We've been in Vientiane a few days now and the weather has been great. Really hot and not to humid! We've visited the national museum, the Laos equivalent of the arc de triomphe and the presidential palace. The best place we've visited though has to be a place called the COPE visitor centre. It is a charity that helps people affected by unexplored bombs, doing everything from removing the bombs to building prosthetic limbs for people who have been disfigured by t...

Yesterday we decided to hire bikes and cycle the 7km to a place called the Blue Lagoon. The cycle ride was interesting to say the least as it was less of a road and more of a rocky path, which would have been ok except that this made it really hard work and the temperature had gotten over 30 degrees. We eventually made it to the lagoon however and it was fantastic! It was some of the bluest water I have ever seen and had a good selection of rope swings and trees ...