We seem to have done so much since our last blog entry. The elephants in Luang Prabang were a real highlight to Laos. We ended up booking with a local agent who specialises with the elephant tours - paid a little more but most the money went to the elephant camps in looking after and protecting them. The other agents didnt seem to care too much about this!!! When we first arrived we had to get a small canoe like boat across to the other side of the river, with ab...

We finally built up the courage to do tubing. After serveral death stories and roughly 80% of Vang Vieng with eye infections from the river, we decided to risk it as it was the main activity to do. Even our guide book talked about the deaths on the river!. We bought our tube (a big tractor tyre) and jumped on the tuk tuk. Even on the journey to the river, people were talking about friends who had accidents, head injuries, hospital trips etc!! We did wonder what w...

Hi, Been a while since we updated our blog. We have been a week in Laos now and its brilliant - everyone is so friendly and go out of their way to make it enjoyable. The locals are fab, children are great, speak very good english. The first 5 days, we spent in Vietianne, was a lovely city, but I spent most of the 5 days in bed as I was very sick - we have started our malaria tablets and Martin is having no side affects, and typically im having loads. Now in Vang ...