Well!! The drive from Luang Prabang to Luang Namtha beat them all! THIS WAS THE CRAZIEST YET!!! Crazy pot holed roads as usual, winding around the mountians, but pair that with a crazy angry formula 1 wannabe Lao driver and it wasnt good!!!! 9 hours took 7.5 in the end, so we had that to thank him for, but gee mee, few very close calls a few times with massive lorries etc, was an awful jounrey all in all! Was very relieved, and surprised to arrive in one peice! T...

The bus from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang took 7.5 hours and again was just crazy winding, mountainous roads full of pot holes! It seems that is just the way Laos roads are ha! Again it was breathtaking scenery across the mountains, forests, roadside shacks etc. Arrived at Luang Prabang bus station, which again was good few km out of the centre, as it was 7.30pm and dark I shared a tuk tuk with a few other people and got dropped off in the cnetre of town. I hadnt...

The bus from the capital of Laos (Vientiane) to Vang Vieng took 4 hours, and was the bumpiest and most windy journey ever! The roads literally just wind around the moutain, there is 1 main road up through Laos and this is it - crazy! Full of pot holes, just crazy. The one good thing in Laos driving is that unlike Cambodia and Vietnam the drivers dont continuisly beep at other drivers to let them know they are there, so it was a bumpy - but quiet journey! The driv...

Okay, so an early start today (Wed 9th Nov) to get to the 'bus station' to go to Hanoi airport to fly to the capital of Laos. Again I had my free breakfast in the hostel before heading off. Walked with my rucksack to the 'bus station' in Hanoi which is just a road with some mini-vans on it, unfortunately in Vietnam they don’t have timetables for buses, the bus leaves when it is full. So I was there around 7.45am but the bus didn’t leave until 08.15, meaning...

So I arrived in Hanoi on Sun 6th morning at 07.30am, I was quite pleased as managed to sleep really well on the 13 hour sleeper bus so felt quite rested which good. Hostel didnt arrive to pick us (Roxanne Chloe and I) up on arrival though even though we had pre arranged that, so that was a pain, again lots of taxi drivers trying to get your custom. But we sat tight and waited for the hsotel to come, took an hour and a few phonecalls, but was afree lift so we thou...