26/11/09 Village Trek Day One We awoke to go on our 3 day trekking tour and we were ready to go waiting outside the guesthouse for the tour guide. After about half an hour Phil went to the tour office to see where he was and then a chap arrived and apologised to Liz for being late. Apparently the guesthouse we were in was new so noone knew where we were staying. We were a bit worried as we'd booked a cab with the same company to the airport when we got back from...

23/11/09 Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang We packed our bags and bought bacon rolls for the journey to Luang Prabang. We got a tuk tuk to take us to the main bus station where we boarded a bigger bus for the journey. Tom and Emer were on the same bus too and the bus was so full that the aisle was completely full of backpacks and suitcases. If we had had an accident we would have been unable to get off past all the bags !!! The driver made a stop after about an hour a...

19/11/09 Vientiane to Vang Vieng We woke early to pack for our bus to Vang Vieng in Northern Laos. The journey was only four hours and not too bad at all. We arrived in the town at about lunchtime at a hotel and bungalow complex outside of the main town. Phil checked a bungalow there and it was pretty nice but we decided to have a look in the town as we had been told there were some cheap bungalows on the river. We spent about an hour in the town trying to find ...

15/11/09 Don Det to Vientiane We woke up and packed our bags for the journey to Vientiane the capital of Laos. We went off for breakfast at a resturant overlooking the Mekong but the girls were so grumpy we left and went to another with much happier staff. We ate our now staple breakfast of bread and cow cheese and a fresh pineapple juice before we collected our bags and went to the tour office. We waited there for an hour using up some free internet time we had...

10/11/9 Siem Reap to Phnom Penh We were picked up early in a minibus and taken to a larger bus back to Phnom Penh. On the way to the bus station we passed a school with loads of neatly uniformed, all getting ready for their classes and it was before 7 am!! Under the bus, in the baggage store, there was a dog packed in a small box, with just enough space to get his nose through. he was yapping away obviously terrified, poor thing. At the first stop the owner must...