Hello everyone, So on the Tuesday before last we arrived in Hanoi from Vientiane. We flew with Lao airlines which to be honest I thought was going to be a bit dodgy, especially since the plane had propellors but it turned out to be pretty good. While we were in the air we could see that the rivers were really high and a lot of farmland had been flooded because of the typhoon. When we arrived we went through immigration and got a taxi into the city, well I say ta...

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...

Hello everyone, We are actually in Laos now but I'll fill you in on what we did during the rest of our time in Chiang Mai! We had quite an interesting experience last Thursday night... we were in our room at about 11pm and there was a storm outside. Ryan was in the middle of skype-ing his dad when there was suddenly a massive bang and a sound of something crashing to the floor just outside, then the power went off. Lightning had struck the electric pylon which ...