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...