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 ...

We all had a great time at the elephant camp watching the ellies pratcing their logging skills, having a bath and feeding them loads of bananas and sugar cane. I have fallen in love with the baby ellie which i'm pretty sure had a character complex and thinks it's a dog. We unintentionally managed to hitch hike back from the Ellie camp to Chaing Mai, whilst waiting for the bus on the side of the dual carriage way a car pulls over and says he's going to Chaing Mai...

Well you will all be pleased to know but not half as pleased and relieved as us that we are now finally in Thailand!!!!! 1st impressions are that we are going to love, love, love this country. It's a million times different to India, thank God. Clean streets, lovely people, no way near as smelly, better food (if you hadn't guessed alot of our time and decisions revolve around what to eat and when so having a good choice is vital!) Bangkok is an awsome place and...

We decided to stay in a little town called Laxmanjula which is in an area of Rishikesh. We had a little quarrel with the rickshaw driver as he decided to drop us 7km short of where we'd asked and wanted 100rps more, this didn't go down well with Roger or Steve and a discussion started... this proceeded for about 40 mins with neither side backing down until a friendly Czech man who was unfortunate to share the rick shaw with us (having thought we'd saved him from ...