Sabaidee Today we leave behind the landlocked country of Laos and head out over the Friendship Bridge and back into Thailand to Nong Khai. From Nong Khai we pick up the overnight train which will take us all the way back to Bangkok. Our time in Laos has been OK but not our favourite country, although the people have been friendly there has not been enough to keep us occupied everyday and we are so used to being on the go. That said it has been nice to move at a...

Sabai Dee We were back on the sight seeing trail today and after a late breakfast we prepared to do battle with the army of Tuk Tuk drivers eyeballing us from up the road.The battle lines were drawn and we were ready but we got the nicest Tuk Tuk driver ever and didn't even have to haggle over a price.In we hopped and for once whizzed along the streets of Vientiane towards our destination 4km outside the city. Pha That Luang is the most important national monum...

Sabaidee It's that time of the day and a new blog update. The good news is that the bed here is much better than in Vang Vieng although the bad news is that we have a noisy team of builders hammering away outside our window and snooking up flem (a local sport in Laos!!!!) then spitting it out like a frogs chorus!!!!! Our day started as every other over breakfast and planning what we were going to do for the day. Unfortunately the first jobs that we had to tackl...

Sabaidee Now i'm not sure if we were up early because we went to bed really early or it was the fact that we were ready to leave Vang Vieng behind but by 8.15am we had got up and were queueing at the bank for money to leave!!!! Our bus arrived at 9am and we loaded onto it then sat on the old runway till 10.30am when it decided that we could not squeeze any more bodies onto it and off we went. It was the express bus and the journey to Vientiane the nation's cap...

Sabaidee Welcome back to the wild west in Laos!!!! It seems that anything goes here in Vang Vieng, you can get opium and marajuana with your evening meal or even a magic mushroom shake to drink. You have heard of the McDonalds 1/4 pounder well last night we had the Vang Vieng 1/4 ouncer it was the tiniest burger we had ever seen about the size of a 50p piece it made us look like giants eating it!!!! Today the sun was up early and we had booked to go tubing on...