Hello from Vietnam, We are in Nha Trang at the moment. Nha Trang is a big beach city with a big budget! It is really nice here with loads of fancy restaurants (not that we have seen them because we love our local Indian restaurant too much), theme parks, trendy bars, boat tours and lots of sun! We bumped into our mate Ben who we met in Thailand (went on the trek with him in Chiang Mai), whilst wandering around the streets! We had a few dinks with him that night...

Hello! Wow! We have just got to Nha Trang after an amazing 3 days at Jungle beach. It was so beautiful! It was great to relax and enjoy the beach and gorgeous weather after all the rain of Laos. We definately got back to basics in our bamboo hut with only a raised matress and mosquito net (not even a proper door and the windows were curtained holes!) but everything about our 3 days there was perfect! We loved our bamboo hut! We arrived at 5am on the back of a m...

Greetings form Vietnam, What a journey from Laos! We set off from 4,000 islands on a boat at 11am to the mainland, then after a 4 hour minivan to Pakse we climbed aboard our bus to Vietnam. This was no normal bus - there were more huge sacks of rice than people! We were the only Westerners on the bus and we were squished down the front with about 12 Vietnamese people while the back and underneath of our seats were full of rice sacks! It was an interesting journe...

Hello! The sleeper bus wasn't as bad as we'd thought; although it's made up of bunkbeds as wide as two bus seats and barely long enough for me, so I definately had a more sleep filled and comfortable night than Rich! However, at around 5am the horn honking started as the roads were full of recently awakened water buffalo, cows and goats, and the pumping beats of Laotian pop music started blaring at full blast! Consequently, when we got to 4000 Islands at about 1...

Hello again, Here in the capital now. Vientiene is a very small capital city but still by far the biggest city we have visited in Laos. We spent the first day here sight seeing and trying to hold my desire back to buy an amazing ski jacket for 15 quid (I'm holding out until Hoi An now). We visited the 'Arc de Triumphe of the East' today which was built with American money set aside for a new airport runway in Laos so it's gained the nickname "the vertical r...