Vientiane, the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, has left us feeling quite bored. It feels like there is nothing worth doing here that can't be done in a day and neither of us feel like sitting about and relaxing, for once. We've seen all the major sights, the golden Pha That Luang (the most important national monumnet in Laos) and Patuxai (Laos' Arc de Triomphe replica) and that was all done on our first morning. The rest of the time has be...

We awoke early Thursday morning, got the short tuk tuk ride to the bus station and we were on our way to Vang Vieng. The road was sealed but bendy, very very bendy. Six hours later we were dumped off at Vang Vieng with sore necks. Vang Vieng is a strange town, it's geared totally to the western traveller. Apart from all the bars that offer their own unique "happy meals" and the ones that show Friends continously, each fighting to be as loud as each ...

Greetings from Laos. When last we wrote we were still in Thailand and now we find ourselves in a different country but still the same friendly people; same same but different. We left Chiang Rai aboard a local bus and 3 hours later we were in Chiang Kong, our final port of call in Thailand. From there we got a short ferry, the word ferry is used very loosely, crossing across the Mekong River and proceeded through the Laos immigration filling all the forms and ...