We had a nice lie in on Tuesday before getting up for some breakfast and then tubing. We arrived at the tube rental place at 1.15pm, signed our lives away, got in a tuk tuk and went up the river. We arrived at the top of the river where the first bar is and decided not to get immediately onto the river. We shared a beerlao (not quite chang but it will do....) and sat in the sun. We all took our turn on the slide before floating down the river to the next bar. ...

Welcome to Vang Vieng!!! Probably the wierdest little town we have visited so far. I will get into more detail about this after a recap of the past two days. Yesterday we gave ourselves a little bit of a lie in. Jess and I went to pick up some smoothies from the market right next to our guesthouse - freshly made there in front of us - deeeelish!! We then headed out to rent some bikes. Our guidebook had mentioned that the Tribal Museum was shut on a Sunday wher...

Hi All, Finally about time that I wrote something! Has been a couple of posts. At the moment, Em Em and I are having a "chilled out" afternoon at the Little Bird Hostel (voted our favourite hostel of the trip to far). However it is insanely hot so the chilling is minimal!!! By the evening of Thursday night, we were all finally feeling a bit better and decided to organise a 1 day trek. We were picked up at 8:30 Friday morning and our first stop was th...

Tuesday we went to Koh Phi Phi - a stunning island! The weather wasn't fantastic in the morning so we were a bit concerned but by the time we got on the boat it was ok. We stopped off in Phi Phi Ley first where The Beach was filmed. It has no inhabitants and is very secluded, the beach was packed though with loads of tourists who were doing a similar day trip to us. We then went into this little bay area that cant be accessed during low tide. We got to go for a l...

Welcome to paradise! We are now staying at the JW Marriott in Phuket....a beautiful resort with stunning swimming pools overlooking the ocean where all one needs to worry about all day is "where will I lie down next? maybe the main pool?" However, before I get into the details of the most relaxing part of our trip, a little information about the full moon party! So wednesday was a very relaxing day. Sadly it was absolutely boiling so sleeping past 9 oc...