After being shaken awake by Larry, I didn't have a clue what was going on. It was 6:30am and the bus was stopped. We were in Pakse. We met the Dutch pair outside and after successfully negotiating our way around a persistant tuk-tuk driver we walked the half hour stroll into town. Finding a place L and I set off to get motorbikes. and by 9:30 am we had a bike and after persuading the woman I could ride a manuel bike (semi-automatic), I had a practise ride and L j...

With Sanne bashing away on our door we weerily awoke. Agreeing to meet up in half an hours time, we showered and compared our obtuse dreams, which seemed to be based around Laos type events. Sanne and Johannas bus was setting off at 12ish, so we headed off for our last meal together. With a choce of breakfasts from all corners of the globe - OZ, UK, USA, Japan etc. For the first time on our travels the rain fell at an inconvinent time. So getting a bit wet we wan...

Day 21 Day 22 Meeting up with the girls we got some bicycles. After a bit of hagling I got a girls bike because it had a basket on it. We set off, paying for a toll bridge, we crossed two rivers. The roads then got a bit more nasty. Large puddles, gravelly, rocky, no asphalt. And as my feet were messed up it was fairly hard going. Sanne showed us why the Dutch are known for their bikes as she was breezing through the roads. On the way we met a man who told us n...

Day 1 We got to the train station having been driven by a lad of a taxi driver. We arrived in good time, grabbed some food and boarded. We found a carriage marked '2', got to our bunks and put our stuff down. When the ticket inspector arrived, it transpired that we were not in carriage 2 but the second class section and we were shunted down the train. It turned out that another person in our carriage had done the same thing, an Irishman called Eddie, and we troo...

.