Arrived in party town! It's yet another tiny town. The 2 streets are lined with bars that have bed like seats and friends on the tv. Had dinner with the gang then hit the buckets of vodka and had a night out in the one bar that stats open till midnight! The town is full of hippy looking travellers and the age range doesn't hit much over 30. On our second day we did what vang vieng us all about, tubing. Have to hire your tubes then get a tuk tuk up river. We kit...

Arrived in Vientienne, which is the capital city of Laos. To give you an idea of the size of such a bustling metropolis, it's somewhere between the size of New Malden and Motspur Park. It is very cute though and has everything you'd need. We were told you haven't been to Laos unless you've visited the Golden Stooper (sp?) temple. I'm sure it's lovely, but I've become a temple snob. It's basically a giant gold temple... But on a Laos scale. Unfortunately Laos was...

On Saturday we set off on our epic 10 hour journey to Laos. Left really early so we could arrive before the border crossing closed. Had lunch at a very local roadside cafe... If you can call it a cafe. We arrived at the border after the most traumatising journey up mountain paths on a bus. If I didn't feel so travel sick I'm sure I would have been stifling screams like the others. The border was a bit of an experience... First we saw a lorry full of caged up ...

Made the journey from Halong Bay back to Hanoi. 2 whole nights in one hotel, yay! Hanoi is quite intimidating and busy, everyone else didn't like it but I thought it was ok. We had a few nice meals in authentic Vietnamese restaurants that were obviously recommended by lonely planet as there were lots of Westerners sat with their guide books. We were going to do the water puppet show but other people had been to get tickets and it seemed they were running out s...

We arrived at 4 am from the overnight train into Hanoi then a bus journey to Ha Long Bay. Had to hang around to check in... Nightmare again. We went on a boat trip around the bay. It was really foggy which slightly spoiled the view but it was still stunning. Thousands of limestone rocks dotted in the sea. We went on the caves of ones of the islands. It was absolutely huge, felt like I was in the goonies and put wookie hole to shame. After dinner we went to a l...