Kel: All I can say is WOW. We've just had the most amazing experience staying with a local Laos village for the night. It's a small community of about 40 families, lots of smiling children, randy roosters and very shy but welcoming people. We got to the village early evening after a long bus journey from Vientiene and started playing with the kids (prob about 30-40 5-10 year olds) straight away . They were so excited. We were the first village stay for them this ...

Matt: This is the first time i have had to sit down at a half decent PC since leaving Japan...so quite a bit has happened. We are now in Luang Prabang in Laos and have covered a fair bit of ground in the last week or so. I think that this is now day 17 of our trip and day 7 of our tour of Indochina. The tour is going relly well and the group is definitely bonding - and chilling out...or getting into "Laos Time". But first to catch up a bit...Japan was ...