"" before coming abck to the town for a bit to eat. Tubing tomorrow, sitting in a big rubber ring and floating down the mekong, apparently there are lots of bars along the way where you stop and get your free shot of Lao Loa, the locally brewed whisky. Sounds like madness to me plus we have to...

Hello there, just a very quick entry before my escort home finishes her haggling on the night market. Here in Laos, its by far the most beautiful country i have been to yet. Crossing the border was fun, and the currency here is even more fun (1600 kip to the pound) but all went smoothly and we were relaxing on a slow boat within the hour or two. the first day was 7 hours on the boat, bloody perfevct. Over 80 percent of Laos is mountain covered with jungle an...