Time to head into Vietnam! We wanted to start our tour of the country in the northwest - Sapa to be more precise, and we had a choice of how to get there; 1) Fly to Hanoi (northeast) from Luang Prabang, then bus/train overnight to Sapa - the easiest, less adventurous and more expensive option. 2) Take the 24 (or more likely 30) hour bus to Hanoi and then double back on ourselves by overnight train/bus - 30 hours on a bus in one go, no thank you very much. So that...

We had a lovely few days chilling out in Luang Prabang making sure our batteries were fully charged ready for our journey across the border into Vietnam. Sorting out our visa for Vietnam took a matter of minutes and once again, we were passport-less for a few days. Luang Prabang is a lovely quiet town, it's a UNESCO world heritage site as well which makes it very popular, but it was still very quiet when we were there. We spent some time walking around the ...

We made it up to Konglor village with little incident and managed to team up with an Italian guy to share the boat ride through the cave (max of 3 to a boat, so worked well!). Having left ThaKhek at 7.30am, we made it to Konglor in time to get one of the last boats through that afternoon, meaning we would be able to leave on the 7am bus to Vientiane the next day…we've been putting in some serious bus hours recently and it's beginning to hurt (literally - the bu...

We stayed in Tad Lo for another few days trying to gather up the energy to move on and they were a little bit more productive than the previous days; we finally made it to the waterfalls to cool off and it was so refreshing - why hadn't we done this every day?! There was fun with trying to do our hand washing as well - being the dry season, there isn't much water coming down the river, so naturally just as we got through a few clothes - the water ran out! So we...

Very very quiet Savannakhet - surprisng as it's the 2nd largest city in Lao!