We took the small hour journey over to the next Island south of Don Khong with Sam and Claire, it's a much smaller island but has a really good waterfall on it, so we decided to stop there for 2 nights before crossing the border. After much traipsing about looking for a hut we found one right on the Mekong (seriously you cant get away from this river) the owner gave us our very own 'vip' section away room the other guests and we had our very own hammocks.We were ...

So after a couple of days in Pakse being let down by lonely planet we made our way to the islands, yeah but is not as idyllic as the islands in Thailand . No these islands are in the middle of the chocolate Mekong , but they're still pretty lovely. First of all we made our way to Don Khong, which is the biggest island and probably the quietest, well it was until we and two other Brit girls got there. Basically we learnt our lesson by getting a doddle of a one...

Hey guys, well I thought I'd post a blog just to let you all know about what's going on and our plans, yes we do have plans!Well the plan was to get to Vientiane in order to get our visa's then make our way up to Hanoi, I saw that it takes 24 hours on a bus to get to there, and with Laos not having made much of an impression on us (me mostly) we thought we'd give another week and try and love the place!We got to Vientiane and put our passports in late so it was 2...

We got to Pakse after 7 hours on a bus, and following the previous day we were in no mood for it, we'd had hardly any sleep in our guesthouse due to the cockroaches and Aaron making us sleep with the light on! Everyone we have met so far she just has to remind them, I suppose I am paying for it after telling everyone that she fell in up to her knees in bats***.A thing called Karma which we are going come to find out about a lot more on this trip, it's a b...

Judith Here! Well we jumped on the only bus available from Luang Prabang up to Vang Vieng (VV), the 'stupid, useless piece of?' the lonely planet says it takes 9 hours to get to VV, so we get lots of snacks and food for the journey and head down to the bus station, the only bus there was the local bus, no aircon, fab eh!The guy behind the counter lies to me?yeah he lied and says that the journey was only 6 hours and would get us there for 9.30, so when I've eate...