Hi have been in Vientiane the capital of Laos today & tonight. We caught a mini van from Vang Vieng which took about 3 hours. The journey here was more scary than all the stuff we have done so far zip lining, elephant riding, tubing included! The driver was a maniac! There aren't really any obvious road rules in Laos anyway & it seems if something gets in the way just overtake it but this driver was crazy! I felt like my head was going to fall off my n...

Hi we arrived in Vang Vieng on Christmas day. We had a small amount of trouble finding somewhere to stay, going to 3/4 guest houses & being turned away because they were full. I think most people arrived before Xmas day so they wouldn't have to travel that day like us! But we found somewhere & it was cheap so it was all good! We went out to one of the many video bars in Vang Vieng that night. Most of them show friends on the tv's but we found one showin...

We arrived from the slow boat in Luang Prabang 2 days ago. We went to the night Market & bought a few little things. Dando bought me a bag for Xmas! Yesterday we went to the Elephant Village, which was brilliant. We rode on the elephants necks & visited a waterfall. We rode the elephants to the river this morning & gave them a bath. Mine was the only elephant that went all the way under the water & kept dunking her head in! It was so much fu...

Hi ended up spending last night having a few beer laos' with some Slovak guys & girls staying at our guest house which was fun! We are now on the slow boat going from Huay Xai to Luang Prabang. It takes 2 days & we stop at Pak Beng overnight. We are going down the Mekong River & the scenery is beautiful. Which is why we chose this method of getting to Luang Prabang instead of sitting on a bus for 12 hours. We keep passing little fishermen in boa...

OMG! This place is amazing! We arrived from a 2 hour journey on the back of a pick up truck, then hiked for about an hour. When we reached the site we were allocated tree houses. We got the 2 person tree house as we are on honeymoon! So we hiked & zip lined through the jungle to our tree house. Was quite scared of the zip lines at first, the scariest bit being taking off as you feel really safe once you are in the air as you wear a harness & have a safe...