We arrive into Pakse at 5:30-6am and wait at the station for a couple of hours talking to a Spanish girl who has been in Thailand for a while learning Thai Massage. The bus leaves Pakse at about 7:30. This driver beeps at absolutely everything we drive past so it's impossible to sleep, that and they are blasting out air con so it's so cold! Luckily I have by sacred blanket I took from the aeroplane to keep me warm! At 11am (approx.) we make io the Ferry port to...

Rikka finally gets back to the room at 8am, after getting too drunk last night. Lay in bed chatting until almost 10am while I update journal and Rikka has a shower. Check out at 11ish and go to the place we went to watch friends the other day. Have fruit & yoghurt but still not very hungry so I didn't eat it all. Quickly buy a tubing top and hen jump on a bus (so hot) which only takes us to the bus stop to get on another bus - we get 2 seats each so get to...

Wake up at about 8 and just laze around doing nothing until about 11am! Get up and go out for breakfast at a little place overlooking the river and towards the mountains, on cushion tables raised from the floor. Rikka and I book our bus to the 4000 Islands which leaves tomorrow and costs 230,000kip. Go get our tubes for a day of tubing and take a Tuk Tuk up to the first bar. Play volley ball with some girls and spend about an hour around here before getting in t...

Wake up at 7am again and get ready. Head out at 8 for breakfast but the man has already arrived to take us to Vang Vieng. We get in the van with André and Thiago and we are on the way. Before we leave Luang Prabang we pick up 3 French girls. Everyone is quite squished in but we are on the way AGAIN. About 30 minutes outside Luang Prabang we stop to pick someone else up. This someone else turned out to be 4 people, a lady with 3 children who squeezed into the fr...

Wake up at 7am and take a quick shower. At 8 go down stairs to Coconut restaurant for breakfast - I don't have anything as I've has a bad stomach. So bad that we decide to ask to transfer our journey to Vang Vieng to tomorrow. Get back into bed and sleep for another 2 hours, wake up again at 11ish. We decide to head out to Utopia and on the way we stop to buy stamps for our postcards. The post office however is only open 5-10pm! Get to Utopia at 12 and order so...