Vientiene We arrived in the capital to find that our reservation for a hotel had not been confirmed and they did not have any rooms available! So we found somewhere around the corner that was cheapish and seemed ok. Well let's just say that it was better by day than it was by night! It was just one of places that didn't make you feel safe and was kind of creepy - Jo also noticed a glow-in-the-dark heart on the wall when we turned the lights out which, apparen...

Vang Vieng On advice from some fellow travellers we took a mini van from Luang Prabang to Vientianne; this is because the minivans are able to drive around the landslides which block the road and the larger coaches cannot! Due to the heavy rains the area has had lately the twisty narrow road between Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng have seen many landslides which have blocked the roads and made travelling slow. But, luckily for us we had a fairly uninterrupted jou...

So Luang Prabang.. We took a tuk tuk to our guesthouse, our room was nice a bit small but ok. It was late by the time we got ourselves 'settled', so we dashed out to get some grub. On the main street of LB they have a night market, very similar to the Thailand markets - they sell pretty much everything you could ever possibly want - silk, tee shirts etc. It is Cookie heaven again! The first couple of days in Luang Prabang we just chilled out a bit, mainly wan...

Our journey from Chaing Mai to Chaing Rai and Luang Prabang We reluctantly left Chiang Mai to travel to Chiang Rai on another stylish VIP bus. Again the bus had its very own trolley dolley, (not so glamorous as the last one) but with the really nice reclining leather seats and DVDs (the film was a really random Thai film about ghosts, it scared me abit!), Sarah did say "we could definatley make money in the UK with a bus service like this, it's not like you...