Hello all, So....Laos is amazing.....everyone is sooo friendly and smiley and the kids are the cutest by far!!! Everywhere you go people say 'Saibadee' and wave.....Arrived in Luang Prabang after two days on the slow boat from the border floating down the Mekong River along with a million other backpackers and a giant tarantula in the toilet! Two very lazy couple of days just watching the world go by, drinking Beer Lao and stopping off at villag...

Had a wicked time with Jo, Alex and Charlie....lots of eating, beer drinking, chilling by a hotel pool, and not so much sightseeing. (although amazingly managed to drag ourselves up for the monks again!) After Luang Prabang we caught a local bus further north along with mainly bemused Laos, unknown food stuffs and two toads in a plastic bag. Learnt two new things on the three hour trip...what toads in plastic smell of and how to pee unabashed in public on the sid...