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...

Sabadee Well here we are in the little town of Vang Vieng which was a 6 hour bus ride South of Luang Prabang. We took the VIP bus to get here but I think they only called it VIP because it had curtains!!!!! There was a TV but it didn't work and my seat would not move from the reclining position so I spent 6 hours looking at myself in the mirror ceiling which is enough for anybody and it made my head look even bigger!!!! Vang Vieng is a stop off on the way to Vi...

Sabadee Hello everybody when we left you yesterday we had a look around town. Luang Prabang is a UNESCO world heritage site and has lovely buildings.We also spent some time down by the river even though we had spent the last few days on it!!!! In the evening we visited yet another night market and picked up a few nik naks before splashing out on a few nice glasses of wine in a trendy wine bar!!!! Today it was a clamber up the hill to visit Phu Si Temples, on t...