okay- we are now on the west coast in Ko Lanta. we just arrived yesterday and its beautiful. we spent a week in Koh Tao. that was amazing as well. we spent 2 days diving and the rest just hanging about on the beach. the weather was perfect. we then came over to Krabi for the night and took the boat out to Ko Lanta. we are diving tomorrow again. we are going to a spot called Ko Ha. there will hopefully be some whale sharks and huge manta rays!!! well gotta go f...

now in Chaing Mai. we came from the increbibly long but should be the last bus trip we will go on!!! so we crossed the Mekong from Huay Xai, Laos into Chiang Khong, Thailand. we chilled out a bit in Chiang Khong while we waited for our van later that evening. met a great English guy and had a few beers and some good chat with him. arrived here, went directly to bed, we not even dsturbed by the thousands of fireworks going off all night. we walked about town our...

we have been in luang prabang for a few days now. Vang Vieng was amazing. it was so beautiful. we arrived pretty late our first night, so we went for dinner and had the largest pizzas ive ever had. was a little sick the next day. but on our first whole day we went on the infamous tubing trip down the Nham Song river. you just walk up to this little shack with tons of intertubes, pay for which length you want, we went with the 8 km trip, and they drop you off at t...

we are on our way to Vang Vieng in a couple of hours. we left the 4,000 islands (S i Phan Don) and had to stop back in Pakse for a few hours till our overnight bus ride to the capital, Vientiane. we stayed on Don Det island. we arrived at around 10 am, and it was incredibly hot. we walked to the north of the island to find our guesthouse. the island was very small and very quiet. the endangered "irrawaddy" dolphins apparently live around these islan...

Ok, we are officially in Laos. it was a bit difficult to actually get in, but we are here. we left Phnom Penh and headed up to Stung Treng. we had about $40 US with us and thought we would be able to use the bank, but there was no bank and it was the weekend also. so we were unable to go to Ban Lung, Cambodia. no banks anywhere. so we decided to just go straight to Laos. after paying for transport, dinner last night, our room, etc... we get to the borders. we wer...