Well Vientiane has been a place of mixed emotions and experiences. As I said a few days ago about us feeling ill, on arrival in Vientiane, Jace took a turn for the worse and he went from feeling like he was coming down with a cold to not being able to do anything at all. After a trip to the doctors he was told he had Dengue fever which is worse than Malaria and is untreatable. So instructed to rest for a few days we would check on him every few hours to make sure...

Well we have covered a lot of miles in the past few days and have been on the move pretty much all the time. As I was telling you, we were going to check out Pakse and arrived on the 12th October during a day of rain. On arrival at our digs we done some research and found that the most common thing was to arrange a day tour to the Bolaven Plateau that is around 90km north of Pakse. The day tour would cost around $30 each and for what you got for the price we thou...

So we arrived in Laos on the 6th October after a very crammed and bumpy four hour bus ride, followed by a three hour wait for another bus and finally a two hour bus ride over the boarder. At the boarder crossing we were a bit unsure of what we would need to do to get our 30 day visa's to visit Laos and hoped it wouldn't be as longwinded as the Thailand/Cambodia boarder. Turns out that when we got on the bus to take us to the boarder, we simply handed over our pas...

So it has been a few days since you have heard from us as we have been rather busy and a place far from a computer but I will get to that soon. We arrived in Ban Lung on Saturday at around 1pm after the bumpiest and crowded bus trip so far. The mini bus we were on was a twelve seater but in Cambodia they get as many people as they can into one trip, so we had seventeen people aboard the good ship Bumpy Road! We met an Australian bloke called Jace on the bus and s...

We arrived in Kratie yesterday, just, after our bus company told us that we were to wait till we got to the bus station. Little did we know that we had just stopped at the 'bus station' in Kratie which was just the side of the road. We had seen some signs on buildings with Kratie on them so we knew we were in Kratie. So the bus drove on down the road and onto a country road. Now Kratie is a small place and we knew that something wasn't right and asked the conduct...