Hello everyone, Whoops, I've got a bit behind on writing these blogs, mainly because we've been too busy. So, we left Vang Vieng on the Friday before last on a bus to the Laos capital, Vientiane. Luckily this part of the country is a lot flatter so it wasn't such a windy journey as it was to Vang Vieng. Also it was only about 3 hours, not 7! When we arrived it was early evening so we had dinner and found a hotel. Unfortunately we were put in a room with no wind...

Hello everyone, On Sunday we left Luang Prabang for our next destination, Vang Vieng. It took around 7 hours in a tiny mini-bus with no air-con but it wasn't too bad. We were driving through mountains the whole way, turning around sharp corners constantly so it's a good job neither of us get travel sick, or anyone else on the bus! It was also pretty bumpy in places where there were lots of pot-holes or where dirt had covered the road because of land slides. We p...

Hello everyone, So, we left Chiang Mai last Monday. It took around 5 hours to get to Chiang Khong, a town on the border where we stayed in a guesthouse for one night. On the bus there was a Dutch couple, 3 Chileans and 3 English girls. The girls fitted the 'rah' stereotype perfectly with such conversations as 'I'm a bit worried because daddy says I'm going into my overdraft'... 'well why don't you just ask him to put more money in'... 'well yah I will' and 'mumm...