I'm afraid we don't have many poductive activities to report this time, been keeping things fairly cheap and relaxed as we don't have long left :(

Vang Vieng was great fun we found a brilliant, cheap guesthouse with Steph and Alex and basically enjoyed the bar and restaurant scene for a day or two.

We spent a day doing the infamous (amongst the backpacking contingent) tubing. This involves floating down a river, with or without the aid of a tractor inner tyre and stop off regularly at bars on the riverside for a beer, bucket or shot of disgusting but free Mekong Whiskey! At each bar there are a variety of super high rope swings, slides, jumping decks and zip lines....all very dangerous and very fun. I, unfortunately decided not to risk it with a fractured rib but Adds and Alex went for it and gandered off to prove their manly caveman qualities. Luckily nobody from our group was injured as we saw plenty of crutches, bandages and limps in the daytime around town.

We didn't stay as long as planned as we needed to get to Vientiene, get a Thai visa which takes two days then get down into Thailand for a final stint of beach living before the dreaded...hometime!!!!

We didn't do much in Vientiene, mainly because there is nothing to do. A big attraction is a huge fountain but it didn't even have water in it. We ended up meeting this great American girl called Marlee who we spent a few days chilling out with eating, playing cards and drinking beer and wine with.

When our visas were sorted we booked a night bus across the Laos border into Thailand to take us to Bangkok where we once again met up with Alex and Steph.

Not long until we see you all now, yay. Can't wait to eat some cheese, proper bread, sausage and mash, cereal and drink milk and cider mmmmmmm :)

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