Alicia: Day 5: The bus journey from Vang Vieng worked out pretty well - we arrived at the bus terminal around 3pm then took a tuk tuk to the centre of Luang Prabang. As we couldn't find a decent hostel online, we were out on the streets again looking for a place to stay, which wasn't too difficult and we ended up at a small but clean guesthouse just off the main high street with perfect access to the night markets and temples all for £7 a night. Brilliant :) A...

Mike: Day 3: The bus arrived at 3pm in Vang Vieng (it was really nice to have a day bus and a journey that was "only" 4 hours). We were then offered a free tuk tuk into town, the trade off was they dropped you at a hotel that wanted you to stay there but we just picked our stuff up and left in the direction of our hotel. We were staying at Kamphong hotel, it was ok. It had weirdly uneven stairs leading up to our room. The room itself was clean with a double b...

Mike: Day 1: We woke up on the train around 6:45am with the conductor coming round to put the beds away and turn the carriage back into seats. We'd been warned that although the train was scheduled to arrived at 7:30am, that it'd actually arrive at 9:30am. Sure enough we pulled into Nong Khai station at 9:32am. We gathered our stuff and talked the 1.5km to the Thai-Laos border at the "Friendship Bridge". At the bridge we paid the $35 for our Laos visas and got ...