Vang Vieng 1st May - 5th May 2012 At the beginning Vang Vieng seemed like a stupid idea - Bart was on antibiotics that he could not drink on and all my mossie bites very infected so I was allowed to go in the river, so the first few days we chilled and then we headed out on a motorbike loop for the day but I didn't make it very far. I burnt my leg on the exhaust of Barts bike and then drove to the blue lagoon where we went swimming and then we went into a ma...

Vientiane 27th April - 30th April 2012 Vientiane was very chilled out and a lovely city, we arrived around dinnertime and I managed to get hold of Emily so we went out for dinner. I basically spent the weekend with Emily eating drinking and catching up - it was nice to see someone who knows me and it was just relaxed and chilled. We visited a exhibition on land mines in Laos which was showed truly what the Americans did to Laos during the Vietnam war it was ...

"The Loop" , Laos 23rd - 27th April 2012 We arrived in Tha Keak after midnight and stayed in one of the worst places ive stayed since my travels but it was only for the evening as we planed on going on the bike trip in the morning. We got up to find that the bike company everyone recommends didn't have anymore bikes so we went into town and hired them there, and started off on our journey. Day One: We woke up around 9am and decided to get some breakfa...

4000 Islands, Laos 20th - 23rd April 2012 We woke very early after little sleep due to the bugs again we headed on a tuk tuk to the bus station, only to breakdown on the way there, so we had to pay for a bike man each and get to the station. The bus seemed ok, which was good considering it was going to be a very very long journey. Around 5pm we arrived at the Laos boarder where I paid $1 for a guy on the bus to sort my passport stamps out. Then we headed on ...