Well after the 'epic' journey (never-ending and bone-aching more like) and a scary cross across the border (who knew we were illegal immigrants for the day?!) we finally made it into Laos! Laos must be the most laid back country ever, the people just dont really care about anything, most of them seem to be just chilling all the time, how they live I dont know! The country itself is as laid back as the culture, being flat as a pancake apart from the odd mountains...

From Ko Tao to Vientiane...the epic journey!! Ok so not that epic..but it was bloomin long. We hopped on a boat from Ko Tao ( *sobs* didn't want to leave) over to Chumpong. Hung around there for a bit waiting for our 'VIP' bus to Bangkok. The bus we got on was so quiet that we settled ourselves in with a double seat each..sprawled out all our bits for the journey, only to be told 5 mins later we were to get off to get on another bus, which was full!! Had to sit ...