Hey people, Just a quick message to let you all know it's our last night in Luang Prabang and we're getting the 8am bus to Vang Vieng tomorrow. We will hopefully arrive around 2pm. The reason I say hopefully, is that we have to travel route 13. And no, I'm not just being superstitious here, there have been repeated ambushes on this stretch of road by armed gangs and there were around 50 deaths in 2003 alone. It is however, the only plausible route so we're ...

Sabah Dii from Laos! After Chiang Khong we were up at 7:30am for our bus at 8am to the Laos Border. From there we caught a boat across the river to Laos where passport control etc were. Next was a bus further down the river to climb aboard (we had to cross a plank and everything) the slowboat taking us to Pak Beng. 7 l-o-n-g hours later we finally arrived, and were lead to Done Villa Sak Guesthouse (well, after I'd fallen over getting out the boat, BUT, I di...