I am in love with Laos already! We crossed the border from China into Laos by tuktuk early today, and arrived at our bright blue guesathouse around lunchtime. We pretty much have the entire house to ourselves, so in the afternoon we dragged the couches outside onto the balkcony, everyone gathered around drinking "Beer Lao", exhausted after our bike ride. We rented mountain bikes for the day (quite a step up from our Japanese bikes) and rode through our...