After Luang Prabang we began our journey down to Vang Vieng - the capital of Tubing! We spent a good hour arguing with a bloke at the hotel who was trying to tell us that only 9 out of the 11 of us had paid. Eventually he rang someone else at the hotel and it turns out we had all paid! The drive wasn't too bad overlooking the fact that the driver had no concept of using lower gears when going up steep mountain roads. When we arrived in Vang Vieng we found a grea...

Here we are in the second country out of seven that I'll be visiting over the remaining 4 and a bit months! The whole journey down to Luang Prabang was pretty unforgettable. We started by jumping on a minibus from Pai which we were told would take 6 hours to get to the Laos side of the border (Chiang Kong). 8 and a half hours later we arrived at a guest house where we got about 3 hours sleep awoken to a woman shouting "Go to Laos"! We were then driven to the b...