8th April: So after our amazing time visiting Angkor Wat we left Siem Reap via the plushest mini airport you have ever seen to Vientaine the capital of Laos. We didn't spend much time there, just a night and left the next day to Vang Vieng. I found it a bit of an odd place, quite small and not particuarly developed in some ways but a real backpackers mecca with loads of young european travellers and full of cafes selling western fayre and playing re-runs of F...

8th April: So after our amazing time visiting Angkor Wat we left Siem Reap via the plushest mini airport you have ever seen to Vientaine the capital of Laos. We didn't spend much time there, just a night and left the next day to Vang Vieng. I found it a bit of an odd place, quite small and not particuarly developed in some ways but a real backpackers mecca with loads of young european travellers and full of cafes selling western fayre and playing re-runs of Fri...