There really isn't much to say about Loas's capital city. We got to stay in a lovely hotel and ate some good food and chilled out. But as for things to do, I wish that we had stayed a little bit longer in Vang Vieng, but we did have to come here in order to cross the bborder in Thailand. The one random thing that did happen here was that Candy and I ran into big Pete when we went for lunch just before we left tpo get our cockroach infested sleeper train. Which m...

Today was a really long day, full of travelling. We arrived at the China - Las border and got through much quicker than we expected as we all still needed to get our Visas. The journey was made much quicker by the stunning scenery that was all around us from the point that we left our last hotel to the point that we arrived at our new one in Luang Nam Tam. Even though this is the first place that I've seen in Laos I fell in love with this country straight away. ...

I absoloutely loved this town! I didn't like it at first because it had so many westerners around that it felt like it was too commercial especially as everywhere you turned there was more and more friends that was being played! The first night that we arrived here we only had time for our bearings as during the day we had a 9/10 hour long bus journey (on a very small bus) but we kept ourselves entertained through cards and various out of tune sing songs. We als...

Today started with a really long bus journey in a tiny bus! I was really lucky though and managed to get a decent seat so I didn't find it as bad as others. It was good fun though, full of sing alongs, card games and just looking at the more amazing scenery out of the window. When we arrived in Luang Prabang it ws fairly late. Me and Candy lucked out and somehow managed to get the biggest room. We were still cosy though because whilst we're in Loas we are both p...