February 11th: We woke up early to Dan's awful sounding alarm and packed the last of our bits together before leaving the guesthouse. It was just after dawn as we left and on the streets were plenty of tourists, SLR at hand which made me wonder what could be happening. It was only when we turned the corner that we saw hundreds of young monks, dressed in bright orange robes, walking in an orderly line taking rice and other bits of food from women sitting in the s...

We woke up promptly at 6:30, got ready and carried our backpacks downstairs to the restaurant of our guest house. We ordered our breakfast and lunch to take away the day before so didn't waste any time having to order. The drinks came pretty quickly, dan got a coffee and i had an orange juice, it looked a bit radioactive; like a glass of flat mirinda and didn't taste fresh as it was advertised. We then received our breakfast, eggs with baguette. Mine were fried, ...

We were relieved to learn that we had hot water in our room which is a treat really! We were woken up by all the other backpackers boarding the mini bus to the border, the drivers were shouting about passport photos and prices for the visa into Laos. I was determined to sleep through the racket though, as i really needed a bit of a lay in after our arrival at 2:35 the night before. We ended up sleeping till around 09:00 when we slowly began to get ready, get ou...

We woke up that morning at around 07:00 to give us enough time to pack the last of our things up and get breakfast before we began our journey by Tuktuk at 09:00. We checked out of the guesthouse simply by placing the keys on the table out front and saying goodbye to the main woman who worked there. We proceeded 1 minute down the road and into BAP guesthouse, where the tuktuk would be picking us up. We sat down on a table outside, it's quite surprisingly cold i...

Day 6: When we woke up we finished the last of our packing and sat outside on our porch for a while, soaking up the last morning in such an amazing place. We had to leave before 12:00 in order to return our beloved motorbike/scooter without paying extra for another day. Dan drove down first with his backpack and cane back to pick me up. It was pretty quick to return the bike and helmets and we could leave our backpacks in the room until our minibus came later th...