Date: 26th May 2011 Place: 4000 Islands Weather: really hot again, the sun has finally returned! We got woken up pretty suddenly and instantly had people asking us where we were going next, even whilst I was still lying in bed! Carm told them that if they wanted to get off the bus alive they had better not mention anything about tickets again to her. We then got on a minibus which we thought was taking us to a ferry to get to the islands. We were wron...

Date: 25th May 2011 Place: Vang Vieng Weather: Raining We were leaving Vang Vieng today to go to 4000 Islands. The bus was at 1pm so we decided to head to the pool for the morning. I think we were a bit optimistic with the weather though because we were lying on the sunbeds in our bikinis watching a load of storm clouds come together. It did start to rain but we just went in the pool and did some lengths; we were wet anyway so it didn't matter J When we...

Date: 24th May 2011 Place: Vang Vieng Weather: raining in the morning, brightened up later Tubinggg!!!! Today was the day we had been waiting for because it was so famous amongst backpackers. My problem was I still felt sick. Not a good way to be when you are going out partying all day. I still felt really hungry so got the Tubers breakfast which was really big and actually came with free shots at the end. We could tell it was going to be a strange day fro...

Date: 23rd May 2011 Place: Vang Vieng Weather: so so so hot After that bus journey we couldn't handle tubing on the first day. We decided a pool day was in order and we had heard about one we could use at a hotel just up the road. After having a bit of breakfast at Central Backpackers we head up there and got some sunbeds looking out over the river and towards the mountains. It was really nice, like on a private balcony. I was convinced all day that I w...

Date: 22nd May 2011 Place: On a bus but eventually Vang Vieng, Laos Weather: super super hot and sunny I managed to get a little bit of sleep before being taken into a shop where they would sort out our Laos Visas and then gave us our 'VIP' breakfast of a ham and egg toastie with a fly on the side. Thai and Laos people really know how to do things slowly. We were in the Visa place for about an hour and a half and then we took a 2 minute journey down the ro...