Whilst in Luang Prabang, we decided to visit an elephant sanctuary, so along with Fran and Graham, we headed to Elephant Village Sanctuary & Camp. Our guide for the two days was Joy, or as we like to call him, Peewee. He was tiny, bless him, but always lived up to his Joy name and never stopped smiling. Once there we got on our elephant Mae Cot, along with our Mahout (elephant trainer) Mr Pan, and took a stroll along the river. Rachel would be happy to admi...

After a restless night fighting of giant mutated cockroaches (ok, it was just the one cockroach, but it was huge!) we got on a long boat to take us down the Nam Ou River, joining up to Mekong River to our next destination, Luang Prabang. The journey took about 6 hours, not including the stopover at Tham Ting Buddha Cave. The cave is filled with literally thousands of Buddha statues, ranging from a few centimetres high to, well, the very big. Sarah was not able ...