Today is our last day in Laos - and just 1 week left of our trip. Tomorrow we fly to Siem Reap in Cambodia We've had a brilliant time here. Luang Prabang is very well developed and the lack of noise has really helped us to relax before we head to Cambodia. We've felt like we haven't done very much over the last 4 or 5 days but we still seem to have fit a lot in! On Sunday we went on an elephant ride. Eco-tourism seems to be quite a big thing here and severa...

Just in case - as we've done two blogs in one day you may miss the link to the last Vietnam one. On our way to Hanoi airport we met Kim, a Canadian student who was on her way to New Zealand to study, who we befriended for the evening While at the airport I got a tap on the shoulder. A man in a suit says, "Excuse me, we need you to unlock your bag so it can go through security." I follow him back through immigration, where they keep my passport, to t...