VIP BUS HELL!!! 09/10/07 - 12/10/07 Silichith Guest House $7 After our awesome experience of tubing, we decided to move on to Luang Prabang, which used to be the capital before it changed to Vientiane. As Vang Viang's suh a small town we weren't really sure what time the local buses would leave and didn't fancy a morning of waiting around on the gravel strip so we thought... what the hell, we'll splash out on a VIP bus... BIG MISTAKE!!! The VIP bus was 95000 k...

TUBING... woohoo! 07/10/07 - 09/10/07 Dok Boua $5 The bus station at Vang Viang is just pretty much a gravel strip in the middle of nowhere, it's actually an old airstrip, which might explain its random appearance and why we must have looked quite so lost when we arrived there. Luckily the bus driver took pity on us and actually let us jump back on so he could take us the short journey into the town and drop us by some cheap guesthouses. We decided to spend ou...

I MISS TUK-TUKS!!! 05/10/07 - 07/10/07 - 1 ngt Haysoke Gusethouse $15 p/rm, 1 ngt $6 p/room Our Vietnam > Lao bus dropped us off in the station, where we were delighted to once again see tuk-tuks! They're not as nice as the tuk-tuk's of Thailand and Cambodia, but nonetheless they still serve there purpose. Took a tuk-tuk with some aussie peeps to the centre where, because of the heat and how nackered we were we settled pretty early on an average hotel at a...

6p BEERS & A KEBAB 02/10/07 - 05/10/07 - Central Stars Hotel $8 p/rm w/breakfast Arrived at a bus station outside the main town and at the An Phu guys instruction got in a free taxi and headed to his recommended hotel. Thought this might be a bad idea and was sure we'd end up paying for the taxi and getting ripped off, but as it turned out the An Phu Hotel was (for once) in a great location and pretty resonably priced... so after shopping around a bit we d...

HUE 30/09/07 - 02/10/07 $6 p/room An Phu did there usual thing off dropping us off nowhere near the backpacker/bar area at a really expensive hotel, but after what seemed like the longest walk ever in the midday sun we managed to find a hostel-type place along the river for $2 each. Although basic the room was really big and spacious and had fans and cable tv. There were windows on every wall bar one so it was really light and ariry and we were in a great loc...