Howdy! So we left Luang Prabang on Monday evening for Vang Vieng....which meant we had to embrace another journey on the joyous Laos buses! The journey was meant to take 6hrs, so obviously it took 10hrs instead, but the best thing about the whole journey was the bus itself - it was like a luxury limosine compared to the last one! It was something straight out of 1998 with curtains and material on the seats (as opposed to the lovely faux leather stuff) but the be...

Well....There's a phrase; words cannot describe...which essentially sums up the entirity of our somewhat comedic but in parts life threatening (Laura thought so anyway) journey from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang! The first bit was fine from Chiang Mai to Chiang Khong. Air con bus, own seat, seatbelt, average road infrastructure...genius! However after our stay in Chiang Khong for the night; think hut with ply wood walls and you get the picture as to that night's ...