Well we've made it to Luang Prabang from Vang Vieng and we were both a little sad leaving. Our minibus took 6 hours and the driver drove like a snail, going uphill tumbleweed would drift past us and other minibuses that were due to depart after us took us at the halfway point. Oh well better to be safe than sorry!!! We made a pit stop in a random restraunt, it had a counter that had dry meat that I suppose was fresh only a few hours ago and a random monkey tied t...

Ah Vang Vieng, we think one of the most lovely places we've been so far! We arrived on a bus full of westerners, everyone seemed to have the same lonely planet so when we got off the bus we just followed every one else! We were going to head into the main town but when we stopped breifly to adjust our bags we noticed some accomodation down by the river, we ventured down and found a lovely little resort place with little wooden huts with balconies! Because it is l...

We decided to enter Laos from the freindship bridge border straight to Vientiane rather than take a 2 day slow boat from the north. It was a bit of a long winded journey to get there from Chaing Mai, we had to take an overnight bus to Khon Kaen which was really overcrowded and stunk! Then we got a train from Khon Kaen to Nong Khai (the border) The train was really cute it was quite small and I got to see rural Thailand unfortunately Kam didn't as he spent mos...