Hi friends and family. Not to much to write about on this blog as Vientiane the capital of Laos is not that interesting, (sorry if you live there)! We sort of knew this before we left as most people we had spoken to had told us that you only really need to spend a couple of days there so that's what we did. We picked up a mini van in Vang Vieng in the morning of the 9th of feb and it took about 3 and a half hours to get there. The journey was fine, not to h...

So we arrived in Vang Vieng on the 4th of Feb and we dumped our bags in the fírst guest house that we could find. It wasn't to bad and had a lovely veranda that over looked the main street. Vang Vieng is a small town and it seemed like it was only there due to tourism but it was nice all the same. We did a quick walk of the place and discovered loads of cáfe's that seemed to play Friends practically all day long, so you could sit their and watch tv whi...

Hi Guys Well we only spent about 3 days in Luang Prabang (Laos) before we headed south towards Vang Vieng. Luang Prabang was completely different to Thailand due to the fact that it was ruled by the French at some point so all the buildings had a real European feel to them. Also the food was nice as the French had obviously passed on their good cooking so we enjoyed our time spent up there. We had a fair few walks around the town looking at all the buildings, lo...