On the 5th we travelled to Phonsavan. A tiny little town in Laos famous for 'The Plains of Jars'. These are groups of massive jars placed usually on a hill in the middle of nowhere 3 thousand years ago. We went to visit these jars, which quite frankly is the only thing to do in Phonsavan, to see what was going on. The jars themselves are pretty incredible, the size, how they got them to the sight from the quarry 90km away etc but the main thing about them is that...

We have been on an adventure! Yesterday we went into the jungle to a retired elephent camp where elephants who used to pull logs around now play with tourists. We rode an elephant, she was 48years old and afterwards we feed her bananas right into her mouth - she had a huge, pointy, slimy tongue. We got to stroke her aswell, it was amazing! After the elephant ride we went to a waterfall and had a swim around but it was really cold! Then some lunch before the ...

After spending a couple of days in Vientiane we travelled to Vang Vieng. The journey was not as eventful as the last but I have to say we are getting used to 'random' type transport. For example the bus leaving at 10.30 when it was suppossed to leave at 9, being picked up in one bus then changing to another, booking something that resembles a coach in England and finding that that particular bus doesn't actually exist and infact the bus we will be travelling on...

We are now in Laos! After an 18 hour journey consisting of a sleeper train that btroke down twice and caight on fire (a bit), changing to another train that looked like it had been built in the 1930's, a Tuk Tuk who wanted to rip us off a every turn, a stall next to immigration that took perfect digital photos of you and printed them out on the most sophistacated piece of technology even though the stall itself was made of corrugated iron andf gave you drinks in...