5th November 2009 - 9th November 2009: After Vang Vieng we made our way to Vientiane - the capital city of Laos - for what was hoped to be a short visit simply to undertake our sole purpose of applying for a new Thai visa as we had already used our first one by taking this convoluted route around South East Asia. We made our way to the embassy on push bikes - mainly because it was the cheapest form of transport - and having got there we were told that we couldn...

3rd November 2009 - 5th November 2009: Our journey from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng was only about four hours however it felt like a lifetime. Liza has developed some sort of acute travel sickness - must be the fact that we seem to spend more time on buses than we do on solid ground. We later found out from a Lonely Planet guide book that it is one of the worst journey's - they actually handed out sick bags - in SE Asia and the second most dangerous (after the ...

30th October 2009 - 3rd November 2009: Our journey from Chang Mai in total took about a day and a half and consisted of a minibus journey to our overnight hostel and then a speedboat from the Thai border along the Mekong River into Luang Prabang in Laos. The minibus journey was where the start of Liza's new found travel sickness occurred (not very good when you are travelling around the world and combined with Sean's minor fear of flying probably means we are t...