I'd like to say thanks to all the s*&t heads who decided to have a drunken conversation about lesbians and Irishmen outside or hut at 3am when i'm due to be on a 7hr bus at 8.30am, it's appreciated! Grumble over. The journey was fine and hardly anyone on the bus so Jen and i spread ourselves out, enjoyed the mountainous scenery and managed to nod off now and then. Phonsavan is North Eastern Laos known for the plain of jars whic is the most important pre-hist...

The minibus to Vang Vieng took 8hrs instead of 5, oh well kind of used to this now! Vang Vieng has everything you could possibly want, trekking, caving, rock climbing, canoing, blue lagoons for swimming, loads of lounging/hangover bars showing endless episodes of friends, simpsons, family guy and movie but the number one attraction is TUBING!! We left our tubing experince for Christmas Day, having now met up with our mates met in India, Dan and Jen, our tubing ...

The border crossing was painless but figuring out the money was a little bit of a headache, everything is in thousands of Kip ( at time of writing this it's about 12,600 to the pound) so our first tuk tuk ride was in the region of 40,000 kip how the F*&k do we work it out, only just got used to Bhat. We planned to get the slow boat from the border to Luang Prabang which meant 2 whole days on a boat with an over night in the village of Pak Beng. The boat was ...