Highlights Well the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a blur, so please forgive me for the late update and the fact I can't really remember everything we have done. Anyway, the best bit of Loas was certainly the tubing. Tubing consists of floating down the river for about 5 hours in a big old rubber ring (see the pics). The genius about it is the numerous 'bars' along the river that you stop at along the way for a beer and whatever else takes y...

We took the 3 day slow boat from Northern Thailand to Laos in the hope that it would be a relaxing and peaceful journey from which we could take in the scenery. Instead we were met with a really quite sub-standard boat, into which they crammed about double the max capacity of people. Interestingly, they saw it fill any free space there was in the isle with uncomfortable plastic chairs, so not only was your seating painful, you were pretty much trapped in there fo...