So we had booked the day trip to Cape Reinga which left at 7am. Angharad had gone back to Auckland but on the trip was a few girls I had met during my stay at the bay of islands and Craig. Craig has decided to go out the night before and was sooooo hungover he actually slept most of the trip, some time on the floor of the bus! So our guide Chris picked us up and he was lovely, knew so much about the island and it's history that it was so nice to listen to him. ...

My final stop on the kiwi bus was up to the bay of Islands which is the most north part of New Zealand. I had arrived back in Auckland the pervious night and my plan was to have an early night as I needed to be up at 6am to catch the bus but I was given a rubbish room with no curtains and it was above and next to a bar which meant I finally got to sleep at about 4am. I got up and met craig who was also going on the trip (we had travelled up from Christchurch to...

We left Vientiane at 9am to make our way South to Kong Lor which is famous for having the longest caves in Laos. The caves reach 7.4km in distance. Our first stop was to the temple of Wat Phrabathponesan which had a lot of Buddha pictures inside and a big gold stuppah. I have attached a couple if pictures. We didn't travel too much further until we stopped for lunch in a roadside restaurant. The food wasn't great and I went to the toilet in the worst toilet I'...

The bus ride to Vientiane was one of the worst we have had. The road was sooo bumpy that at times we left our seats and it felt like we were flying through the air. I turned around at one point to talk to Saskya as we hit a bump and the next thing she was half a metre in the air. As we made our way into Vientiane the buildings were a lot more modern as were the shops and a lot of car garages. We did a bit of sight seeing before we went to our accommodation. As ...

It was another early start to travel to Vang Vieng. We were up at 6am to leave at 6.30 and make a quick stop to get a fruit shake, which are my new favourite drink in Asia. There was a bit of confusion about the bus pick up time and location so after waiting a while and being told we wouldn't be stopping for four hours me and Rosie ran back to the market to get a banana and Nutella crepe. So we started on the bus journey and were offered two routes, the old roa...