It's time to move on from all this drinking as it is getting like too much hard work and also I have heard that my next destination, Luang Prabang is a lot more relaxed and you don’t feel like you have to go out drinking all afternoon and evening and that there are some places to go and visit.

I had booked the bus yesterday with the reception at SpicyLaos for around £4 and it will pick me up at the hostel today and take me 6 hours to Luang Prabang. Pick up was supposed to be at 10am this morning but they arrived 20 minutes early while I was still packing, so had to quickly stuff everything on my pack and get moving. After picking up my bag from being on the floor in the tree house it was kind of damp and starting to get mouldy. Definitely time to go.

The bus was full to the brim and included lots of local people as well as some tourists and even when it was full it still stopped and picked up more people, and as there were no free seats, they were given little plastic stools to sit on in the aisles! I ended up with a local woman sat next to me on the bus who spent the entire journey being sick in a plastic bag. I could sit there listening to her all the way, so I put on my iPod and listened to some music.

The journey from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang was probably one of the scariest bus journeys that I have ever been on. The road went through the mountains and there were many sharp bends which it felt like the bus driver had us up on two wheels as he swung round them without slowing down in order to keep the momentum going up the hills. After a while I had to stop looking out of the window as there was nothing between us and a sheer drop most of the time and it scared me just watching out of the window. So the iPod got changed from music to a film and I sat a watched a film for the remaining time of the journey.

One thing that was strange while on the bus was when we stopped half way from a toilet break and some refreshments, a Laos guy got off the bus carrying what looked like an eagle or a hawk under his arm, untied it’s legs and let it hop around for a while. Then when it was time to leave, he just picked it up, tied it’s lags again and got back in his seat. I am glad I had the sick woman next to me and not a big bird trying to peck me all the way!!!

When we arrived at Luang Prabang, I had arranged with the hostel for them to pick me up at the bus station and there was also a girl on the bus called Lauren from Canada who also got the same transfer to the hostel.

After checking in to our dorm room, Lauren and I went out to find an ATM and then went for a walk around the town so that we could see what was around. While out in town we stopped and had some dinner in one of the many restaurants there and then headed back to the hostel where we met up with the other guests, some of which I had met previously in Vang Vieng, "tubing".