Not much to report from the capital city of Laos. It's a nice city with lots of cute cafes, bars and restaurants. But apart from that there's not much to do. We had a wonder around and went to sit by our pool for a bit but the rain started to come down again. That night we had read in the lonely planet book that this place called I-Beam was a new hip bar and restaurant that did Tapas and Salsa dancing so we headed there. It was really posh and quite expensive but...

We stayed at malany villas right across the road from Sakura bar. The best bar in town! The villa was nice and big but a little out dated and could of been cleaner. The thing to do in Vang Vieng is go tubing and party. So that's exactly what we did. The tubing office has a sign up saying it takes roughly 1.5hours to float down. We started at around 12:30pm. We went with a group of guys from Switzerland, 2 girls from Canada, and 3 girls from Malaysia. We had all...

On this 6 to 7 hour journey through Laos from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng i went through many different emotions. We were traveling in a 12 person mini van that really wasn't equipped for 12. It was at full capacity and was loaded with everyone's backpacks on the roof. Phase 1 - hot and bothered! Me and Kirstie were squished in the the back corner where the air con didn't reach us. It was extremely hot and stuffy and you couldn't move an inch. The van only moves...

We flew from Chiangmai to luang prabang with Lao airlines. We took a bus from the departure gate to our plane. When we saw it everybody started taking pictures! It looked like something out of Six days, seven nights mum haha. Maybe a tad bigger. The airline was really good though and the little plane made it all the way there! At the arrival airport we had to pay a $35 visa arrival fee which me and Kirstie didn't have the money for because we couldn't exchange ou...